The Rise of “Dequity”

Financing Innovation: The Rise of “Dequity”  [caption id="attachment_363" align="alignleft" width="225"] The Risey of Dequity[/caption] I was talking with a banker the other day and he used a term that I hadn’t heard before but made a lot of sense.  He said, they make ‘dequity’ investments.  What he meant was they make loans,…

Sticky Leverage

The WSJ published an article titled “Sticky Leverage” stating that the leverage for companies is continuing to increase. Leverage is defined as a company's debt divided by its cash flow or EBITDA. The WSJ sticky leverage article discusses large companies and large buyout deals but the same is true for…