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BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Joshua Goodman |
The Asset Sale of a Lifetime? Argentina's devalued peso has Latin American investment pouring in.   |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Argentina: Can It Go From Bad to Worse? It's hard to imagine how the Argentine economy could get much worse. Argentina's current plight is all the more troubling because only a few years ago the country was hailed as a poster-child for free-market economic reform in developing nations... |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 12, 2003 |
Hard Days and Sleepless Nights for Private Equity Firms Today's business environment is similar in ways to the early 1990s when private equity firms rose up to restructure mountains of bad debt and went on to cash out in the ensuing bull market. But while opportunities exist, it is harder to make deals work than it was a decade ago. |
The Motley Fool
October 23, 2008
Mann et al. |
Read This If You Think the $700 Billion Bailout Is Bad Reports from another week in the emerging markets: No matter how bad it gets here in the United States, we can all take solace in one simple fact: At least we don't live in Argentina. |
BusinessWeek
October 18, 2004
Colin Barraclough |
Investment Repellent Argentina's refusal to deal with jilted bondholders is taking a toll on the real economy. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Grupo Financiero Galicia Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of Argentine banking group Grupo Financiero Galicia soared as much as 26% on news that Argentina's former president, Nestor Kirchner, had died. |
BusinessWeek
May 10, 2004
Joshua Goodman |
For Argentina, Crying Poor Won't Work Anymore Argentina's president wants to pay 25 cents on the dollar to bondholders. But Argentina's economy is red-hot. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Ye Xie |
The Argentina Veterans Eye the Euro Warily Argentina's debt default and currency devaluation offer insights to money managers assessing risk in the euro zone. |
Knowledge@Wharton
April 23, 2003 |
Argentina: A Country Driven to Despair Looks for a President There is now widespread apathy among the people, voters are fragmented and the leading Peronist party is in crisis. In this setting, what type of government will emerge from the upcoming elections? And will it be able to carry out the reforms that the country so desperately needs? |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2011
Esterhuizen & Sellitti |
Foreign Profits: Top 5 Performing Argentinian Stocks This overlooked market offers some interesting opportunities. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
William P. Mako |
Corporate Restructuring in East Asia: Promoting Best Practices A number of East Asian corporations, saddled with debt, nearly collapsed during the financial crisis of 1997. Many have managed to avoid both repayment and restructuring, however, and remain overly indebted and invested in unprofitable businesses... |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003 |
Argentina: Cold Water on Hot Money Argentina is trying to stem the flow of hot money into the country. But the economy might get burned. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Roben Farzad |
Don't Cry for Argentina. The Worst May Be Over Bank stocks are cheap, and political change is in the offing. |
BusinessWeek
December 25, 2006
Joseph Weber |
M&A: An Irresistible Urge To Merge The dealmakers will be working double time in '07, and in virtually every sector. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Brazil: A Heady Mix of World Cup Euphoria, Election Anxiety and Economic Uncertainty While most people agree that Brazil's problems are less severe than Argentina's, there are nonetheless troubling developments in this huge sprawling country. |
BusinessWeek
July 21, 2003
Geri Smith |
Private Equity: Rekindling a Latin Love Affair Funds are again funneling money south, especially into Mexico |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Colin Barraclough |
Argentina: Reversal Of Fortune A surge of service jobs has begun to restore Argentina's middle class. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2003
Joshua Goodman |
Argentina: Playing Hardball With Creditors Bondholders meet with Argentine officials in New York and six other cities in the U.S., Europe, and Japan this week. The talks will revolve around Argentina's call for a draconian 75% reduction in the principal of $87 billion in defaulted bonds. Nobody expects a breakthrough. |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 26, 2003 |
In International Private Equity Deals, Finding the Right Managers Is Key To profit from economic growth abroad, private-equity investors need strong people on the ground to source potential deals and nurture new companies. |
BusinessWeek
March 22, 2004
Geri Smith |
Latin America: It's In Play Again, Too Latin America is again becoming a place to invest in. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
"Venture Capital Has Gone From One Unreality to Another" If one industry has been severely mauled following the twin dot-com and telecom debacles, that industry is venture capital -- or private equity, as it is sometimes called. So what lies ahead for venture capital? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Robert Rennhack |
Banking Supervision Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, like other emerging markets, have experienced banking system difficulties that have hampered growth and generated fiscal costs as high as 10 to 20 percent of GDP and even more. Many countries have improved their banking systems, but further reform is needed. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Ready for the Re Lender restraint helps keep markets stable. |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2010
Geri Smith |
A Proposed Debt Deal in Argentina Sparks a Constitutional Crisis An attempt to pay off creditors sparks a feud with the central bank -- and now a constitutional crisis |
BusinessWeek
February 21, 2005
Colin Barraclough |
No Tears For Argentina Investors in the government's defaulted bonds are furious about a swap offer. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The Lure of Private Equity The fact that private equity deals have become commonplace shows that private equity provides benefits to investors as well as to companies and their corporate managers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 25, 2014 |
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market Finance Professor Laura Alfaro, who served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica, recommends a radical solution sure to anger banks and fund managers: absolute sovereign immunity. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004 |
A Mexican Standoff In Buenos Aires Will holders of Argentine bonds get an acceptable deal, or be left out in the cold? |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Blackstone's Bankless Future What a difference a year has made in the private equity business. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Chile: A Beacon of Prosperity in a Turbulent Region Chile has chugged along. At a time of global frailties, its economy is healthier today than it has been over the past five years. What is behind Chile's success and can it be sustained? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Pedro Pou |
Argentina's Structural Reforms of the 1990s Argentina experienced serious economic and financial difficulties in the 1980s. Hyperinflation in 1989-90 finally elicited the necessary political consensus for reform. Despite areas of concern, structural reforms implemented in the 1990s have set Argentina on the path to sustained growth. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005 |
Book Reviews And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina by Paul Blustein... Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering by Peter Reuter and Edwin M. Truman... etc. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
Hot, Hot, Hot Private equity is the talk of the town, but there is nothing particularly easy about getting into top-tier funds. |
Entrepreneur
May 2006
David Worrell |
Sound Structure There are plenty of strategies you can use to fund your business's growth. The trick is picking the one that suits your company best. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Towards Greater Transparency in Real Estate Private Equity Funds An innocuously titled paper, "Real Estate Private Equity Funds," is forcing real estate companies to take a hard look at greater transparency and standardization in their disclosures and also to work towards establishing performance benchmarks. |
Inc.
November 1, 2000
Jill Andresky Fraser |
Giving Credit to Debt You may think of debt as a drag on your business. But that's not necessarily how the experts see it... |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
Collapse in Cancun: The World Trade Agenda Gets Sidetracked Despite a recognition that free trade in theory leads to greater global prosperity, participants at Cancun fell into two general, and opposing, camps. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009
Maria Bartiromo |
Steve Schwarzman Starts Warming Up The author talks to Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman about the state of the private equity market, changes on Wall Street, and the outlook for various types of investments. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Neil Gregory & Stoyan Tenev |
The Financing of Private Enterprise in China A 1999 survey of more than 600 private Chinese enterprises revealed that they relied primarily on self-financing. For China's private sector to thrive, firms will need increased access to external loan and equity financing... |
Investment Advisor
August 2005
Kathleen M. McBride |
Discovering Emerging Yield When you think of emerging markets, a conservative approach may sound like a paradox, but it's one way to describe the $347 million T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund (PREMX) and its manager, Mike Conelius. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2007
Tom Taulli |
The VIP Ticket to a Buyout Deal Private equity firms are allowing shareholders to take part in mega-buyouts. Despite the advantages, investors need to realize that equity stubs are fairly rare for public shareholders. |
Bank Technology News
March 2002
Daniel A. Joelson |
Latin America Uncovers Internet Banking Leaders Economic conditions won't bury the growth of online banking in the region... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Czechmate, Or the Pitfalls of Rapid Privatization in Emerging Economies In his forthcoming book, Gerald McDermott offers a new explanation for why the Czech Republic and other emerging markets, which try to eliminate state involvement and undergo rapid mass privatization, may achieve only short-term or illusory economic success... |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Gail Edmondson |
A Red Carpet For Americans As the pickings in the U.S. get lean, private equity groups have discovered that Europe is the land of opportunity. |
FDIC FYI
February 13, 2002 |
The Twenty Five Largest Banking Companies: Taking Stock of 2001 Credit quality concerns at large banks took center stage in a year that saw the onset of recession, the September 11 attacks, the Argentine financial crisis and the bankruptcy of Enron, according to FDIC analyses released today... |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Emil Lee |
Understanding a Bank's Balance Sheet A bank's balance sheet is different from that of a typical company. In the first part of an investment series, we untangle a bank's assets. |
The Motley Fool
November 13, 2008
Liz Peek |
This Is Where Investors Are Profiting Credit markets may be tight, but some deals are still being made, and risk arbitrage investors are capitalizing on it. |
Inc.
November 1, 2000
Ilan Mochari |
How to Take Stock If you're thinking about taking equity instead of cash as payment for services, here's a checklist of things to consider... |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Defying the Bubble Babble A home equity line of credit can still be a good plan to pay off higher-interest debt. Here are some other options, too. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Private Equity's Nuclear Winter The Home Depot supply unit transaction is an example of what is happening in the private equity game. Lean times have arrived for Wall Street dealmakers, with private equity firms abandoning current deals and becoming gun-shy for future ones. |
