Still, if you count the dividends, fees and other proceeds we've received, there's a view we could get our money back by flogging the rest of our stake for 8.4p a share.
The company has been able to claim money back from the taxman despite passing £3.25bn in dividends and fees to its parents, Deutsche Telekom and Orange (previously France Télécom), during its lifetime.
Her comments were in response to a Guardian investigation published on Wednesday, which reveals that three of the UK's four networks are paying little or no corporation tax while sharing billions in dividends, management fees and royalties with their multinational owners.
OMG coin owners will be able to make money — like a dividend — by earning fees from validating transactions that occur on the Omise Go network.
While Monomoy is undoubtedly a better example of most private equity middle-market deals done with little leverage, it operates in a different universe from the megafirms, where high management fees, dividend recaps and huge amounts of debt are the rule.
Yet in 2015 the company paid out £1m in dividends, director's fees and profits – money that should have been spent on patient care.
Green and other investors collected £586m in dividends, rent and fees from BHS. Chappell's consortium Retail Acquisitions then banked at least £17m from BHS despite owning it for just 13 months.
The administration may have designed a special levy on banks to recoup the costs of TARP (see article) but it actually stands to make money on its investment in them, from dividends, warrants and fees for never-used guarantees.This picture is incomplete, however.
"Their priorities should firstly be making Arsenal a successful football team, secondly placing no leveraged debt on the club or taking dividends and management fees out of the club, and thirdly helping supporters be directly involved in the club's shareholding".
The "carbon dividend" from this fee would provide an offset of a different sort, one that shields families from the impact of rising energy costs associated with phasing out fossil fuels.
