Some nontrivial portion of the recent run-up in price is almost certainly due to this speculative activity, which is fueled by leveraged buying (use of borrowed money).
Key highlights from the submissions included:> Four of the submissions were focused on mHealth and leveraged the use of smartphones and mobile apps, two were devices, and three of them were related to education and communications focused on health issues.
As with leveraged buyouts, the power of private equity, and the wellspring of its remarkable profits, is leverage — the use of borrowed money.
In the last few years, most firms that specialize in leveraged buyouts -- the use of junk bonds, bank loans and other borrowings to buy or take big stakes in companies -- have been largely inactive.
In the merger mania of the 1980's, Kohlberg Kravis did more than any other firm to popularize the leveraged buyout -- the use of huge amounts of debt, typically a mix of junk bonds, bank loans and a little cash, to buy public companies and take them private.
This lesson can then be leveraged to improve the use of the current first line antimalarial drugs in the recommended regimen within the platform of the CCM strategy by targeting caregivers with little or no education in communities where parasitological diagnosis of malaria may not be feasible.
Mr. Llewellyn's use of a leveraged buyout in 1969 to buy Fedco came years before the tactic became commonplace.
This gave a helping hand to hard-hit hotel groups, which are often highly leveraged and use a lot of energy, as well as battered airlines, with heavy bills for fleet finance and aircraft fuel.Many firms made cuts across a broad swath.
Another pet peeve is the media's use of "lightly regulated" and "highly leveraged" to describe hedge funds, which Mr. Redleaf says are "differently" regulated.
Virtually all of these leveraged funds use swaps to track daily returns.
