DealBook » Private Equity Squeezes Out Cash Long After Its Exit | An obscure tax strategy is the latest technique that private equity firms are using to extract money from their companies well after completing an initial public offering.
The obscure tax strategy is the latest technique that private equity firms are using to extract money from their companies, in this case long after the initial public offering.
All that's needed "is one small change to the tax code, or one extension of an expiring tax break, and you easily make back the cost of a lobbying budget if you are a large company.By definition, lobbying is an arcane, almost obscure, investment strategy.
Today, Mr. Aristide echoed the explanations of the electoral council when he said that the scenes of few people at the polls obscured a strategy that was spontaneously embraced by Haitians who remembered the massacre that stopped the 1987 elections.
"Most of them have short track records, obscure trading strategies and few to no adequate benchmarks to compare their performance to," said Milo Benningfield, a financial adviser in San Francisco.
But some investors said they had questioned Mr. Madoff's supposed investment prowess years ago, pointing to his unnaturally steady returns, his vague investment strategy and the obscure accounting firm that audited his books.
If the messages had shown prominent climate change skeptics plotting media strategy, obscuring data, and acting more like lobbyists than scientists, the New York Times would certainly have treated it like the scandal it is.
The Obama administration's Syria policy was so obscure that the strategies had to change repeatedly based on ever-shifting circumstances on the ground.
Its aetiology remains obscure, thus limiting strategies for prevention and treatment of the visual impairment it often causes.
Cameron's own strategy is obscure.
