The phrase "proprietary equity" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a company's ownership interest in its assets, as opposed to its liabilities. Example: The company's financial reports showed that its proprietary equity had increased by 10% in the past year, indicating a strong financial position.
Your Vanguard funds will cost a lot less in management fees than Schultz's more exotic fare, which includes proprietary equity pools, known for higher fees.
The main culprit was proprietary equity trading (when the bank uses its own balance to try to make money for itself), which posted a loss of around 100 million euros ($128 million) for the second quarter, compared with 400 million euros ($512 million) in net income a year earlier.
They outlined plans to exit risky businesses like equity proprietary trading, where the firm makes bets with its own capital.
With Mr. Mack in charge, the firm has focused more on hot, lucrative segments like private equity, proprietary trading and hedge funds.
By expanding into private equity, proprietary investing, and commodity trading, O'Neal deliberately exposed Merrill to bigger risks than it had taken in the past.
Mandis worked at Goldman Sachs in the investment banking, private equity, and proprietary trading areas.
Goldman Sachs may be rushing to reorganize or spin off its private equity and proprietary trading units to comply with the newly enacted Volcker Rule.
On returning to run the firm in 2005, after the ejection of the risk-averse Philip Purcell, he declared that it was under-leveraged and needed to push into mortgages, proprietary trading and private equity.
"One of the issues is really going to be going forward trying to understand how this is actually going to affect earnings, because the banks have been very cagey on how much of their earnings generally come from proprietary trading and private equity and hedge fund investing," he said.
The new legislation regulates derivatives trading, and puts restrictions on proprietary trading and private equity investments through the Volcker Rule, and creates a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
President Obama's endorsement of the "Volcker Rule" -- a set of proposals designed to reduce public financial support for risky proprietary trading and hedge/private equity fund ownership by commercial banks and bank holding companies -- has elicited an intense chorus of criticism from bankers, economists and policy makers.
