Sentence examples for super return from inspiring English sources
THIS week: Warren Buffett's shareholder letter and the 2015 Super Return private-equity shindig.
"My worry is that before the euro zone finally acts together, a major financial institution in Europe may fail," he said at the Super Return International conference.
BERLIN – For private equity managers in search of investors, networking at the Super Return conference in Berlin is an exhausting process.
THE Super Return conference draws its name and much of its mythology from happier times in the world of private equity.
Yet at this week's buoyantly named "Super Return" conference, the mood among private-equity and sovereign-wealth types was unusually demure.
"Super Return means Super Exploitation," they complained.As if in reply, dealmakers are now keen to stress that the non-financial returns to private equity are also super.
On the other hand, few teams can point to one draft that yielded Super returns the way the Chicago Bears can.
But those super returns were based on ideal conditions: a strong economy, low interest rates and rising stockmarkets in which to sell their investments.Now, with interest rates up and stockmarkets down, the outlook is different.
As the Super Returns flow in from various Super Precincts around the country this Super Tuesday, your stalwart hosts here at The Economist are preparing to get their democracy on, sifting through the infoglut to provide illuminating analysis, like a lone candle in the dark of this demon-haunted world.
Yet if companies fail to get their accounts signed off by their auditors (or if they are qualified in any way) they may be in breach of their covenants.Amid such gloom, private-equity firms have given up hope of earning super returns over the short term and most just want to nurse their companies through the downturn.
Speaking of which, your humble servant expressed doubt about private equity and how it could keep making super returns by basically picking up a penny on the sidewalk, shining it up and selling it for a nickel, and then the next guy does the same and sells it for a dime.
