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eq·ui·ty
/ ˈekwitē/
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n.
(pl. -ties)
1.
the quality of being fair and impartial:
equity of treatment.
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Law
a branch of law that developed alongside common law in order to remedy some of its defects in fairness and justice, formerly administered in special courts.
2.
the value of the shares issued by a company:
he owns 62% of the group's equity.
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(equities)
stocks and shares that carry no fixed interest.
3.
the value of a mortgaged property after deduction of charges against it.
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Equity Income.(Company Financial Information)
Magazine article from: Financial Planning; 5/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...Fund Name Return Return Return Janus Fd Inc-Equity Income Fund 11.97 38.95 N/A Value Line Income Fund 8.03 28.29 22.31 Centura Large Cap Equity C 6.27 16.11 N/A CCB Equity Fund 5.41 18.36 24.56 Mercantile-Equity...
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Private Equity Companies (UK) - Portfolio Analysis - Find Out Which Companies Are Selling At a Loss and Whose Profit Margins Are Plummeting.
M2 Presswire; 7/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...July 2008-Research and Markets: Private Equity Companies (UK) - Portfolio Analysis...researchandmarkets.com/research/c7a06c/private_equity_com) has announced the addition of the "Private Equity Companies (UK) - Portfolio Analysis...
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China Equity Exchange Platform Signs Cooperative Agreements With 32 Regional Exchanges.
PR Newswire; 3/13/2007; 700+ words
; ...BULLETIN BOARD: IMOT) , a leading online electronic equity exchange service provider in China, is pleased to announce that thirty-two equity exchanges in China have entered into Equity Information & Quotation Interchange Agreements with...
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Private Equity Mutual Fund Debuts on Schwab's Mutual Fund OneSource(R) Service.
Business Wire; 3/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...Sub-Adviser Fund Focused on Private Equity Investments DENVER -- ALPS Fund Services...Co., Inc. has added Listed Private Equity Fund as an investment option available...common stock of publicly-traded private equity companies and offers it to investors in...
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Private Equity Fund-Raising Shows No Signs of Slowing with $199 Billion Raised in First Nine Months of 2007.
PR Newswire; 10/11/2007; 700+ words
; October Issue of Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst: Shaky Credit Markets Don't...Despite tightening credit markets, private equity firms continue to find limited partners...funds, according to Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst. The October issue reports that...
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Home equity lending.
Newspaper article from: Federal Reserve Bulletin; 5/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; Home Equity Lending Personal borrowing secured by equity in residential property has become an increasingly important component of household liabilities. Growing equity in homes, aggressive promotions by financial institutions...
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Advanced Equities to Acquire First Allied Securities, Unit of Wells Fargo.
Business Wire; 1/6/2005; 700+ words
; ...quality late stage private equity and additional investment...transaction positions Advanced Equities as a leading participant...subsidiaries, Advanced Equities, Inc. and Round Hill Securities, Inc. Advanced Equities' Capital Markets Group...of late stage private equity financing to ...
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Home equity lending becomes new reality
Magazine article from: Texas Banking; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...years of Texas history by authorizing home equity lending in Texas. Sixty percent of the 1,173,233 voters cast supported home equity lending. We now join the rest of the...to a significant personal asset - the equity in their homes. "We're pleased that...
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Private Equity Council Will Oppose Legislation That Discourages U.S. PE Firms from Going Public.
Business Wire; 6/21/2007; 700+ words
; WASHINGTON -- The Private Equity Council today announced its opposition...that would discourage U.S. private equity firms from offering shares to the public...significantly raising taxes on U.S. private equity firms that seek to offer shares to...
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 "New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)")
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Private equity is best left to the rich.
Newspaper article from: New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand); 4/19/2008; 700+ words
; ...you guessed it, hedge funds and private equity. There, the secret's out - we can...everything else is falling apart. Private equity, on the other hand, borrows billions...course. That's the legend of private equity. Of course, not all of it is pie in...
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Equity Marketing, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...year. Beginnings Equity Marketing ’...incentive firm, Marketing Equities International, which...airlines. In 1984, Equity did its first premium...field. In 1989, Equity was purchased from Marketing Equities by several investors...
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Equity Markets
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...restructuring process. Private equity funds offer opportunities...money into this type of equity. In the context of the internationalization of equity markets, firms are often...firms want to list their equities there. However, this also...
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Equity
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
EQUITY In its broadest sense, equity is fairness. As a legal system, it is a body of law that addresses concerns that fall outside the jurisdiction of common law . Equity is also used to describe the money value of property in excess...
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Generational Equity
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
GENERATIONAL EQUITY Generational equity refers to the concept that different generations should be treated...This entry presents the history of the debate about generational equity, evaluates the evidence that there is conflict between age groups...
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equity
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
equity principles of justice originally developed...early chancellors purported to dispense equity in its original sense of fair dealing...law and from canon law . Soon, however, equity amassed its own body of precedents and tended...
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