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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455538303321

Autore

Pedersen Jason A

Titolo

The Wall Street primer [[electronic resource] ] : the players, deals, and mechanics of the U.S. securities market / / Jason A. Pedersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2009

ISBN

1-282-42121-2

9786612421211

0-313-36516-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

332.64/273

Soggetti

Securities industry - United States

Stock exchanges - United States

Investments - United States

Stocks - United States

Electronic books.

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Basics; Chapter 2: The Three Principal Ingredients of a Business; Chapter 3: Seed Capital and Related Matters for Startups; Chapter 4: Early Stage Institutional Capital; Chapter 5: Mid-stage Private Capital; Chapter 6: Later-stage Financing and Investment Bankers; Chapter 7: Late-stage Financings and Private Placements; Chapter 8: Paths to Liquidity for Private Companies; Chapter 9: Considerations for Selling a Private Company; Chapter 10: The Process for Selling a Company; Chapter 11: Initial Public Offerings: Selecting Underwriters

Chapter 12: Initial Public Offerings: Transaction Process and Structural ConsiderationsChapter 13: Initial Public Offerings: Valuation and Marketing; Chapter 14: Initial Public Offerings: Pricing, Trading, and Other Thoughts; Chapter 15: Public Investors and Life as a Young Public Company; Chapter 16: Follow-on Offerings and Liquidity for Insiders; Chapter 17: Acquiring Businesses: Targeting Opportunities to Fuel Growth; Chapter 18: Acquiring Businesses: Valuations, Fairness



Opinions, and the Approval Process; Chapter 19: Business Difficulties and Stock Drops

Chapter 20: Financing Considerations for a Maturing BusinessChapter 21: When Things Slow Down: Creating Shareholder Value and Related Topics; Schematics; Glossary of Selected Terms and Acronyms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How does Wall Street, that great bastion of American Capitalism, really work? This book provides the multifaceted answer to that question clearly, concisely, and on a practical level for anyone seeking to better understand the inner workings of the capital markets. Tracing the dealings of a fictional company from inception to maturity, The Wall Street Primer provides the reader with practical insights on Wall Street and its functions and operations. Written for professionals new to the industry, investors, job seekers, students, brokers and traders, and entrepreneurs and business executives, t