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Voting transparency for individual investors, Life Outside the Top Quartile

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By Tula Connell, Jun 20, 2008 This is really frightening. First, America's workers lose their homes. Or the equity in their homes, or their ability to take out second mortgages to pay for unexpected expenses like a health care crisis. So they turn to credit cards. Now, those cards increasingly are maxed out. What's left? Retirement funds. Remember back when 401(k) plans were introduced as the promised land of personal control over our retirement destiny? ..read more.

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Although individuals own more than 25 percent of US equity, only about 20 percent of such investors bother to participate in proxy voting. Why would so many give up their voting rights? A big part of the reason is the difficulty of researching the issues, says ProxyDemocracy founder Andrew Eggers, who is also a doctoral student in Harvard University's Department of Government. ProxyDemocracy is a nonprofit, non-partisan project that aims to change all that by helping individual .. Keep Reading.

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Posting by Deal Journal Plenty of funds claim to be top-quartile. No one ever trumpets the fact that they bottom-quartile. This month, we thought we would take an unscientific look at the worst-performing private equity funds that publicly disclose their data. We therefore hunted through returns information from four limited partners: California Public Employees' Retirement System; California State Teachers' ..full story.

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Individual investors are also interested in equity funding. This works almost exactly like an equity loan against your mortgage. Equity is established by subtracting any amount you owe from the value of your business. Lenders agree to advancing money in amounts equal to a specific percentage of your equity. Since equity funding is a type of shared ownership, some equity lenders will impose conditions on you. For example, they may want some management control.


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