The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Trading volume for baby bonds is generally thin, so the bid-ask spread -- the difference between the asking price and the offering bid -- may be wider compared to more heavily traded securities. In other words, they're not backed by any underlying assets or collateral.

Due Diligence 100

Due Diligence Investing Bidding Taxes 100

Mr. Money Mustache

JANUARY 29, 2021

This has left several friends who arrived more recently searching fruitlessly and losing the inevitable bidding war for each uninspiring property, over and over again. The only problem was, so was everybody else: a bidding war was already bubbling up and we only had a few days at most to lock it in. You end up with $200,000 invested.

Collateral 53

Collateral Taxes Stock Market Stock Market 53

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

We spent weeks, night and day, studying it, decided it wasn’t a good deal, decided not to bid, which I’m fine with. And then when we decided not to bid at 90, it eventually went up to, you know, 111 or something like that. And you know, so we looked at it very hard, decided not to bid. KLINSKY: Yup.

Leveraged Buyouts 105

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Somehow no one in due diligence ever asked them about any of this. And not being able to tell them or show them makes it harder for them to do due diligence to understand how it may have behaved. And by and by the agreement, I wasn’t, I wasn’t even supposed to be in the equation at all. No one knew who I was.

Returns 59

Returns Mutual Funds Hedge Funds Leveraging 59