Types Of Private Equity For Basic Understanding

By Aella Abbie

Among the different funds and shareholdings being traded in the stock market, there is a type of funding directed towards handling non-publicly traded shares - the private equity fund. This type of fund is only designed to be used in this manner as a means privately setting up direct ownership without having to be made publicly available.

Unlike publicly traded company, a private equity fund is not publicly traded and is locked primarily for the security of the owners.

There are many connotations when the term private equity fund is used in different stock markets worldwide. While these may be commonly coined as a secure type of stock trading, these are to be clarified further.

One of the more specific types of private equity fund is the leveraged buyout. In this manner, an individual acts as a financial sponsor and creates a funding for a fraction of the company value or shareholdings. As soon as this company value is met, ownership may be transferred to this new sponsor. What is unique in this type of private equity fund is that it does not require the total company asset to be met to transfer ownership, but just that which is equal to the privately owned shares of the original owner plus the added percentage of the total public shareholdings' value.

Venture capital is another type of private equity fund wherein the focus of private investment would be geared towards the projects into research, high value commodities, expansion of business size, restructuring of organizations, entering new markets, and the like. These are usually funded by ultra high valued individuals or financial companies wishing to take part in the potential return of investment on a technological advancement.

The private equity fund known as a growth capital is the similarly opposite scheme of a venture capital. In this private funding, the investors would be infusing direct capital and intervention to boost the growth of the company and improve stock market standings, perhaps even joining other markets as well, with immediate to mediated returns.

For smaller scale investments similar to real estate, infrastructure, energy and power, and merchant banking, there are also private equity fund types best fitting to these financial interventions. Included in these smaller types of private equity fund are land holdings and acquisition for development, development of key areas in terms of road networks and building facilities, utilities for power distribution as primary commodity, and commercial banking.

Private equity fund is a businessman?s security measure in a publicly traded company to retain control and high influence in decision making ownership over the business operations. With a defined guidelines, it can be transferred or modified. - 29969

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