In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

In July 16, 2008, after Zucker's death, the company was sold to NRDC Equity Partners, a private equity firm of Purchase, New York which already owned Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store chain in the United States.

Kangol has been owned by Sports World since 2006, when they acquired the brand from private equity fund, August Equity Trust.

The IFC Capitalization ( Equity ) Fund holds $ 1. 3 billion in equity, while the IFC Capitalization ( Subordinated Debt ) Fund is valued at $ 1. 7 billion.

The Employment Equity Act and the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act aim to promote and achieve equality in the workplace ( in South Africa termed " equity "), by advancing people from designated groups.

Criticisms continued, the most famous being 17th century jurist John Selden's aphorism: ‘ Equity is a roguish thing: for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.

After lengthy negotiations, on February 1, 2005, the Nigerian and Sao Tomé governments entered into an exploration and production sharing agreement over the first of six different exploration blocs with a US dominated consortium led by ChevronTexaco with 51 % of the equity, ExxonMobil with 40 % and Dangote Energy Equity Resources, a small Nigerian and Norwegian company with the remaining 9 %.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

Equity is also known as owner's equity.

# Statement of Changes in Equity: explains the changes of the company's equity throughout the reporting period

In Story on Equity third English edition 1920 page 34 ," where a rule, either of the common or the statute law is direct, and governs the case with all its circumstances, or the particular point, a court of equity is as much bound by it as a court of law, and can as little justify a departure from it.

Equity has come not to destroy the law but to fulfill it, to supplement it, to explain it .” Every jot & every title of law was to be bayed, but when all this had been done yet something might be needed, something that equity would require & that was added by equity.

Equity respected every word of law & every right at law but where the law was defective, in those cases, equity provides equitable right & remedies.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

According to an updated 2011 ranking created by industry magazine Private Equity International ( published by PEI Media called the PEI 300 ), the largest private equity firm in the world today is TPG, based on the amount of private equity direct-investment capital raised over a five-year window.

Additionally, Preqin ( formerly known as Private Equity Intelligence ), an independent data provider, ranks the 25 largest private equity investment managers.

The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (" EVCA ") publishes a yearbook which analyses industry trends derived from data disclosed by over 1, 300 European private equity funds.

In 2004 there were 26 investors in the average private equity fund, this figure has now grown to 42 according to Preqin ltd. ( formerly known as Private Equity Intelligence ).

In the United Kingdom, the second largest market for private equity, more data has become available since the 2007 publication of the David Walker Guidelines for Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity.

* Private Equity Growth Capital Council – advocacy organization for the private equity industry

The company was acquired by private equity firm Platinum Equity for an undisclosed amount of cash in 2005, believed to be between US $ 30 million and US $ 50 million.

Equity options are the most common type of equity derivative.

* Equity market neutral: exploits differences in stock prices by being long and short in stocks within the same sector, industry, market capitalization, country, which also creates a hedge against broader market factors.

* Equity market-the 8th largest in the world ( based on free-float market capitalisation ) and the 2nd largest in Asia-Pacific, with A $ 1. 2 trillion market capitalisation and average daily secondary trading of over A $ 5 billion a day ;

* Equity risk: the risk that one's investments will depreciate because of stock market dynamics causing one to lose money.

For example, if someone interested in the Vodafone stock listed in London market, one enters VOD LN < Equity > < GO > where VOD is the company's ticker, and LN is the venue code for London.

Most of them are aimed at the rental market and managed by Melbourne Inner City Management ( MICM ), a division of Central Equity.

Total return swap, or TRS ( especially in Europe ), or total rate of return swap, or TRORS, or Cash Settled Equity Swap is a financial contract that transfers both the credit risk and market risk of an underlying asset.

It also has Capital Adequacy Ratio ( CAR ) of 23 % ( including market risk ), Return on Asset ( RoA ) of 0. 71 %, and Return on Equity ( RoE ) of 7. 38 %.

In July 2009, Lazard acquired the management vehicle of Chicago-based middle market Private Equity Firm The Edgewater Funds.

* Brand Equity ( Weekly ): a weekly colour supplement that appears every Wednesday, which covers marketing, advertising, media and market research.

The company's value reached IR £ 27 million, but the low turnovers in the video rental market meant that there was no cash to continue their huge expansion — up to 10 new stores a week — and the company became insolvent with its shares valued at 1 / 8 of a penny on its sale to Cambridge Investments, who in turn went bankrupt and the business was sold for IR £ 12m to a consortium of Montague Private Equity, 3i, and the partners behind NCV ( a local wholesaler of videos, etc ..).

On August 28, 2006, federal and state securities regulators and the Department of Justice announced parallel settlements and a total of $ 600 million in monetary sanctions against Prudential Securities, Inc. ( now known as Prudential Equity Group ) for misconduct relating to improper market timing.

He continues to operate in the IT Service Management market with continued investments through his venture capital firm JMI Equity.

* Equity market

Equity issuance can involve a private sale, in which the transaction between investors and the firm takes place directly, or publicly, in which case the firm has to register the securities with the authorities and the sale takes place in an organized market, open to any registered investor, a process more akin to an auction.

# REDIRECT Market neutral # Equity market neutral

Equity risk is the risk that one's investments will depreciate because of stock market dynamics causing one to lose money.

Zell's company Equity LifeStyle Properties, the largest mobile-home landlord in the United States, has been criticized for working to eliminate rent-control laws in local municipalities so that they can raise rents on their tenants to market rates.

Venture Capitalists and Private Equity professionals have long used the First chicago method which essentially combines the income approach with the market approach.

According to Preqin ( formerly known as Private Equity Intelligence ), in 2006 funds investing in other private equity funds ( i. e., fund of funds, including secondary funds ) amounted to 14 % of all committed capital in the private equity market.