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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Commodity Hedge Fund Definition: A commodity hedge fund buys and sells futures contracts and other derivatives based on mining, energy, power, and agricultural products and earns profits via fundamental and technical analysis; the trading may be systematic, discretionary, or both. If you deliver 5,000 bushels, that’s a profit of $5,000.

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Debt or Equity? Making the right choice at the right time

Wizenius

1) Apple: In 2013, Apple issued a $17 billion bond to return cash to shareholders and avoid repatriating overseas profits and incurring taxes. Apple's credit rating was AA+ from S&P and Aa1 from Moody's, which allowed it to borrow at a low interest rate. The 10-year US Treasury yield in April 2013 was around 1.7%.

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Physician Practice Acquisitions: A Primer on Hospital & Private Equity Consolidation

InvestmentBank.com

While hospitals can profit from alignment with physician practices, some argue that physician practices also benefit from this relationship given the greater resources and income generating opportunities available to them [17]. Is Healthcare’s M&A Trend Softening? Retrieved May 20, 2019, from [link] [3] Bees, J. 2019, May 2).

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Healthcare 2021: Trends, M&A & Valuations

InvestmentBank.com

Most facilities are owned by private sector businesses while other community hospitals are either non-profit, for-profit, or government owned. Government funded programs include Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Veterans Health Administration. Lee & Robert S. John Torinus, Why U.S.