Companies use the equity method of accounting to report their investments in other entities where they have significant influence but not a controlling interest. Companies use the equity method ...

Startups use SAFEs to receive funding without determining a valuation or issuing equity immediately. Investors invest in the startup, rather than getting shares right away. Their investment ...

Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. Emerging market private equity investment has grown in ...