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A private company is a company held under private ownership with shares that are not traded publicly on exchanges.
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How does private equity work in a public mutual fund?
A private placement is an offering of stocks or bonds to mutual funds, large banks, pensions, insurance companies and accredited investors (high net worth people). It's an alternative to an IPO for …
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Why would a company prevent their employees from selling their pre-IPO equity?
Typical IPOs tend to have a lock-up period which prevents insiders (founders, employees, venture capitalists) from selling their shares for some amount of time after the IPO. The waiting period tends …
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How can I research some paper shares I found?
Here's an article on How-to-Find-the-Value-of-Your-Old-Stock-Certificate.
The bullet points are:
You will need:
decent knowledge of securities
name of the corporation and transfer agent (both found …
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What is the name for a company formed only to make an investment?
Perhaps this might be what you're after. For the USA, from Wikipedia:
Investment clubs are generally formed as general partnerships, but could also be formed as limited liability companies, limited …
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how to find out if a company has stock/shares to invest in?
Google: "Look up stock symbols"
You'll find lots of web sites that offer free symbol look up. Some popular ones are:
https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup/
https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/look …