DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Discount Brokerage, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

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Firms regularly need to raise new capital to help pay for their many investment projects. They can raise funds either by borrowing money or by selling shares in the firm. Investment bankers are generally hired to manage the sale of these securities in what is called a primary market for newly issued securities. An investor selling shares to another is done in the secondary market. A privately held company is owned by a relatively small number of shareholders. Privately held firms have fewer obligations to release financial statements and other information to the public (saves money/less disclosing information). When private firms wish to raise funds, they sell shares directly to a small number of institutional or wealthy investors in a private placement. Private firms may have up to 499 shareholders. When a private firm decides that it wishes to raise capital from a wide range of investors, it may decide to go public.

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