vulture investor

Vulture Investor

1. In venture capital, an investor who buys a company with an excessive amount of debt in the hopes that streamlining and reorganization will make the company profitable. Vultures engage in a high risk, high reward type of investment.

2. An investor who buys an invention from the inventor. The term in this sense is slightly derogatory, as the vulture investor usually profits from the invention while the investor does not.

vulture investor

An investor who attempts to profit by buying debt of bankrupt or credit-impaired companies. Vulture investors are generally interested in the debt of problem companies that hold substantial tangible assets.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor by David L. Scott. Copyright © 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.

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Against this background, the vulture investor attempts to make a profit by speculating in the distressed debt of a sovereign issuer.

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You might have received a letter from a vulture investor back in 1988, with a $.05 bid for your claim against LTV Corporation.

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The situation is similar to vulture investors who bought Argentina's discounted debt and tried to force repayment.

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But so-called vulture investors saw an opportunity to make even larger profits.

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One source said MLB is holding up trading in the loans because of concerns that vulture investors will snap up the debt and force the team into bankruptcy -- just like they did last year to the Texas Rangers.

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