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2013 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook - Q2 Update
The report is focused on the $725 billion industry and forecasts equipment investment and capital spending.
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Business Aircraft - Gaining Altitude
This study addresses the opportunities and challenges facing lessors, lenders, investors, and customers of the business aircraft market.
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The Indirect Equipment Finance & Leasing Markets: Relationships between Larger Intermediaries and Their Purchasing Partners
The study specifically investigates the current business environment for larger intermediaries that sell at least fifty percent of their business to purchasing partners including banks, larger lessors and commercial finance companies.
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Journal of Equipment Lease Financing Spring 2013 Issue
The Spring 2013 issue features articles on leasing for alternative energy, predictive analytics, and the indirect originations market.
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Efficiencies in the Indirect Market
Since the recession, larger intermediaries and their purchasing partners had to re-establish themselves as viable participants in the indirect markets. As a new Foundation study shows, they must implement greater efficiencies at every level of the process
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Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Decisionmaking
Predictive analytics, a component of business intelligence, represents another step forward in equipment leasing and finance companies’ quest to exploit the increasingly large amounts of information available to them.
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Using Leasing Techniques to Facilitate Distributed Solar Projects
Equipment leasing techniques played a key role in driving the growth of solar photovoltaic installations in the U.S. However, as key federal subsidies sunset, continued innovation will be vital to expand the market’s capacity to finance these projects.
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