schmuck insurance

English

Etymology

From schmuck (“fool, idiot”) +‎ insurance.

Noun

schmuck insurance (uncountable)

  1. (business, informal) The situation where an owner sells a company but retains a portion in case the price goes up in the future.
    • 2023 April 5, Byrne Hobart, Capital Gains‎:
      The solution? Instead of selling 100% of the business, the seller either keeps a stake, or keeps an option to buy back part of it later. This solution, which was apparently popularized by Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons in the early 2000s ($, WSJ), is known as "schmuck insurance”.
    • 2011 June 13, Shira Ovide, “The Benefits of Deal 'Schmuck Insurance'”, in The Wall Street Journal‎:
      In Wall Street parlance this is known as "schmuck insurance," a reference to the rather vulgar Yiddish word that has come to mean the equivalent of "idiot."

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