Q. Hi Dan. In your last column you wrote about “… a rather infamous provision dubbed the ‘pro-rata rule.’” One of my IRAs is non-deductible, so I need to know what that is and why it’s infamous. Can ...

Pro rata rights or proportional rights let existing investors keep their ownership stake by investing more when a company raises funding. Pro rata rights, sometimes called proportional rights, are ...

Whenever pro-rata rights are involved, you can always smell some drama. When a company raises a financing round, new and old investors often battle it out for the largest stake they can get. While ...