Sentences with phrase «common asset management»

For example, ShareAction, a U.K. - based NGO, and Boston Common Asset Management LLC organized a campaign representing $ 1 trillion in assets under management to implement TCFD recommendations at 60 of the world's largest banks.

In addition, a recent report by Boston Common Asset Management suggested that many banks are starting to perform environmental stress tests — and more than 70 percent of the ones responding to its recent survey about this issue are undertaking them or calculating carbon footprints related to their investment portfolios.

«There's been a big reputation hit for the banks — this has been one of the largest NGO campaigns against the banking industry in recent memory,» said Steven Heim, managing director of Boston Common Asset Management.

The founder and manager of environmental investment funds Walden Capital Management and Boston Common Asset Management;

WASHINGTON, D.C. / / / NEWS ADVISORY / / / Four leading organizations in sustainable investing — As You Sow, Boston Common Asset Management, Green Century Capital Management, and the Investor Environmental Health Network — will hold a phone - based news conference at 1:30 p.m. EST on November 7, 2013 to issue a report scoring 24 top oil & gas companies on their disclosure (or lack thereof) to investors of the key risks associated with hydraulic fracturing operations.

Among other investors to sign the letter were Boston Common Asset Management, Impax Asset Management and EdenTree Investment Management.

Not exact matches

«In Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertainty.

Brookfield Asset Management's common stock has dramatically outperformed both the S&P 500 Index and the S&P / TSX Composite Index.

As COO, he had full responsibility for all Portfolio Management, Investment Research and Office Operations of the firm, designing and developing new products for the firm in the asset classes of preferred shares and common stock, in addition to his responsibility for the firm's Government bond portfolios under management (over $ 1.7Management, Investment Research and Office Operations of the firm, designing and developing new products for the firm in the asset classes of preferred shares and common stock, in addition to his responsibility for the firm's Government bond portfolios under management (over $ 1.7management (over $ 1.7 billion).

Mr. Tom Beers and Ms. Mary Durfee are the joint owners of 100 shares of Class B Common Stock and have given notice that a representative of Clean Yield Asset Management intends to present for action at the meeting the following proposal.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Brought together as part of the Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative, they include the fund arms of insurer Aviva and Norwegian lender Nordea, asset management groups Boston Common and Impax, several Swedish state pension funds and several other charities and ethical investors.

The Committee on Economic Development and Labor includes: · Haejin Baek, President, Barclays Structured Finance · Ruben Diaz, Jr., Bronx Borough President · Jamie Dinan, C.E.O. York Capital · Garry Douglas, Plattsburgh Chamber of Commerce · Hazel Dukes, President, NAACP New York · Rob Dyson, Chairman and C.E.O., The Dyson - Kissner - Moran Corp.; President, Dyson Foundation · James Francis, Founder and C.E.O., Paradigm Asset Management; Member, NYC Partnership · Barbarlee Diamonstein - Spielvogel · Jim Gerace, President, New York Region, Verizon · Barry Gosin, C.E.O., Newmark Knight Franks; Partnership for NYC Board · Hakeem Jeffries, New York State Assembly · John Johnson, President, Watertown Daily Times · Brian Kolb, Minority Leader, New York State Assembly \ · Kevin Law, Long Island Association · John Liu, New York City Comptroller · Edward Mangano, Nassau County Executive · Howard Milstein, C.E.O., N.Y. Private Bank & Trust and Emigrant Bank · Dean Norton, President, Farm Bureau · Peter Rivera, New York State Assembly · Van B. Robinson, President, Syracuse Common Council · Lisa Rosenblum Senior Vice President, Cablevision.

Building a secure and prosperous future will require wise management of land — the single most important common asset and source of well - being for a vast number of people and communities.

Less common are asset management services, and owning insurance companies, but some of the bigger firms do those.

The «NAV common stocks» with which various Third Avenue Management (TAM) portfolio managers are involved include issues by Brookfield Asset Management, Capital Southwest, Cheung Kong Holdings, Forest City Enterprises, Henderson Land, Investor AB, Lai Sun Garment, Toyota Industries, Wharf Holdings and Wheelock & Company.

Specifically, in all Fund investments which account for more than 3 % of portfolio net assets, e.g., Toyota Industries Common, USG Debentures, Cheung Kong Holdings Common and Brookfield Asset Management Common, I believe that on a reasonable worst case basis, each of these investments will always have material value.

The same is true for other wealth creation common stocks acquired during the quarter at substantial discounts from readily ascertainable net asset values — including the probable real estate values in Alexander & Baldwin and Catellus; the probable securities values in Brascan (including real estate), Phoenix Companies, MONY and Toyota Industries; and the probable values of Assets Under Management (AUM) for BKF and Legg Mason.

A majority of the TAVF common stock investments are in companies acquired at substantial discounts from Fund management's estimates of net asset value (NAV), where Fund management believes that prospects are good that NAV will be steadily increased over the long term.

There is one other very important characteristic to all these Graham & Dodd common stocks whose names include: Brookfield Asset Management, Capital Southwest, Cheung Kong Holdings, Hang Lung Group, Henderson Land Development, Investor A / B and Wheelock & Co..

A large part of Company B's modus operandi is to engage in massive asset redeployments, including acquisitions and going into new lines of business, massive liability and net worth redeployments (including common stock repurchases), management changes and taking advantage of attractive pricing in capital markets.

These Third Avenue common stock investments include the following: Brookfield Asset Management, Capital Southwest, Cheung Kong Holdings, Forest City Enterprises, Guoco Group, Henderson Land Development, Hutchison Whampoa, Investor AB, Jardine Matheson, RHJ International, Wharf Holdings and Wheelock & Co..

In the hands of a reasonably competent management, an overpriced common stock tends to be an important asset with which to create future wealth by issuing that common stock in public offerings, and in merger and acquisition transactions.

The fund employs a «passive management» - or indexing - investment approach by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the common stocks included in the NASDAQ India Midcap Index.

Let's say an investor wants to create an iron butterfly around the common stock of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (TSE: BAM.A) which is currently trading at $ 45.00 in March 2016.

Standard Life Investments and Aberdeen Asset Management share a set of common investment beliefs.

Receivership involves defending the customer assets, changing the management, wiping out the common stock and a portion of the bondholders» claims, continuing the operation of the institution in receivership, and eventually selling or reissuing the company to private ownership, leaving the bondholders with the residual.

Managements of the companies whose common stocks are in our portfolios tend to be non-promotional and highly conservative, willing in up periods to sacrifice returns on equity and returns on assets for safety.

Regardless of the type of institution with which you open your retirement account and what kind of account you choose (there are in fact 11 types of tax - advantaged accounts; the most common being traditional and Roth IRAs), you should ask how they charge fees and commissions at the outset; the exact charges will vary based on the volume of your transactions or on the size of your assets under management.

The most common due diligence process is one that provides a list of metrics, including — but not limited to — expense ratio, excess return, and assets under management, and then requires investors to pick through those metrics to determine whether the index fund is any good.

Brookfield Asset Management, a 37.2 % holder of GGP common, and thus a 37.2 % owner of Rouse shares, agreed to backstop the rights offering for a $ 6 million fee.

Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management and author of «A Wealth of Common Senmanagement at Ritholtz Wealth Management and author of «A Wealth of Common SenManagement and author of «A Wealth of Common Sense».

Property issues and disputes of all types, including: contracts for the acquisition, development and management of land; options and conditional contracts; overage claims; project management and similar contracts; mortgages and other security arrangements, including enforcement disputes; planning and other statutory issues connected with property contracts; leases of all types; landlord and tenant disputes (particularly commercial — including retail, leisure and distribution — and residential); rent reviews; leasehold enfranchisement; rights over land (including easements, covenants and rights of light); trespass and nuisance claims; disputed asset disposals; estate agency; property - related competition law issues; and commons and village greens.

But what they all share in common is a knowledge of and profound interest in the same legal subject area — pharmaceutical class actions, say, or business process patents, or asset securitization, or child custody proceedings in Oregon, or small - claims court cases in Nova Scotia, or wealth management in New South Wales, or any of the law's thousands upon thousands of sub-specialties.

After canvassing the leading substantive - consolidation standards and cases, Judge Jernigan determined that consolidation is appropriate under any test; her decision turned on a litany of facts and factors, including that (i) the company's «nerve center» is its Texas headquarters and all payroll for employees is effectuated from there, (ii) the company's centralized cash - management system and three bank accounts, (iii) all debtor entities were controlled by common officers and directors, (iv) the existence of substantial intercompany claims, (v) credible testimony demonstrated that preparing individual schedules was extraordinarily difficult and required numerous amendments, (vi) a substantial amount of creditors treated the debtors as a single unit, and (vii) that credible counsel had determined that the primary assets of many debtors — D&O litigation claims — are jointly owned by the debtors.

An Information Governance Framework provides a common set of rules and processes for the management of information assets.

The goal of an enterprise architect is to promote alignment, reuse of existing IT assets, standardization, and the sharing of common methods for project management and software development across the organization.

Prepared valuation analyses and cash flow models on prospective acquisitions using ARGUS; and recorded acquisition / sale of 1031 properties on multiple entities Prepared quarterly financial reports for tax auditors using QuickBooks, including all supporting schedules for 10 - K and 10 - Q filings Created / Maintained lease briefs for newly acquired assets and performed due diligence for prospective acquisitions Managed and reconciled cash for company and 1031 exchange properties; and acted as primary contact for all treasury management issues Filed annual business property statement and recorded estimated income tax payments — state and federal Created accounting procedures manual and supervised / trained assistants to perform accounts payable tasks Consulted with property accountants to resolve discrepancies in monthly financial reports Provided executives, shareholders, lenders and investors with monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports Ensured compliance with loan covenants and tenant in common (TIC) agreements

In addition, pursuant to an offer previously made by Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the independent members of GGP's board of directors decided not to purchase the warrants recently acquired by Brookfield from affiliates of Pershing Square Capital Management L.P. Brookfield is now the sole holder of the company's remaining outstanding warrants, which are currently exercisable into approximately 83 million common shares at a weighted average exercise price of approximately $ 9.53 per share.

The $ 24.25 per share consideration represents a premium of approximately 25 % to the 30 - day volume weighted average price of the common shares on the NYSE and TSX for the period ended October 22, 2014 (being the last trading day prior to the announcement of Brookfield Asset Management privatization proposal).

Calgary, Alberta — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (the «Company» or «Brookfield Residential»)(BRP: NYSE / TSX) announced today that in connection with the proposed plan of arrangement (the «Arrangement») pursuant to which 1927726 Ontario Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., will acquire all of the common shares of Brookfield Residential that are not already owned by Brookfield Asset Management and its affiliates for consideration of $ 24.25 per share, Brookfield Residential has applied to the securities regulatory authorities in each of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador for a decision deeming it to have ceased to be a reporting issuer in such jurisdictions, effective upon the closing of the Arrangement and the delisting of Brookfield Residential's common shares from the TSX and the NYSE.

As a result of the 32.4 million common shares of Brookfield Residential acquired by Brookfield Asset Management pursuant to the Arrangement, Brookfield Asset Management now owns 100 % of the issued and outstanding common shares of Brookfield Residential.

On December 23, 2014, a definitive agreement was entered into and announced whereby Brookfield Asset Management would acquire all of our shares that it does not already own pursuant to a court - approved plan of arrangement for cash consideration of $ 24.25 per common share, which was $ 1.25 more than Brookfield Asset Management's initial proposal.

Brookfield Residential announced that it has issued US$ 300 million of Brookfield Residential common shares to Brookfield Investments Corporation, a wholly - owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., as consideration for the purchase of US$ 300 million of Class B Preferred Shares, Series 1 of Brookfield BPY Holdings Inc..

Calgary, Alberta — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (BRP: NYSE / TSX) acknowledges receipt of a non-binding proposal from Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (BAM: NYSE / TSX) that it announced by press release issued earlier today outlining its proposal to acquire the approximately 30 % of the common shares of Brookfield Residential that it does not already own for US$ 23.00 cash per share.

Calgary, Alberta — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (BRP: NYSE / TSX) today announced that the Special Committee of the board of directors of Brookfield Residential has appointed Morgan Stanley to act as its exclusive financial advisor in connection with the previously announced non-binding proposal from Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (BAM: NYSE / TSX) to acquire the approximately 30 % of the common shares of Brookfield Residential that it does not already own for US$ 23.00 cash per share.

Calgary, Alberta — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. («Brookfield Residential»)(BRP: NYSE / TSX) announced today it has received the final order of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) approving the plan of arrangement pursuant to which 1927726 Ontario Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Brookfield Residential that Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and its affiliates did not already own (the «Arrangement»).

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. («Brookfield Asset Management»)(NYSE: BAM)(TSX: BAM.A)(Euronext: BAMA) and Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. («Brookfield Residential»)(BRP: NYSE / TSX) announced today the closing of the going private transaction of Brookfield Residential, pursuant to which 1927726 Ontario Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Brookfield Residential that Brookfield Asset Management and its affiliates did not already own by way of a plan of arrangement (the «Arrangement»).

Calgary, Alberta — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (the «Company» or «Brookfield Residential»)(BRP: NYSE / TSX) is pleased to announce that a second independent proxy advisory firm, Glass Lewis & Co., LLC («Glass Lewis»), has recommended that shareholders vote FOR the special resolution to approve the plan of arrangement (the «Plan of Arrangement») pursuant to which 1927726 Ontario Inc. (the «Purchaser»), a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., will acquire all of the common shares of the Company that are not already owned by Brookfield Asset Management and its affiliates for consideration of US$ 24.25 per share.

Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (the «Company» or «Brookfield Residential»)(BRP: NYSE / TSX) is pleased to announce that a second independent proxy advisory firm, Glass Lewis & Co., LLC («Glass Lewis»), has recommended that shareholders vote FOR the special resolution to approve the plan of arrangement (the «Plan of Arrangement») pursuant to which 1927726 Ontario Inc. (the «Purchaser»), a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., will acquire all of the common shares of the Company that are not already owned by Brookfield Asset Management and its affiliates for consideration of US$ 24.25 per share.