Sentences with phrase «last year managers»

Last year managers agreed to a road map for decommissioning the site over the next 30 to 40 years that calls for removing melted nuclear fuel masses and demolishing the plant's four reactor halls at a cost that could top $ 9 billion.

Not exact matches

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

At last year's gathering, Trump was unofficially represented by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, who would later last just 10 days as the White House communications director.

For instance, in the 29 - storey Central Point towers, built three years ago, a handful of tenants finally moved in last fall, according to a property manager.

At a dinner table over the holidays, I sat next to a New York - based investment manager who told me that the CEOs who have come to visit him over the last couple of years told him that their recent layoffs were just «cutting out the dead wood» that they'd been reluctant to cut earlier.

As Jim Chanos, a U.S. hedge fund manager and China skeptic famously put it early last year, China «is on a treadmill to hell.»

And last year, says Greg Hounslow, the airline's manager of emerging media, «we realized we could create something that felt more like a movement than a moment.»

David Lewis, head Americas trader at $ 800 billion asset manager Franklin Templeton, for example, found out that Russia had invaded Crimea last year well before the news hit major media because he'd been monitoring Twitter.

Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

«There's definitely a cap on growth at that airport,» says Steve Silverhart of HUBS Aviation Consulting, who spent a year as ground services manager at Billy Bishop, which handled two million travellers last year.

During last year's GABF, says store manager Josh Sansburn, sales increased 20 - 30 %.

But benefits manager Beverley Menillo explained to Fortune how she noticed early last year that her employees were frequently discussing these matters on their phones.

The globe's 25 top - earning hedge - fund managers raked in an astonishing $ 11 billion last year, despite producing disappointing investor returns, according to an annual list released Tuesday by Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine.

And last year, hedge fund manager David Tepper sought to block SunEdison and TerraForm Power Inc.'s acquisition of installer Vivint Solar Inc. on his assessment that rooftop assets were inferior to solar power plants, which have long - term contracts with utilities.

While the amount of total money that managers made last year is down from others, according to the Times, it's still double than what it was in 2000, the year that Institutional Investor first rolled out the annual list.

According to Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine's recently released list of the top - earning hedge fund managers, the top 25 hedge fund heads earned $ 11 billion in total last year.

«As a reality check, Tesla is worth twice as much as Ford, yet Ford made 6 million cars last year at a $ 7.6 billion profit while Tesla made 100,000 cars at a $ 2 billion loss,» wrote Thompson, who has consistently outperformed the market as a hedge fund manager.

Proceeds from IPOs are down 65 % from last year, and IPO returns are in negative territory, according to IPO fund manager Renaissance Capital.

Poor performance and high fees drove money out of the money managers» funds by about $ 70 billion last year, the biggest drop since 2009, according to data tracker HFR.

«On Instagram, we saw everyone was catching up,» Ryan Rimsnider, the chain's senior manager of social strategy, told Business Insider last year.

Last year, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said Buffett's investment in Coca - Cola was immoral.

Last year, general manager Ken Girard added a new feature to the dealership's website: live chat.

Glen Lucas, general manager of the BC Fruit Growers Association, said the Chinese tariffs will be disruptive but is hopeful that American efforts over the last 20 years to develop export markets will prompt Americans to sell more to other markets.

LEDs last a very long time, so it's amusing to hear astonished clients say they haven't called an electrician or manager to intervene in three years.

Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management merged to form one of Britain's biggest asset manager last year.

Money managers that rolled out smart beta ETFs in the last few years have received just 5 percent of cumulative investor inflows since 2012, with the bulk of new money going to the largest companies, the Goldman report said.

The owner of fast - food chains KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, Yum Brands (yum) spun off its China business last year at the behest of Corvex hedge fund manager and Carl Icahn protégé Keith Meister.

This time last year, fund managers in Perth were talking bullishly about continued strong investment returns and plans to rapidly expand funds under management.

Ken Wisnefski, founder of WebiMax, an online marketing company in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, had to have a difficult talk with a manager at his previous company, which he sold last year.

Pershing Square hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, now Valeant's largest shareholder (and a self - proclaimed value investor himself), said he thought the stock was undervalued when he bought into it early last year when it was trading around 14 times estimated earnings.

Here's a scary set of statistics: 78 percent of brand managers increased their output of content last year, yet saw a decrease in engagement of 60 percent.

Buffett got into a behind the scenes dispute with hedge fund manager Bill Ackman last year over Valeant, after his No. 2 Charlie Munger compared Valeant to famously flawed conglomerate ITT.

A Novus poll of about 1,300 managers and executives in Sweden last year showed only 4 percent wanted to move abroad.

Simon Rice, group manager for Technology at theInformation Commissioner's Office, said in a blog on Thursday that «with 350,000 of these cameras sold in the U.K. alone last year, this is a threat that all of us need to be aware of and be taking action to protect against.»

U.S. drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals, led at the time by hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, caused outrage last year by raising the U.S. price of Daraprim, an old anti-infective drug, by more than 5,000 % to $ 750 a pill.

Over the last three years, I've learned to do my own payroll, do my own company taxes, and serve as my own IT manager.

When concerns over exposure to U.S. sub - prime mortgages caused the market for these complex investments to collapse last summer, the 60 - year - old chemical industry manager was not even notified anything was amiss.

Grant Engelbart, a portfolio manager at CLS Investments, favors J.P. Morgan Diversified Alternative (jphf), which manages $ 154 million; it launched late last year.

«Filling out the application itself is a good review of how you're doing,» says Vickie Hagen, vice-president and general manager of Omaha Steaks» catalog division, which nabbed the DMA award last year.

Airbnb's work to prepare for the Olympics began when it signed a deal last year with the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016, says Airbnb's Brazil manager, Leonardo Tristao.

Yet some fund managers and analysts say that Amazon.com's (amzn) lofty upward trend is leaving the stock primed for a significant tumble should it not exceed high expectations for growth in its Prime subscription service, which jumped 50 % last year.

The lack of diversity in Trident's staffing and lending disturbed Beth Warshaw, 38, a white manager at a local arts nonprofit, who last year bought a two - bedroom brick row house in a primarily African American neighborhood of South Philadelphia.

But late last year, the Bechtel family and top managers decided to tell their story to Fortune by granting extensive interviews for an in - depth corporate profile — the first time the company has ever lifted the veil.

And former hedge fund manager and Red Sox owner John Henry bought The Boston Globe last year for $ 70 million.

Over the last five and ten years, less than twenty percent of large - cap managers beat their benchmark.

The company announced last year that it had overstated earnings estimates and suspended senior managers.

Legendary value manager Bill Miller, who beat the S&P 500 for 15 years straight before underperforming for four of the last five years, will step down from running the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust fund in April.

Sam Peters, who was said to be Miller's heir apparent when he was promoted to co-manager of the fund last year, will become the sole manager of the $ 2.8 billion fund as well as chief investment officer for Legg Mason Capital Management as a whole, the Baltimore - based company said in a statement released Thursday.

by Trevor Hunnicutt and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, slashed the amount it paid out in commissions to Wall Street firms for research by more than half for its largest mutual fund over the last two years, according to filings.

NEW YORK — Wall Street's elite club of hedge fund managers got a bit richer last year, according to an annual ranking published this week.