Sentences with phrase «about being an asset to the company»

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Marie - Huguette Cormier is about to step into a room filled with her company's most valuable assets.

Clark says: «Everyone, sooner or later, is going to hear about how you've treated your employees,» and suggests that if a work relationship is ended caringly, former employees can be great assets to a company.

Private companies are viewed more favourably than state - owned firms, and the CEOs were lukewarm about the idea of using ownership policy to promote democracy, such as limiting the ability of companies based in undemocratic countries to buy Canadian assets.

At the same time, the bank is also trying to improve the profit margins in its wealth management unit, which now accounts for about 40 percent of the company's revenue, looking at both increasing assets under management and selling clients more products.

That's why Kaplan suggests that business owners looking for appreciation beyond the growing value of their companies speak to an investment advisor about assembling a portfolio composed of a combination of equities, real estate and hard assets and generating current income through bonds and dividend - paying stocks.

Another Canadian company's recovery in the face of rejection is worthy of note here: After Ottawa blocked MDA's sale of its space division to a U.S. - based firm in 2008 because the feds deemed the business a strategic national asset, MDA did an about - face.

Although this amount could be as little as zero, Cherny insists that about 90 percent of the company's roughly 85,000 customers choose to pay some percentage of their assets under management.

Starboard, which owns about 0.75 percent of Yahoo, has been pushing for changes at the Internet company since 2014, urging it to separate its Asian assets and auction off the core business.

The documents also show that a number of holding companies with about $ 2 billion in assets are connected to a network of associates of Russian president Vladimir Putin, although the Russian government has rejected the suggestion of any impropriety.

We're just slogging away in the traditional investment world,»» says Cordes, who built AssetMark Investment Services to about $ 9 billion in assets, sold it to Genworth Financial Inc. in 2006, and last year was part of an investment group that re-acquired the company.

He is accused of repeatedly losing money for investors and lying to them about it, illegally taking assets from one of his companies to pay off debtors in another.

Though Trump and Dillon claimed that their plan resolved questions about conflicts of interest, ethics experts disagree: Because Trump still knows what his assets are and the identities of those with whom he does business, they say, Trump still knows more than enough to favor his company.

Through the experiment, the company said it aims to learn more about digital currencies, which have been proliferating since the creation of Bitcoin, the oldest and most valuable of these assets.

Hello Professor, I am hearing a lot about the potential for retaliatory trade actions by the U.S. as a result of its Section 301 investigation into Chinese trade practices, i.e., forced transfers of IP and know - how, refusal to allow U.S. companies to invest in and own Chinese assets, etc..

It's always a risk writing about a deal before it is official: CNBC reported a month ago that Disney was in talks to acquire many of 21st Century Fox's assets, including its eponymous movie studio, TV production company, cable channels, and international assets (but not the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, FS1 — Fox's sports channel — and Fox Business).

The new company, which expects to have about $ 12 billion in assets under management after the completion of ongoing fund raisings, will be led by Michael Chu and Scott A. Dahnke, managing partners at Catterton.

The companies surveyed - the biggest or most internationally - focused banks, insurers, asset managers, private equity firms and exchanges in Britain - were responding to questions about their plans in the event of a so - called «hard» Brexit, where the UK would leave not only the EU but also the single market and Customs Union.

As with any unregulated asset class and the introduction of new technology, there has been a mass growth in blockchain tech, with companies looking at developing blockchain tech to deliver on just about everything transferrable.

According to another study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and ICI Study, about 88 percent of 401 (k) plan assets are in equity securities, target date funds and company stock.

It's about a hopeful break even scenario of your marketing budget that gives you market validation, deliverable marketing and branding assets, data driven research to improve and grow your company, and pre sales, PR, and buzz that was never possible to obtain prior to an official public launch.

When you see someone spending all their free time they have at a company and are really passionate about what we're doing, they're going to be a good asset to us and get hired on.

While Lion's beer and wine business continues to grow, sales and earnings in dairy have been going backwards for several years, forcing the company to write down the value of dairy assets by about $ 2 billion.

Studies of employee ownership in the U.S., where this idea is a major part of the economy, show that employee owners are one - third as likely to be laid off as employees in conventional firms and the employee ownership companies add about 2.5 % more jobs per year than would have been expected absent employee ownership while providing 2.5 times the total retirement assets.

That's why, when this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies — companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding hundreds of billions of dollars in assets — had to take place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night.

I asked him about this last comment, because it seemed to me that if a person were burned out on science, he or she might still be an asset to a company in a business capacity.

To the company's benefit, it also gives them a wealth of data about their users, which is a valuable asset for investors.

As an aside, M. R. Greenberg was known to be adamant about his ROE goal (15 % after - tax on average equity), but he also liked the company to have bulk (high assets — he liked asset - sensitive lines), which is why the ROA slid in the latter part of his tenure.

The first thing to note is that we've got no particular insight into any of the companies that we write about or the actual value of the companies» assets.

The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) is one of those big pension funds you hear about, providing sweet defined benefit pensions to government workers, and buying up companies and assets to help fund those pensions.

Second, Investment Company Institute research indicates that about 90 % of the growth in IRA assets from 1996 to 2008 was associated with rollovers from employer plans into IRA, and only about 10 % was associated with direct traditional IRA or Roth IRA contributions.

In contrast, BVF, an activist investor, seeks to take direct control of the company with nominees that have conflicts of interest (all but one is a BVF manager or partner), have no insight into the value of Avigen's assets, have not been forthcoming with other stockholders about their dealings, and have a record of acting in ways that are NOT in the best interests of other stockholders.

Two areas that are particularly striking to me are MCT explanations of why most closed - end investment company common stocks sell at discounts from net asset values, and MCT theories about restructuring troubled companies.

If I transfer assets out of the Plan and into an IRA I understand that: (i) those assets will no longer be subject to the protections of ERISA, (ii) I alone will be making investment decisions about those assets and will not be able to rely on the plan sponsor or any other person with ERISA fiduciary responsibilities, (iii) depending on the investments and services selected for the IRA, I may pay more in transaction costs than when the assets are in the Plan, and (iv) if I am between the age of 55 and 59.5, I would lose the ability to potentially take penalty - free withdrawals from the plan, (v) if I continue working past age 70.5 and transferred my plan assets to my new employer's plan, I would not be subject to required minimum distribution, and (iv) if I hold appreciated company stock, I understand any potential tax benefits that may have been available to me (e.g. net unrealized appreciation).

As reported in the Boston Globe article, on Tuesday the company announced that it is going to cut 115 jobs or about 8 % of its workforce given the continued outflow of assets from their firm.

Asset Value: Be sure to first revisit my previous commentary about my approach to valuing natural resource companies on a reserves / resources basis.

However, a certain percentage of these assets are not deemed to be investment grade (in the investment class of A or better), which in turn, can make the insurer ratings agencies a bit more leery about the company's overall financial strength in the event of a downward moving market.

So, when we began thinking about how to manage our newly liquid assets, we wondered if there might be a sound way to invest that could be process - driven, protected from human behavioral swings, and grounded in timeless lessons for evaluating public companies as potential long - term investments.

Looking at the asset mix, Raven's clearly more of an investment company — but since we're talking about Russia, let's split the difference: I'd prefer to see Average Net LTV remain limited to (say) 50 %.

We've previously posted about INFS here, here and here, writing that it is a deeply undervalued asset situation with two activist investors, Nery Capital Partners and Lloyd I. Miller, III, pushing the company to «consider the views expressed by its shareholders and pursue new alternatives to increase shareholder value.»

the nice thing about the capital cycle approach is just to say, OK, you can be as dumb as a value investor, or as blinkered, if you will, but just say: I'm going to look at companies and see how much they've been expanding their assets.

«Our guide on the trips was fantastic, very informative and knowledgeable about the island and the customs of the people, and his English was excellent, an asset to your company.

It is not surprising then that the next time we heard about the project, Crytek had sold the sold the rights, assets and team to an external company, Koch Media.

Investors in oil and gas companies have been in the dark about their exposure to climate risk, but they will now be able to confront companies with precise information and ask hard questions about how they intend to deal with potentially stranded assets.»

Plus, as an investor, I have made it a point to understand as much as I can learn about the assets of various energy companies... and all that can be learned about future prospects

Any auditor in the business longer than a day will be able to tell you wonderful stories about customers who have lost just about every document under the sun, from (kidding you not) the company's share register, list of accounts receivable, large assets (buildings!)

Such considerations can also be factors for socially responsible investors who are concerned about increased carbon emissions in the U.S. Investors, with more than $ 3 trillion in assets and who use an environmental, social and governance criteria, have been effective at encouraging companies to consider environmental consequences in their business decisions.

Use an LLC or corporation to more fully separate the work you do from your personal finances (so they can go after company assets, but not personal, at least not as easily), engage an insurance firm for Errors and Omissions insurance (I pay about $ 500 / year for this), and write the contracts so that your liability is limited.

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Nicole Shanahan talks about why intellectual property is important to a law firm and how her company is working to reduce the cost of producing assets.

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