Sentences with phrase «about losing the investment»

Do you worry about losing the investment you've made in your trip because of an unexpected cancellation?

People have some reason for wanting to get their money out — either they're worried about losing their investments in a China crash, or they're betting on the depreciation of the yuan.

Not exact matches

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

When you strip down the complicated investment vehicles — now being peddled for pennies on the dollar — there are people like Jack Hamersma, a boat salesman Packer wrote about who lost his job, was diagnosed with cancer and then had his house foreclosed upon.

After paying back the margin costs of about 5 percent or more, you lose $ 2.50 — or 25 percent — on the original $ 10 investment.

There's nothing dumb about keeping a limited pool of money in checking — enough for emergencies, but not so much you lose out on important investments and savings.

When I think about investing vs debt, I tend to think about the Roth a bit differently than other platforms only because elapsed time is not something you can make up (both in the sense that you can not make up for lost investment time AND the fact that $ 5,500 today is worth less than that $ 5,500 was worth one year ago).

I believe that Carl lost about $ 200 million of his original Blockbuster stock investment.

Tell me more about the circumstances when friends lost 100 % of syndication investment if you don't mind.

The central bank also warned the Iranian citizens about the high risks of making investment in the volatile market of the digital currencies saying they «may lose their financial assets.»

Think about people who were invested in Enron, Bear Stearns or Blockbuster — they only lost their initial investment, they didn't take a credit hit or lose their homes.

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If I owned a stock investment that lost about 31 % in 3 months, I would: (If you owned stocks during this period, select the answer that corresponds to your actual behavior.)»

Certainly, investors hear alarming investment nightmare stories about people who held a large proportion of their personal wealth in their employer's stock and lost everything.3 4 While your client may think, «I know this company because I work here,» that thinking can get them into trouble — think WorldCom and Lehman Brothers.

The first step would be to be candid about the risk of the investment and get them to understand that they may well lose all their money.

He then cites legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Investment Corp, who said that: «I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money; focus on protecting what you have.»

All you think about is how much you could be making from a particular investment class without realizing how much you could lose as well.

GrainCorp has estimated Australia's proximity to Asia delivers farmers a freight advantage of about $ 10 a tonne of grain, but outgoing chief executive Alison Watkins warned last August that without investment in rail infrastructure this advantage would be lost.

I do not think Silent Stan wants his investment to lose wealth, I do not think Silent Stan is deeply knowledgeable about football and relies upon people in his staff to advise him.

whilst retaining van der sar, giggs, scholes, neville etc who set the clubs standards and winning mentality... we hav lost vieira, petit, henry, keown, Cashley, campbell, lauren, parlour, pires, wiltord, kanu, lehmann, overmars, bergkamp and our only investments to compare with that (i.e established players that u wud get excited about) have been reyes, arshavin, nasri... can u blame fans for being frustrated

Though NYRA insists no New York jobs will be lost, Cuomo is still concerned about the contract «given the extraordinary investment New York State has made to maintain NYRA's viability over the years.»

Corbyn is now just talking utter garbage about pharmaceutical investment, R&D and how companies lose patents.

About two hundred and sixty eight million dollars ($ 268m) of investments have been lost within months following government's ban on small scale mining, Small Scale Miners Association claims.

«But a second problem that we've voiced concern about, which is sort of getting lost in the conversation, is that a lot of these are a bad investment of state taxpayer dollars.»

«Once school districts and boards realize how much funding is lost — especially in those districts that are struggling for funds — we see that it is worth the investment to do something about bullying.»

We all make similarly irrational arguments about decisions in our lives: we hang on to losing stocks, unprofitable investments, failing businesses and unsuccessful relationships.

If my investment career is the only thing we're talking about, I definitely lost at least five years, perhaps more, getting started on it because my head was filled with all these ideas of efficient markets.

By the middle of January, your investments would have lost about 10 % of their value.

If portfolio tracking takes too long for you, it probably means that you'll lose interest in doing it often enough, and you won't be able to make informed decisions about your investments.

Don't think about the money you lost on your investment.

In his CNBC interview, Mr. Salinas expressed regret about not capturing Circuit City at a bargain - basement price and losing his investment, but acknowledged that it was for the best.

If your investment is about to lose $ 5,000 and all you have to do is hit sell and no one will ever find out, I bet a lot of people might do something different.

Note that if you had invested in HP stock in April of 2000 and sold in September of 2002, you would've lost over 80 % (leaving you with only 1/5 of your original investment), while the S&P 500 lost «only» about 40 % (at least leaving you with more than 1/2 of your original investment).

Which means that of all the bonds issued that are investment grade, there is about a 1/2 percent chance that you lose your original investment.

Index - linked GICs, sold by chartered banks, guarantee return of all money invested with zero return if their underlying investment indexes lose value and some return, usually about 60 per cent of index performance, if the defined market rises.

I think the trick in the investment business is to have a long enough investment horizon that you maximize your probability of success but not so long that there's extended periods of poor performance that investors lose hope, and we found that about a two - year investment horizon achieves that balance of being able to maximize the probability of success while hopefully having only short periods of underperformance.

A couple of a month ago only the «Canadian equities» was making some gains, all other 3 were losing... now even this one is losing so I am thinking about a change for future investments, which I am making once a year when I get my tax refunds... If the trend continues I could transfer the funds to my daughter to be used later when their value is back on track, right?

I'm a new homeowner and am considering SM once I have about 20 % equity built up (this 20 % will serve as a buffer in case my investments lose worth).

The first case study called «The Man Who Lost His Cool» is about the author's investments in different for - profit education companies.

Get a second opinion, learn more about investing and make sure you're not losing money through fees and substandard investment choices.

From the market's peak in late 2007 to its trough in early 2009, for example, the Standard & Poor's 500 index lost roughly 55 %, while the broad investment - grade bond market gained about 8 %.

If you're not sure about CDs because they lock your investment at a specific interest rate, don't lose hope.

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).

Reducing risk of losing money: The stress of managing investments and worrying about loosing your money to the financial markets is greatly reduced when you buy an annuity.

This is the concept of «risk versus return,» and it's important for you to think about how much comfort you have with your investments losing value.

Existing shareholders who didn't add in the recent placing have lost about 44 % of their initial investment when measured using NAV (more if measured by share price).

For some reason, people seem to have gotten it into their heads that just because the Dec has value of 38,000 dollars and Jan is 40,000 and if you are compelled to switch into January because of expiry dates, you are losing about 5 %, but you are NOT losing 5 %, you are increasing your capital investment in the holding because the future price is higher, i.e. the new holding you have has more value.

or «If you owned a stock that lost about 31 % in four months, would you sell all the remaining investment, sell a portion, hold on to it, or buy more of the investment.»

We're wired to have opinions about investments even when strong evidence says that acting on our opinions will likely lose us money.

To paint a picture for how much the average American is losing out on retirement savings because of debt, Investment News stated in 2010 that defined - contribution plan participants held about $ 9.2 trillion in savings plans, but also owed about $ 4.2 trillion in debt.