Sentences with phrase «additional investment by»

These activities represent a significant, but important, additional investment by developers to ready their tokens and applications for their prospective users.

What's interesting to note is that many of these issues could be solved with minimal additional investment by the bank issuers.

«These types of improvements are not fully financeable through traditional methods and therefore require additional investment by the State,» Howard Zemsky, CEO of the ESD, wrote in an outline of the grant.

We are in a global competition and it will take additional investments by our Legislature to redesign our system to better support our students and our educators.»

He can make the additional investments by paying unlimited top up premium amounts to increase the fund value, given that all the claims have been done so far.

[3] And that excludes certain additional investments by states and other entities, as well as the Tribal Home Visiting Program.

Not exact matches

Moreover, additional rules lower small - company employment and investment by raising the cost of business activity.

This gambit and others — like additional senior hires and the use of tech to engage clients — is expected to increase Goldman's investment - banking client base by 10 %, to more than 9,000 by 2020 and to contribute $ 500 million of the $ 5 billion in new revenue the bank is chasing.

By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.

«However, Berkshire routinely assesses market conditions and may decide to purchase additional shares of common stock of Wells Fargo based on its evaluation of the investment opportunity presented by such purchases.»

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

«Networks get to keep all the advertising dollars sold, and it's not really accompanied by an investment in additional staff.»

Until then, the company was self - financed by the founders, with an additional $ 75,000 investment from Taza in 2012 and pre-harvest financing from an agricultural trading company.

• Bowery, a New York City - based farming startup, raised $ 20 million in Series A funding co-led by General Catalyst and GGV Capital with additional investment from GV.

Activision itself is buying back US$ 5.83 billion worth of stock, while the investment group led by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Co-Chairman Brian Kelly will buy an additional US$ 2.34 billion.

At stake: a $ 5 billion facility that will employ 50,000 and boost state coffers by adding billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community over the next 10 to 15 years.

To execute on this business you would need to do a Series A investment of $ 100m for 1 / 3rd of the company, followed by three or four additional rounds of investment in the $ 100 — 200m range.

The floor price, which begins this year at C$ 10 per tonne and increases to $ 50 by 2022, will cost the country's economy about $ 2 billion, or 0.1 % — before factoring in «the prospect of additional growth that could result from clean technology investments spurred on by a higher price on carbon,» The Canadian Press notes.

It turns out that if desired investment exceeds actual investment, the additional savings will be borrowed and invested, and investment will rise by the same amount by which consumption declines.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

The key takeaway from this scenario is that an incremental investment of $ 80,000 while in your 40s would add over $ 200,000 in additional compounded returns by retirement time.

The key takeaway from this scenario is that an incremental investment of $ 60,000 while in your 30s would add over $ 300,000 in additional compounded returns by retirement time, resulting in a total retirement fund of $ 2.0 million (flat out scenario) versus $ 1.6 million (ramp up scenario).

In a press release announcing HQ2, Amazon said it «estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $ 38 billion to the city's economy — every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional 1.4 dollars for the city's economy overall.»

Note: The new law doesn't address other taxes imposed by the ACA, including the surtax on net investment income (NII), the 0.9 % additional Medicare tax on wages and the medical device tax.

(d) by causing Retrophin to pay cash to himself, Biestek, and Fernandez so that he would not have to invest $ 731,778 of his own funds in the February PIPE, and by using PIPE proceeds in contravention of the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement to fund investments by Shkreli, Biestek and Fernandez, resulting in an additional benefit to Shkreli alone of $ 360,000 in cash and 180,000 Retrophin shares and warrants worth more than $ 5.3 million (at current market prices).

Client information may be used by Wellington Management in order to identify potential client needs for additional investment management services.

As of July 2015, its valuation hit nearly $ 51 billion, equaling the record set by Facebook in 2012.394 It recently secured an additional $ 3.5 billion in investment, bringing its total funds to $ 13.5 billion — a figure «far greater than most companies raise even during an initial public offering,» which Uber has avoided.395

-- The majority of 401 consultants support additional services in defined contribution retirement plans as participants rely more heavily on such funds when they retire, according to according to the 12th annual PIMCO Defined Contribution Consulting Support and Trends Survey published by PIMCO, one of the world» s premier fixed income investment managers..

SANTA CLARA, CA, May 05, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX)-- CloudGenix, the software - defined wide area network (SD - WAN) leader, secures $ 25 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and including additional investments from Charles River Ventures and the Mayfield Fund.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

China's public - sector investment, in other words, is value destroying, and because it is funded by debt, additional investment causes China's real debt servicing costs to rise faster than its real debt servicing capacity.

China has overinvested in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity to such an extent that in the aggregate the cost of additional public sector investment exceeds the present value of future increases in productivity generated by the investment.

New investors participating in the financing include Cowen Healthcare Investments, Pappas Capital, Chiesi Venture Fund, Qiming Venture Partners and Bay City Capital, joined by additional existing investors EcoR1 Capital, Omega Funds, and Aju IB Investment.

The new funding was led by Tencent, with participation from a long list of investors including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Haier, Telstra, China Minsheng Bank, Juran Zhijia, CreditEase, and Green Pine Capital, with additional investment from CDH Investments who led Ubtech's 100 million series B funding in 2016.

Lazard gains new clients each year through its business development initiatives, by recruiting additional senior investment banking professionals who bring along client relationships, and through referrals from third parties with whom Lazard has relationships.

The government proposes to change its rules for taxation of passive investment to account for this initial imbalance, charging an additional tax on passive investment income held by businesses when that income is distributed as dividends.

Turkey aims to have $ 5 billion in wind energy investments by the end of this year, with the awarding of additional wind capacity tenders, the president of the Turkish Wind Continue Reading

In recognizing the catalysts behind the public's persistence to save and reluctance to spend, additional analysis by policymakers should focus on the efficacy of further rate cuts on spending and investment, as well as potential «roundabout» benefits of a more normal rates regime to affirm support toward the public's saving objectives, with the end goal of boosting public's risk sentiment and perceptions of future economic stability.

Partnership Accelerates Growth and Innovation for Sales and Marketing Technology Leader VANCOUVER, WA, March 14, 2018 — DiscoverOrg, the leading sales and marketing intelligence provider, announced today that it has completed a strategic minority investment by global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), along with additional investment to come from 22C Capital.

It may have been intended to encourage more angel investment by the end of the year, but most of the folks I know who've thought about it agree that, if spurring additional angel and startup investment was the desired impact, the break would really need to be in place permanently, or for a longer period of time.

Anyways, 11 % increase was achieved more by new investments than dividend returns and additional investments are drying up this year.

The deal for an 18 - acre block owned by the City of Brantford, is expected to close on March 28, and represents an additional investment of about C$ 2.2 million.

GBST (GBT), a Fund investment which makes software for financial services clients, surprised the market in August by announcing that its products would need an additional $ 50m of «investment» over the next three years.

The round, which takes total investment in the company to approximately $ 88m, was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with additional funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures), NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and Dimension Data.

In addition to «flat - fee - only» and «fee - offset» models, the SunAmerica Advisory Opinion provides that asset allocation services offered to participants (involving advice and even discretionary management) that are the product of a computer model developed and overseen by an independent financial expert, and subject to certain additional conditions, would allow a service provider (the broker - dealer, in this case) to avoid PTs when receiving variable / indirect compensation from its platform of investment offerings.

Early Thursday morning, Jack Erwin announced a new slug of cash — a $ 9 million in Series B funding round led by Brown Shoe, with additional investments from CrossLink Capital, Shasta Ventures, and FundersGuild.

The BC Liberals have pledged to increase investment in childcare by 352.5 million, creating 5,000 new places in 2017 with a goal to have up to 13,000 additional spaces by 2020.

VANCOUVER, WA, March 14, 2018 — DiscoverOrg, the leading sales and marketing intelligence provider, announced today that it has completed a strategic minority investment by global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), along with additional investment to come from 22C Capital.

Senator Sanders, for example, would pay for his plan by applying the 12.4 percent payroll tax (currently imposed on the first $ 118,500 of wages) to all income above $ 250,000 and then applying an additional 6.2 percent tax on investment income above that level.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.