Sentences with phrase «against investment companies»
Service fees: Fees and charges assessed against an investment company's assets that cover ministerial, recordkeeping, or administrative activities.
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This has created an ecosystem in which two of the world's richest and fastest - growing companies are bidding against one another for hot investments.
He championed tariffs on Chinese imports, penalties against American companies building factories in China, and tighter restrictions on Chinese investment in the U.S.
All that intrigue swirls in the wake of U.S. congressional moves against attempted U.S. investments by two high - profile Chinese companies.
Druckenmiller, who has been betting against IBM since 2013, cited the buybacks (rather than investment in the business) as a factor when he first made his case publicly against the company.
The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.
Sacca, who is known for his early investments in tech companies such as Twitter and Uber, launched into an impassioned speech criticizing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, firing off a barrage of charges against Trump that were as fast, furious, and hard to fact check as those coming from the candidates themselves.
For instance, Foundation is using the platform to track companies against peers and find new investment leads.
The start - up founder had, it seems, conceived of his postings as a way to help other company founders understand what a funding round looks like from the inside, and the effect was that the investment firms began bidding against one another.
Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained injunctions against Perth property developers Kenneth and Morag Fraser and associated companies to stop the promotion of nine land sub-division schemes.
The investment analysis and market index company said its proxy advisory unit, Institutional Shareholder Services, received a Wells Notice on Sept. 14 related to a whistleblower complaint made against an employee of the unit.
On December 2nd, Campbell Soup Company came out against the bill, saying that, «the current version of Senate Bill 58 would overhaul the current state policy on energy efficiency and renewable energy standards and discourage continued investment in renewable energy in the state:»
My question is, our financial adviser advised against contributing more than what my husband's company will match in his 401K because they only match $ 900 / year and the investment options are very basic — Bond (Fixed Income) or Large Cap (equities).
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Management Foreign Direct Investment FDI volumes are declining globally, as some national governments take a stronger stance against foreign ownership of their companies and land.
Many of these investments involve buying companies in foreign currencies, like the Australian dollar or British pound, that are trading near multi-year lows against the US dollar, and far below their historic averages.
My first investment principle goes against many income seeking investors» rule: I try to avoid most companies with a dividend yield over 5 %.
But US companies have complex relationships with the Chinese market; they complain about discrimination and over-regulation but they want access, so they don't support actions against the Chinese government on trade and investment.
Referring to the decision, a spokesman for Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority said that «every institution must decide on the details of their internal regulations specifying the rules for their employees» investments and trading,» suggesting that the regulatory agency does not intend to interfere in Nordea's decision, nor act against similar moves that may be taken by other companies.
footnote ** Ratings of the insurance companies don't apply to the Vanguard Variable Annuity portfolios and don't provide protection against investment risk.
This month, the SEC published the latest version of international financial services firm Capital Group's Code of Ethics — a list of rules that includes a prohibition against ICO investment by any «associate» of the company, as well as by certain relatives.
Industry trade groups like the Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association have come out against state - run plans, arguing that they will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.
The country's healthy trade surpluses and the Plaza Accord in 1985, which sought to weaken the U.S. dollar against the Yen and German Deutsche Mark, caused the Yen currency to appreciate against other currencies, which in turn made foreign capital investments relatively inexpensive for Japanese companies.
My first investment principle goes against many income - seeking investors» rule: I try to avoid most companies with a dividend yield over 5 %.
Tokens, if indeed they are investment contracts, are not typical investment contracts like stock or debt in that they do not represent a claim against the company, but rather they represent an ability to write to some data structure that the company has built (in common market practice).
And a vocal investment research firm that had bet against Valeant's shares published a report criticizing the company's accounting.
If SoftBank gains a significant stake in Uber, it could try to pressure the company not to compete as much against SoftBank's other investments abroad.
Legal & General Investment Management said on April 17 that it will vote against the reappointment of chairs at large UK - listed companies if less than a quarter of the board are women.
It has made two investments so far: $ 500,000 in UnaliWear, an Austin - based company that makes voice - controlled smart watch company that's designed for seniors to guard against falls or other health risks, and $ 400,000 in BrainCheck, a Houston startup that designed a platform to test cognitive health.
LONDON AXA Investment Managers will vote in protest against companies which do not explain how they will boost the number of women on their boards, joining growing demands for workplace diversity.
On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive relief (including an asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor assets from 2005 through 2011.
Regulators in Texas have obtained an emergency cease - and - desist order against a company they say is unlawfully pitching bitcoin mining investment plans in the state.
Can investments be withdrawn from companies that work against justice and sustainability?
Insurance companies swing a great deal of weight in the investment business and are instruments that can act either for or against economic justice.
The Hassad company went on to buy another 12 major farming properties spreading across Victoria, NSW, Queensland and Western Australia, competing against local buyers and raising questions about whether Australia needed a foreign land register and whether regulation of foreign investment was sufficient.
Australia is already having a painful experience with this type of clause — tobacco company Philip Morris Asia has commenced arbitration against the Australian government over its new plain packaging for tobacco products laws using a similar clause in an investment treaty between Australia and Hong Kong.
This step backwards came about as Nestlé was applying for inclusion in the FTSE4Good ethical investment index, which assesses companies against their own policies, rather than World Health Assembly marketing requirements.
New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.
Cole is the first Democrat to publicly announce a bid against Collins, whose fifth year in Congress has been marked by controversy over his investment in an Australian biotech company that critics said could have benefited from his work on a bill aimed at speeding clinical trials of new drugs.
And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).
Alli, a former Chairman of Odu'a Investment Company Limited and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in the state, while speaking in Ibadan, the state capital during a live radio program on Fresh FM, «Political Circuit» and monitored by DAILY POST, informed that it was certain that many people were making money in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents, the development he said had made it difficult for the President and the security agencies to defeat the insurgents totally.
Metuh is standing trial alongside his company, Destra Investment Limited, on a 7 - count charge of fraud to the tune of N400 million pressed against him by the -LSB-...]
Exxon Mobil also has adopted a proxy price for carbon, in some cases as high as $ 80 per ton of CO2, to hedge against future government regulation of carbon and help guide company decisionmaking around infrastructure investments and other capital spending.
Although the Supervisory Agency of the Investment in Energy and Mining of Peru has not yet taken action against PETROPERÚ for the recent spills, on February 18 it fined the company $ 3.6 million «for not having adjusted the facilities to maintain the integrity of the pipeline.»
Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney.
The company's higher - than - average exposure to equities and its high combined ratio make the company a mediocre choice for an investment hedge against rising interest rates.
Further, evaluate companies against alternative investments.
Aleph Investments will generally vote against any Board member who is also a Director of four or more different companies.
Aleph Investments generally will vote against proposals that make it more difficult for a Company to be taken over by outsiders, and in favor of proposals to do the opposite.