Sentences with phrase «at alternatives as»

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«We look at ourselves as an alternative to owning a jet,» said Gallagher.

As banks and institutional lenders eventually made better use of technology and provided funding at attractive rates, they have claimed market share at the expense of alternative lenders.

You might expect Schmitt, who'd tried to position Alpha as a viable alternative, to take mild umbrage at this.

As consumers, particularly those in the millennial age bracket (people born between 1977 and 2000) increasingly seek out alternative modes of healthcare delivery, such as telehealth, Oscar can direct its engaged customers to partner hospitals and clinics, driving up usage and revenue rates at these health systemAs consumers, particularly those in the millennial age bracket (people born between 1977 and 2000) increasingly seek out alternative modes of healthcare delivery, such as telehealth, Oscar can direct its engaged customers to partner hospitals and clinics, driving up usage and revenue rates at these health systemas telehealth, Oscar can direct its engaged customers to partner hospitals and clinics, driving up usage and revenue rates at these health systems.

Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors, including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the company at $ 700 million.

Still, he added, «technology is giving the consumer a much better product — much cheaper, much faster, more alternatives — but at the expense of fewer workers, and we have to find ways for companies to create jobs as well as profits.»

As I said before, cliffs cause people to raise their heads to consider alternatives and should be avoided at all costs.

While the BCG report has the rosy title of Capitalizing on the New Golden Age in Private Equity, it says the industry faces some serious growing pains as more and more investors keep throwing money at the industry as alternatives (such as hedge funds) have sucked wind.

The years I spent at home as well as in an alternative career gave me a unique set of skills that, when strategically packaged, enabled me to distinguish myself from my peers.

One reason may be because Cambodian companies have been able to position themselves as low - cost, reliable alternatives to Chinese factories, where wages are rising, according to Afshin Molavi, senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Over the course of two months, with Kalin designing and Maguire and Schoppik writing code, the trio built a modest e-commerce tool that was designed as a cheaper alternative to eBay and aimed at sellers of handmade goods.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

Regus has a vested interest in exposing the dark side of at - home work — after all, it operates business centres designed to serve as alternatives to home offices — but the potential disadvantages are worth considering as more and more Canadian companies experiment with flexible working arrangements.

Recall bias says that if you recall something, it must be important — or at least more important than an alternative not as easily recalled.

As people increasingly see their previously stable career paths collapse, they are looking at the alternatives.

He had recently removed himself from his last start - up, an ambitious alternative - energy company known as Makani Power, and he had only just turned on the lights at his newest company, Other Lab.

Take a look at how you currently provide healthcare coverage to your employees and consider alternative healthcare options, such as less expensive coverage plans or health savings accounts.

Directors must insist on asking management to analyze strategic choices as an activist would: by looking at alternatives to the strategies the CEO is recommending.

The handsets, which are expected to be unveiled at the company's press event on Wednesday, will likely be pitched by Google as the ideal alternative to Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Google also likes to position its Pixel line as the best option for Android purists who want a full - on Google experience without third - party companies adding their own skin atop its software.

Farrell: Cars should not really be looked at as alternative assets unless you're dealing with the top blue - chip cars that a collector will always want.

So the alternative is no tax at all domestically, creating a true territorial taxation system where companies can be free to bring money back to the states to use for investment here, while also reinvesting in other companies as they build their global enterprises.

You could also use a service such as The Readability Test Tool (read-able.com), an alternative to the Flesch - Kincaid tool that's built into Microsoft Word, which provides document - readability statistics, such as the grade level at which it's written and how many passive sentences it contains.

But if we look at the fastest - growing firms in recent years as ranked by Inc., we see all sorts: pet food, alternative energy, online gaming, cybersecurity.

So leagues and franchises are exploring things like the Yahoo deal, and at the same time, companies like Google (GOOG) and Yahoo are looking at ways to market themselves as an alternative to cable networks and traditional broadcast platforms.

In 2016, Sonoma Brands unveiled Zupa Noma, a single - serve chilled vegetable soup, that it positioned as an alternative to juicing, and SmashMallow, a gourmet snackable marshmallow aimed at taking on the $ 36 billion confectionery space.

As a clean, renewable alternative to dirty kerosene lamps and diesel generators, Matthews, now the founder of Uncharted Play based in Harlem in New York City, invented a groundbreaking rotational energy harnessing and generating soccer ball, simply called SOCCKET — all at the age of 19.

The demutualisation was opposed by a group of members, some involved in the founding of the society in the early 1960s to offer an alternative to banks, which at the time were regarded as unfriendly to consumers.

«For the investors who don't have as much money, they'll probably come and look at Calgary as an alternative,» says local real estate agent Kirby Cox.

Although Yahoo says it wants to focus on its strategic growth plan, as mentioned above, chairman Maynard Webb (great name for a digital enterprise like Yahoo) confirms that the company is also «exploring strategic alternatives,» which is code for «Please acquire us at a reasonable price.»

IEX, which has up until now operated as an alternative trading system (ATS), filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to become a stock exchange last year.

As an alternative, there are several apps that also can help boost your paycheck, said Gerri Detweiler, head of market education at Nav, a site that helps business owners manage their credit.

Consider Prepaid Credit Cards As an alternative to credit, entrepreneurs can also look at products such as the PEX Visa Card, a corporate, prepaid credit carAs an alternative to credit, entrepreneurs can also look at products such as the PEX Visa Card, a corporate, prepaid credit caras the PEX Visa Card, a corporate, prepaid credit card.

Before joining HH in 2012, he was a Regional Director for AQR Capital Management in Scottsdale, marketing the firm's alternative investment mutual funds to large advisory teams at brokerage firms in the Western U.S. Prior to AQR, he served high net worth clients as a principal with a niche financial advisory firm in Phoenix.

This is why the United States has been at the center of the global trade and capital regime, and why, as I explain in my December 6 essay, if it withdraws, the alternative is not a new system centered on China but rather the disappearance of an orderly global trade regime.

Named by The Globe and Mail as one of 2014's best business books, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative offers the practical framework and insights busy professionals need to lead and live at their best.

That predominantly focuses on credit cards but, unlike larger global players such as Stripe, Omise offers support for alternative options such as paying over the counter at convenience stores.

As a general rule, a personal credit score below 680 will make qualifying for a loan at the bank problematic and a score below 650 will likely rule out an SBA loan, so if your personal score is below the 650 threshold, you'll likely need to look at alternative financing options, but it is possible to gain a loan approval.

As Sprint and T - Mobile try to keep their merger talks alive, let's take a quick look at two possible alternatives for Sprint if the deal doesn't work out.

Before joining Blue Wolf, Mr. Ranson served as a Portfolio Manager at GoldenTree Asset Management, L.P., an alternative asset management firm with $ 12 billion of assets under management at the time.

The founder of 1st Mariner launched the Baltimore bank as an alternative to big, faceless, out - of - state institutions at a time when banks based elsewhere had rapidly gobbled up 30 percent of the Maryland market.

I would argue that it is withstanding the test reasonably well, and at least as well as the alternatives.

The total amount of development finance or rail exports it can provide, however, is tiny compared to domestic demand requirements, and if the recipients find themselves unable to repay the debt, as history suggests could easily be the case, this becomes a worse alternative to misallocating investment at home.

Justin R, Fairmont, WV Hired at Xerox as Technical Support Agent Work Flexibility: Telecommuting, Alternative Schedule

They were seen as radical or alternative at one point.

Look at 5 Creative Ways to Raise Money for Your Business and alternatives such as crowdfunding.

Although Bitcoin is, and will continue to be, the world's leading cryptocurrency, companies such as Abra are taking a closer look at alternative currencies.

Making their Finovate debut as SelfScore at FinovateFall 2014, the consumer analytics company leverages machine learning and alternative data to offer a solution that the company says provides a better measure of creditworthiness than FICO scores.

That realization led to his restarting an apprenticeship program, which he pitches as an alternative to college — especially at a time when the cost of higher education looks increasingly to be a bad deal.

When a couple of Canadian economists published research (pdf) last December showing that using an alternative methodology yields much better productivity growth rates, StatsCan was quick to reject it, even though one of the authors, Erwin Diewert, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, is widely regarded as one of the world's finest brains in the field.

He served as Director of Markets at the London Stock Exchange PLC (LSE) and Head of its Alternative Investment Market (AIM), where he led the exchange's transformational growth strategy focused on driving market efficiency and resulting in a fivefold increase in market size.