Sentences with phrase «big bets»

«We're a team that makes big bets.

«The folks that are innovating need to be rewarded so that the folks that are making big bets can take that risk.

«This is one of our big bets, I'll be honest,» he admitted.

These focused, «big bets» portfolios delivered approximately 30 basis points of additional performance each month, or roughly 4 percentage points of additional return each year.2 3.

In a study known as, «Big Bets,» it was found that domestic stock portfolios with strong weightings in a relatively small number of holdings delivered higher returns — both before and after expenses — than portfolios which held more uniformly weighted positions.

Mutual fund managers willing to make «big bets» by concentrating their portfolios» assets have outperformed managers with more highly - diversified portfolios.

2 Klass Baks, Jeffrey Busse, and Clifton Green, Fund Managers Who Take Big Bets: Skilled or Overconfident, American Finance Association 2007 Meetings Paper.

I love insurance; I know it intuitively, but I know that once I begin to take big bets, I may fail badly.

Most sophisticated institutions are investing on margin, making big bets on certain investments and leveraging up when they believe they are very right.

We don't take big bets on things, but there are people behind this who are putting the numbers into portfolio theory and we have a little different investment mix than I think that many other people would have.

For those reasons, it is important to avoid big bets.

It does not make big bets.

When these players beat you, it can make you wonder whether you should be playing differently — maybe you should start playing more hands, or calling big bets with weak draws, since it seems to be working so well for that guy.

Top investors, such as Paulson & Co.'s John Paulson and Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, placed big bets on gold in 2009.

He often made big bets on things he had high conviction in.

Big bets can make you — but don't let them break you.

The traders, investors, and hedge funds that blew up generally made the error of having «all in» big bets that did not work out, letting an ego keep them on the wrong side of a trade, or went into a position without an exit strategy giving themselves unlimited risk.

No big bets.

Not to mention how little performance can actually be tracked, or who has any real skin in the game — don't we all start out as great traders / investors, making big bets on paper, much like gamblers always start lucky!?

I wouldn't feel particularly good about making any big bets on any tech companies, but I think placing a few small, well - placed bets with some of the cash cows should allow me to gain exposure, increase my growing dividend income, and limit my risk.

Do you take big bets or small bets?

To find our winners, we went in search of investors who made big bets to grow their contributions into much more.

I think that means it's not the time to abandon stocks, but it's also not the time to take big bets the way you might early in the cycle.»

While he maintains a disciplined approach to the markets, he's also not afraid to make the big bets and swing for the fences when he thinks there's an edge on a trade.

At Greenlight big bets on Consol Energy Inc, Micron Technology Inc and SunEdison Inc weighed on performance, the two sources said.

You can tell the objective was to place big bets and get lucky.

«For me, it's the ability to make big bets — it's harder.

Just like bankers, publishers need to be wary of making big bets based on shaky financial fundamentals.

At that point Amazon will probably look for 5 to 10 additional big bets.

That's why the company is placing big bets on its electrification strategy, the latest example of which is the 2019 Cayenne E-Hybrid.

The industry is placing big bets on the way tomorrow's cars will be powered.

Over these past two years, we have shined a hot lamp on the problem — political handwringing, using yesterday's funding levels to solve tomorrow's challenges, expecting state and local governments to place big bets when the national government won't make long - term commitments, and applying 20th century policy to a 21st century context.

The remainder of the money «will be focused on big bets,» Gates said — research and development in education.

They put a stake in the ground around third - grade reading and made some «big bets» to improve the odds for early school success,» said Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading.

«Those big bets are paying off in more hopeful futures for so many vulnerable children in these communities.»

But in hindsight, considering the backlash from Congress and from parents upset about standardized testing, and looking at what the American Educational Research Association and the American Statistical Association and the National Research Council have said about the problems of using value - added models to make personnel decisions... do you feel like those were the right big bets?

Looking back again at your K - 12 policy decisions, you made two big bets through waivers and Race to the Top: Pushing states to adopt new teacher evaluations and standards.

I think we made a lot more big bets than that, so I think you're actually oversimplifying.

The foundation says it will spend $ 1.7 billion on K - 12 education over the next five years, on local, regional and state networks, «big bets» on innovation, charter schools, and research and development.

TheWrap's Summer Movie Preview 2017: Big bets, big budgets and potentially big payoffs in store as these movies hit the hottest months of the year

From «Black Panther» to «Ready Player One»: Hollywood places big bets on spring as the new launching point for blockbuster titles

In addition, nuclear plants, by their nature, are big bets and take years to build.

With big bets on high - risk companies, many without revenues or even business plans, venture capitalists anointed millionaires by the dozens, along the way adding millions to their own net worth.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state policy makers looking to revive long - lagging upstate regions are relying on big bets in high - tech sectors.

When it comes to the business of big bets, it doesn't make fiscal sense for books to offer huge limits on events that allow the player to gain an overwhelming edge.

Pinnacle opened this game at Iowa -7 and big bets early in the week helped drive the line down to the current number of Hawkeyes -3.

This is an indicator that sharp money (big bets placed by professional bettors or betting syndicates) has come down on Kansas State, causing reverse - line movement.

In Las Vegas, most of the big bets so far are still on New England, as CG Technology has seen four times the money bet on the Pats than the Seahawks.

Books in Las Vegas have also begun swaying towards the Seahawks despite big bets on NE: David Purdum reported last night that The Mirage in Las Vegas has 60 % of money on Seattle despite taking a million dollar bet on the Patriots earlier in the week.

That indicates that a large number of big bets have taken USC.