Sentences with phrase «big bets on»

There were three panels held yesterday at their office, each covering a category Fifth Wall has made big bets on (the majority of panelists were from portfolio companies): Future of Cities Real Estate - as - a-Service Fintech and The Built World Economy I'll start with a few thoughts on 3rd panel, FinTech and The Built World Economy (the other two will come next week): A look at how fintech has disrupted almost every sector of the real estate... Read More»

Since Google introduced its deceptively simpleCardboard headset back at its 2014 conference, virtual reality has turned into the next big battleground, with Facebook and Samsung all making big bets on the technology.

Learn how they use a long view, process, and firm culture to make big bets on the future.

Making big bets on tired old franchises like Hitman and Tomb Raider will be the death of Square Enix, no matter how you shuffle the staff around.

That response says a lot about the reshaped Microsoft Mr. Nadella envisions — one with fewer internal fiefs and with more willingness to favor big bets on new technologies over protecting legacy cash cows.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Some banks are reluctant to lend because they have already made big bets on the condo market, according to Ayush Kapahi, principal at real estate debt brokerage HKS Capital Partners.

Chinese companies have also been placing big bets on American companies.

Tull broke away in 2013 and has expanded in television while making big bets on his own films, including «Pacific Rim» and «Godzilla.»

But with interest paid on savings accounts low, Chinese investors appear willing to make big bets on stocks and real estate.

Templeton Emerging Markets Trust results hit the doormats this week... Mr Mark Mobius who has been at it a long time presently has big bets on China (well via HK), Brazil and I was surprised by this one Thailand... Bargain hunting after the floodwaters perhaps?

Rivals have made big bets on TV while Vodafone has grappled with past geographic expansion.

For every investor that hitched their wagons to Amazon.com back in the late 90's there were several others who made big bets on companies such as Pets.com.

As U.S. box - office receipts decline, some Chinese investors and U.S. media execs are pairing up to make big bets on China's film industry.»

Besides establishing UnitedHealth as the leading insurer for big companies, Hemsley made big bets on what he considered the future for growth and profits, healthcare services.

After watching the American Giant inventory get «sucked through» in December, Winthrop was forced to make big bets on a supply chain that wasn't completely proven.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

Though relatively new to the scene, OMERS has been making some big bets on Canada's limping tech sector.

Arkadium was scrambling to fill in for the Crimean employees who didn't make the move and trying to recover from a couple of big bets on new games that had vastly underperformed.

We have really, really big global investment funds making big bets on Calgary, and it would be a shame if Canadian financial institutions miss that boat because they're too nervous about the future of the community.

We think about how can we make some big bets on companies in the categories we're interested in.

LONDON, April 23 - Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields.

CNBC's Kate Kelly reports on hedge - fund titan Stanley Druckenmiller's optimism in the markets, including his tech shopping spree and big bet on the emerging markets last quarter.

Lots of perks and upgrades, and a big bet on renters

Although some people will use leverage to make a single big bet on a stock, a more conservative approach is to put together a diversified portfolio.

Finally, one from the Fortune archives: Brian O'Keefe's 2012 magazine story on ExxonMobil's big bet on shale gas.

A year after announcing a big bet on Amazon, Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya returned to the Sohn Investment Conference Monday with what he called a more controversial pick: Tesla.

Heineken, meanwhile, can focus more resources on the two fast - growing Mexican beers it has already placed a big bet on (Tecate and Dos Equis).

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year made a big bet on Oculus Rift, purchasing the Irvine, Cali.

Ottawa's big bet on government - designated superclusters was designed to encourage academia, not - for - profit organizations and companies of all sizes to work together on strategies to boost high - growth sectors.

Under Armour, which generated nearly $ 4 billion in sales last year, has reported consistent double - digit sales growth as it expands into new product categories, places a bigger bet on the women's market, and sees stronger brand interest with key athlete endorsement deals including NBA star Stephen Curry and golfer Jordan Spieth.

Executives said they hoped to improve the chain's performance by placing bigger bets on lunch and upcoming soccer tournaments.

IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan and several other big banks are among those making a big bet on blockchain, the distributed transaction processing engine behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Though Amazon is far and away making the biggest bet on AI talent, there were some surprises too.

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The main culprit is that the TSA made a big bet on its PreCheck program and enrollment is moving slowly.

Fujitsu, Pioneer and Panasonic quickly joined Philips in the market, with Panasonic soon becoming the most prominent plasma manufacturer, acquiring Pioneer's technology in 2009 as a big bet on plasma's future.

When the company launched Discover, the special content hub within its app in January and its biggest bet on making money, it included content channels from a few partner publishers, as well as one for its own material, such as short series, and music videos.

The company is also making a big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the infrastructure for these vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.

His big bet on IBM never paid off (by one estimate he lost $ 800 million).