Sentences with phrase «big firm name»

The big firm was a great place to hitch my wagon, but only a couple clients really cared about being associated with a big firm name.

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Typically, people need to invest about $ 500,000 to access an investment council — some of the bigger name firms include Gluskin Sheff and Leon Frazer & Associates — but fees are lower, about 1 % to 1.5 % of total assets, instead of a 2.5 % fee on an individual mutual fund, says Mackenzie.

One of them asked me, «Isn't it a good idea to go to a big - name brand firm straight out of college?

According to a story last month in Recode, big - name venture firms including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are participating in the deal.

Unit affected: Someone inside the firm tells us that some big names were cut, he knew of ~ 5, and for every big trader let go, it means 10 people in the back - office left

Many of Braintree's partners are equally recognizable big - name firms.

Facebook's shares have lagged behind other big tech names, making the valuation potentially attractive, says Tim Seymour of Triogem Asset Management, which has accounts holding shares in the social media firm.

Facebook joins a long list of big - name global tech firms to significantly beef up their parental leave offerings for full - time employees in recent months, including Netflix.

This is not as easy as it sounds, because many big - name investment firms have shifted their focus to wealth management, so unless you have $ 100,000 or more ready to invest, you might be too small a fish for them to care about it.

Add one more name to the new slew of pharma companies trying to counteract the public backlash to big drug price increases: France's Sanofi, a $ 126 billion firm known for its flagship diabetes and vaccines units.

Expect well - funded top dogs — companies like Bit9 + Carbon Black, Tanium, CrowdStrike — to weather the storm while more traditional big tech names and security stalwarts snap up smaller firms through «tuck in» acquisitions, cleaning up the field as the pipsqueaks wither away.

Big - name venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates have been behind Coursera from the beginning and together have invested a little more than $ 146 million in the company.

The list of signatures includes big name venture firms like Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners, accelerators such as 500 Startups and General Assembly and startups such as Casper and Flywheel.

While it might seem easy for their big name clients like the National Football League and Proctor and Gamble, Gabriel showed an example of Blue Fountain Media's work which exemplifies the firm's capabilities.

The NYT reports it has seen documents showing that a London - based employee of the big data firm — named as Alfredas Chmieliauskas — worked with the CA data scientists who were building its psychological profiling technology.

Indeed, the New York - based VC firm has a slew of big - name companies in its portfolio, including Alibaba, Twitter, Tumblr, Hootsuite, and Zenefits.

Last week, a three - person crew in downtown San Francisco installed a new billboard for GitHub Inc., a service used by software developers that has raised more than $ 100 million from big - name venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz.

Consider people leaving the «big name» payroll firms, accounting firms, or banks.

While these are two of the biggest and most popular name in the crypto - sphere, reports from Forbes point out that as of late 2017, 20 % of the top 50 blockchain firms were either fully - owned by Russians, or had partners who were Russians.

XLK includes all of the big names associated with technology but also a few that seem like misfits, such as financial payment processers or telecom firms.

«There's Sand Hill Road,» he continued cheerfully, motioning toward the wide boulevard lined on both sides with big - name venture capital firms.

Wealth managers at small boutique firms and big - name firms like Goldman Sachs help wealthy individuals, couples, families and small foundations to... Read more

From signing big name players to keeping hold of the best ones we have already got, from adding the firepower up front to strengthening the midfield and firming up the defence and then last season we sorted out the big away game blues.

Van Gaal has rarely been shy about criticising his big - name players, and during his time with Bayern Munich, star man Franck Ribery occasionally found himself the subject of some firm words from the experienced manager [L'Equipe].

But consulting firms can't work on more than one campaign in a primary, and if a half - dozen or more top - flight candidates jump into the Republican race, the big - name firms will quickly find themselves snapped up.

So when Harvey and Corky Productions booked big - name acts, the firm sought Osterreicher's photographic skills.

Asked whether Silver should have named a law firm that was paying him big bucks — money that originated from Glenwood and other landlords — she answered: «You would only need to list the income as «law practice.

Other big - name attendees included developer William Rudin, Prudential Douglas Elliman CEO Dottie Herman, Cushman & Wakefield Chairman of Global Brokerage Bruce Mosler, Fried Frank law firm partner Jonathan Mechanic, Michael Fascitelli, president and CEO of the Vornado Realty Trust, Newmark Knight Frank CEO Barry Gosin, Peter Riguardi, president of New York operations for Jones Lang LaSalle, and real estate It - Couple Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who recently announced that she is pregnant.

Although they are harder to find than the big name firms, I am able to use my sleuthing skills and networking to find them without too much of a problem.

But Germany's consortium, named Projekt DEAL, plans to hold firm, and it thinks a successful outcome could help trigger what some call a «big flip,» a global transition toward open access.

2 stalks celery, chopped 1/2 onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed 10 ounces firm tofu, drained 1/4 cup walnuts, finely ground 1 1/2 cups cooked brown lentils 1 1/4 cups quick - cooking gluten - free oats 3 tablespoons Bragg's Liquid Aminos 2 tablespoons organic ketchup (avoid Heinz or other big name brands because of high fructose corn syrup and GMOs) 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons dried parsley 1/2 teaspoon each thyme, sage, and rosemary Organic Ketchup, to taste

Hi there, my name is Marc, i'm 47 years old, but have a young attitude to life and oftern been told i look younger, work full time in sales, have a company car, i enjoy my work and meet different people, i have short dark hair, dark brown eyes, and a firm body, i have many interests, a... my tongue a lot, oral is a big part of my foreplay and have no barriers, licking every hole in sight.

Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's «hospitality suite» at a manufacturers» convention for a «big kahuna» named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.

After the biggest flub in Oscars history saw La La Land wrongly named best picture, accounting firm in charge of balloting faces new backstage protocols

who is suddenly recruited to join big - name firm NURV (an acronym for «Never Underestimate Radical Vision,» if you had to ask) by its Bill Gates - ish founder, the insanely wealthy and brilliant Gary Winston (Tim Robbins).

Director Pollack (Tootsie, The Firm) gets the story, but at the same time, big name stars and corny comedy do impede the overall message, and whatever sense of weight the film might have had is mostly lost behind predictable romance and silly car chases.

I want to get one for my niece and maybe my friend's son who is starting a consulting job with a big name New York firm.

I even considered hiring a top - rated Marketing & PR firm, at the cost of several thousand dollars, because some of the «big names» had used them in the past.

A big problem with independent writing is the leeches that feed off of you — so - called publicisits, marketers, pr firms, you name it.

All of which is just another way to agree that Charles is right and that replacing drm with watermarking is the only viable plan c for publishers (though I'd also suggest to add in my cost cutting plan above and hire a tech firm like kobo etc. to launch their own brand Facebook linked e-reader apps with a 6 month release window advantage on their own big name authors while they still have locked - in big name authors to speak of!)

I tried the two big names, along with a well - known UK POD firm and chronicled the results, listing pros and cons of each.»

My name is Annette Evalyn Swain, It has been strange as I worked for a big firm and I know I've had more people buy my book with in that firm.

Because we didn't know any better, we used a big - name brokerage firm to manage this money.

We had trusted that the big - name brokerage firm was doing their best for us, but that wasn't the case.

I would not at all be surprised to see NFLX picked up for its brand name by a bigger tech firm.

I've done a number of these setups, mostly for one big law firm here in town, and now their in - house IT department give my name out to employees who need someone to do the in - home integration.

The company recently merged with Zecco, another online discount brokerage firm, in order to fight some of the bigger names listed here.

Most of the 13 firms who have agreed to this change, including big names like BlackRock, T. Rowe Price and Vanguard, will start posting active share data this spring.

In a paper with the fascinating title «Extreme Risks, The Irreversibility of Time and The Retirement Anomaly,» Tim Hodgson of consulting firm Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute (I didn't make that name up) explained why we should pay more attention to big risks when planning for retirement.

I'm a big fan of going after the companies that charged upfront fees that were harmful to consumers but when you start naming companies like Global, Noteworld, Rocky Mountain Bank and LowerMyBills, you then put yourself in the category of the «et al» bottom feeder who will drag everyone and their mother into a lawsuit just to get a huge settlement that your law firm will keep.