Sentences with phrase «big investment this year»

«If [the rule] had been «4 +1» as in the past, then we would have made a big investment this year, but now it seems to be changed to three,» Yuhui told Tianjin TV.

Not exact matches

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

It's a major investment, planned to last 30 years, making it the biggest oil project ever undertaken in the country.

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Kelly Evans at the Sohn Conference about Box being his best investment idea for the year, as well as the growth of big data and consumers» privacy rights.

Three years ago, Walmart (wmt) took a beating when it announced big investments and earlier this year the same happened to Target (tgt).

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns too.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

This year, the government announced a much bigger investment geared toward collecting housing data — $ 300 million over the next decade, including $ 39.9 million to study foreign ownership.

Nadal could be seen this fall on CNBC, BNN and Business Insider, offering confident reassurances on the state of the ad business and boasting that while the Big Four chose to batten down the economic hatches over the past couple of years, MDC saw it as a key time for bold investment.

The potential investment comes after a difficult few years for Yum in China, its biggest market by sales, where a series of food - safety scandals and management mis - steps has dented its reputation with diners.

The slice of patients above the age of 60 consumes about 85 % of the drugs and devices and diagnostics out there,» says Justin Stephenson, senior life sciences analyst at Vancouver - based independent investment dealer Haywood Securities Inc. «That is only going to get significantly bigger in the western world, which is the main market for Canadian health - care products in the next five to 10 years.

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.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Since embarking on this initiative, five years ago, Lunar has made five Big Bang investments.

If you're raising money for your startup (or keeping an eye on your own investment options), here are a few big trends to keep in mind next year.

Last year, Softbank invested in more than half of the top 10 biggest investments in VC - backed start - ups, including WeWork, Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, and ride - hailing giants Didi Chuxing, Grab and Ola.

It means if your investments take a big hit as you are nearing retirement or in the early years of retirement, your losses can be much more devastating than if they had occurred earlier in your life.

Engineering the technology to grow them big enough and pure enough required three years and tens of millions of dollars in investment.

The blood - testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes had a big year — racking up more than $ 400 million in investment.

Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

The world's biggest smartphone maker kept its full - year investment plan conservative and warned it would be difficult to increase earnings in the first quarter as demand pulls back from the year - end holiday period.

The Lexington is the biggest single investment into Liverpool's property market this year and demonstrates Mayor Joe Anderson's commitment to supporting investment and housing.

«While Snapchat and Airbnb will grab all the headlines next year, I'll be paying just as much attention to big «boring» equity and investment firms like Vista and Silver Lake who are snapping up promising start - ups, as well as CPG stalwarts like Clorox, Walmart and Procter and Gamble.

I'm a big fan of Congressman Jim Clyburn's 10-20-30 plan, steering 10 percent of federal investments to neighborhoods where 20 percent of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years.

Since last year, there's been a 7 % drop in the number of firms planning big capital investments.

Alibaba's biggest challenge will be to pull off a successful pivot to mobile, where it still lags behind archrival Tencent, despite years of heavy investment.

CalPERS already has moved to lower its risk of big investment downturns last year by pulling out its entire $ 4 billion investment in 24 hedge funds and a half - dozen hedge funds of funds.

While CalPERS» strategy of reducing its investment target rate if it sees big investment gains in a given year is unusual, its lowering of expectations is not.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission figures show that this segment of the investment and trading community are now holding the biggest short position in 10 - year and five - year U.S. Treasury futures since the data series began in 1995.

The investment is bigger: anywhere from $ 15,000 to $ 25,000 for a degree that takes one to three years to complete.

I have basically the same annual budget now than I did 10 years ago when my annual income was half as much, and is a big reason why I've been able to rapidly grow assets the last few years as I've been able to put that excess income into investments.

Knowing this simple investment truth, Buffett was a big buyer of Gillette stock over the years for which he was richly rewarded.

Thomson Reuters figures earlier in the month showed investment banking fees rocketed to a 10 - year high in the first quarter, thanks to big mergers and acquisitions and the so - called «Trump bump».

This year's Sohn Investment Conference will again bring together big hedge - fund managers such as Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn and DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach.

«Every penny counts, but if we step back and I'm looking at earnings of $ 6.60 per share this year, 2 cents is an easy concession if the president - elect listens to some of the company's bigger concerns,» said Howard Rubel, a senior equity analyst with Jefferies, an investment banking firm in New York.

Its costs have risen significantly as it warned investors, but its investments in Oculus and artificial intelligence could pay off big time in a few years.

Last year in April, Alibaba and Ant Financial completed a US$ 1.25 billion investment in the company, making Alibaba their biggest shareholder and diluting Tencent's own share at the same time.

Compensation often dominates discussions at the biggest investment banks this time of year, as top managers start to determine the size of bonus pools.

In the food space, for example, TechCrunch wrote «big brands lost share to small brands in 42 of the top 54 most relevant food categories in the past five years,» citing research by the investment bank Jefferies.

Continuing investment year - over-year, we'll be growing even bigger in SME segment this year as we saw in the first quarter.

«The effective tax rate over the last five years [for small caps] is about 33 percent, so if you go from 33 percent to 20, that's a pretty big boost,» said Steven DeSanctis, a small - cap analyst at the investment bank and research firm Jefferies.

In 2018, bankers say they expect another big year of investment, targeted more at sectors considered important to future economic growth like high technology and renewable energy.

Berkshire recorded big investment gains last year as it prepared to redeem warrants in General Electric and Goldman Sachs for stock.

New investments outlined in this budget total only $ 1.2 billion with big - ticket investments in several areas pushed back for years.

While investments in BIG data surged in the past two years, investing in BIG insights will gain more attention as B2B Marketers continue to struggle making sense out of data and analytics.

The technology has already gained momentum, raising funds from blockchain investment companies including Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital and Fenbushi Capital and the release on the 28th is already tipped as one of the biggest Altcoin releases of the year.

The world's 50 biggest investment banks made revenue of $ 1.6 billion from trading, selling derivatives and other activities in metals last year, compared to $ 1.4 billion in oil, according to Coalition, a financial industry analytics firm.

Next Coast Ventures might be able to afford to lose $ 1 million on an investment, but can an entrepreneur afford to lose five to ten years of their life working on a startup that doesn't hit it big?