Sentences with phrase «bought by an investment company»

This year we saw OnLive suddenly declare bankruptcy and be bought by an investment company, while Sony purchased competitive firm Gaikai, with many expecting it to be a crucial part of Sony's digital offerings on future platforms.

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The survey asked «If a company, bank or investment fund controlled by a foreign government were trying to buy a controlling stake in a major Canadian company, how would you feel if the foreign government were...?»

In 2001, with an investment of $ 1 million, Army vet Hulburt co-founded Rex Energy, an independent energy outfit he grew into a $ 300 million company by buying up oil and gas fields before taking it public in 2007.

HNA's buying binge came to an abrupt halt last summer after the Chinese government identified overseas investments by HNA and several other Chinese companies as posing a systemic risk to China's economy.

DeFrancesco was part of an investment syndicate led by Yogen Früz co-founder Michael Serruya that bought $ 15 - million worth of shares two years ago, providing the company with desperately needed cash, and later exercised another $ 15 million in warrants.

Fidelity, which bought Zenefits shares in the May investment round, marked down the value of its stake by 48 % as of the end of September, according to data from the investment research company Morningstar.

According to fund tracker Morningstar: «A mutual fund is a basket of stocks, bonds or other types of assets that is professionally managed by an investment company on behalf of investors who don't have the time, know - how or resources to buy a diversified collection of individual securities (stocks, bonds etc.) on their own.

On Tuesday, Wanda announced it would buy Burbank, California - based Legendary Entertainment, China's biggest investment into Hollywood, to create the world's biggest film company by revenue.

Rather than paying these pensions out of current income as it is earned or plowing their earnings back into investment in their own business, companies take their income and «financialize» it by buying stocks and bonds for their pension funds.

The criteria used to select which companies are included in the case studies was not financial performance based and nothing presented herein is intended to constitute investment advice and under no circumstances should any information provided herein be used or considered as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund managed by Sapphire Ventures.

The British artificial intelligence company Deep Mind Technologies, which Founders Fund seeded with a $ 15 million investment, was bought by Google in January for # 240 million.

Around one - third of Virgin Galactic is owned by Abu Dhabi - based Aabar Investments, which valued the company at $ 900 million and bought a 32 % stake for $ 280 million.

Among the deals killed recently by the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) were Ant Financial's plan to buy U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International Inc (MGI.O), the purchase by China - backed Canyon Bridge Capital Partners LLC of a U.S. chip maker and plans by Zhongwang USA, backed by a Chinese aluminum tycoon, to buy a U.S. aluminum maker.

These types of investment advisors frequently have discretion on how to invest client assets but instead of managing the assets themselves, they outsource the job to asset management companies by having the clients buy mutual funds, index funds, and exchange - traded funds or, in the case of high net worth clients, opening individually managed accounts with the asset management company through a third - party asset manager platform at a global custodian.

It has also been a factor behind dairying investment decisions made by billionaires Gerry Harvey, Gina Rinehart and China's own entrepreneur Lu Xianfeng, who just bought Australia's largest dairy company Van Diemen's Land for $ 280 million.

The Maggie Beer Products gourmet food business has sunk into the red by up to $ 600,000 and the ASX company, which bought 48 per cent of it, is facing a big write - down of up to $ 10 million as the value of its investment sinks.

The besieged company, founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, will be bought after all by an investment team led by billionaire Ron Burkle and Maria Contreras - Sweet, the former head of President Obama's Small Business Administration, they announced late yesterday.

Lythcott rescued the theater by forming a 50/50 partnership with Baltoro Capital Management, an opportunistic investment subsidiary of the John Hancock Insurance Company, which bought the property in 2012 for $ 10.36 million.

If everybody believes that the stock market is going to go up, the stock market will go up because it will be pushed up by the buying power, even if this is completely wrong on the basis of fundamental analysis, the gross domestic product, employment numbers, sales, investment value, or the real value of the companies.

The school pays nothing upfront and buys the electricity generated by the system from the investment company more cheaply than grid electricity through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

A company authorized by the Securities and Exchange Commission to buy and sell, or broker, shares of stock, bonds, or other other investments on behalf of clients.

Depending on the kind of whole policy you buy, the cash portion earns interest from the life insurance company's investments, or at a predetermined rate set by the company, or in some cases from dividends of the company's annual profit.

While this would mean that the paper value of my investments are less, and my net worth is then lower, it would also mean that my new capital goes further by buying larger stakes in the companies I'm actively purchasing.

After spending too much time doing analysis and research (I have a PhD to do) I decided to invest in Cadence Capital, a Listed Investment Company run by Karl Siegling whose investment philosophy I thought a good one (to buy undervalued and well run companies, only when prices were already on the rise or short overpriced equities, only when prices were declining)-- I still think this is an excellent LIC, and it has returned over 18 % p.a. since inception over 10 Investment Company run by Karl Siegling whose investment philosophy I thought a good one (to buy undervalued and well run companies, only when prices were already on the rise or short overpriced equities, only when prices were declining)-- I still think this is an excellent LIC, and it has returned over 18 % p.a. since inception over 10 investment philosophy I thought a good one (to buy undervalued and well run companies, only when prices were already on the rise or short overpriced equities, only when prices were declining)-- I still think this is an excellent LIC, and it has returned over 18 % p.a. since inception over 10 years ago.

Diversification, investment quality, and a focus on dividends are key when you're learning how to start investing in stocks We continue to think investors will profit most — and with the least risk — by buying shares of well - established companies with strong business prospects and strong positions in healthy industries.

If anything, the two industries may be converging, as we see mutual fund wraps using ETFs as the underlying investments and of course we are also seeing some mutual fund companies hedging their bets by buying into some ETF manufacturers.

The analyses used by TAVF for the purpose of making passive securities investments are virtually the same analyses as those used by businessmen to buy and sell businesses, and by Wall Street activists engaged in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts (LBOs), the restructuring of troubled companies, going private, and venture capital.

Measuring the quality — reducing our information asymmetry — of the companies we are considering buying can improve our investment returns by screening out the inevitable lemons.

Indeed, some investment practitioners — those who took the time to understand the concepts involved — have always used them in building portfolios by, say, buying funds that focus on small - company stocks or bargain - priced value stocks.

Analyze the use of cash flow by management, to avoid companies that invest or buy back their stock when it dilutes value, and purchase those that enhance value through intelligent buybacks and investment.

, he has a very long - term investment horizon (me too, again) and his investment philosophy is to find a family controlled company with what he considers good management and «glom on» by buying an interest in the stock market (I'm not there yet).

Well - established companies are key to profitable and secure investments: Instead of moving between extremes of risk, we continue to think investors will profit most — and with the least risk — by buying shares of well - established companies with strong business prospects and strong positions in healthy industries.

At Odlum Brown, we believe that investment wealth is created by buying and holding shares of high - quality companies for the long term.

In addition to small cap and big cap value funds I also lightened up on GM & GMAC junk bonds and added to my investment grade bonds by buying AAA and AA exchange traded debt issues that were mainly utilities and financial companies.

Direct investments in MLPs could provide more favorable tax treatment than you'd get by investing in an energy fund or by buying a specific energy company's stock.

In addition to buying these REITS in your brokerage account you can also look for REIT mutual / index funds offered by the big investment companies like Fidelity and Vanguard.

Some people (dog food customers are a suspicious lot) had assumed this investment was some kind of purchase or buy - out, but the company is still privately held by the Muhlenfeld family.

Google is already well known for putting its significant power behind clean energy technologies, including their work in solar power, wind energy investments and their data centers being powered by hydro - electricity, which lead to the creation of Google Energy, a company that has federal support to sell and buy electricity.

Together, insurance company Prudential and investment firm Blackstone will buy the portfolio of loans, which were acquired by the government when it nationalised Bradford & Bingley in 2008.

Mr. Klamann has also been retained by and successfully represented individuals who have lost multi-millions of dollars in investment programs following company buy - out transactions and Mr. Schermerhorn has successfully represented an individual sold an unsuitable universal life insurance policy.

Advised a syndicate of banks, led by HSH Nordbank, on the restructuring and buy - back of the combined $ 120m senior and junior debt made available to US listed shipowner, Dryships Inc; advised Santander and HSBC on the # 36.2 m term and revolving facilities provided to Southern Communications Group; acted for the Republic of Kazakhstan in a BIT and ECT arbitration brought against it by a Turkish investor, which arose out of a dispute involving alleged oil transportation and transhipment investments in Kazakhstan; closely involved with the development of WeatherXchange, the world's first weather derivatives platform; leading advice to Nokia on various employment issues arising from the company's acquisition of Alcatel - Lucent across over 100 jurisdictions.

«Our industry has been slow to respond to evolving consumer expectations and buying habits not just in the retail world, with offerings like Amazon, but also in financial services, exemplified by the emergence of companies like [investment robo - advisor] Wealthsimple,» said Steve Livingstone, Aha Insurance CEO, in a statement.

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Here, you're buying a policy that pays a stated, fixed amount on your death, and part of your premium goes toward building cash value from investments made by the insurance company.

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The investment decisions by four technology companies come in the midst of a heated debate over whether it is too easy for patent owners to extract large royalty payments, and whether patent buying firms spur or stifle innovation.

Ordinarily in an IPO the underwriting investment bank (the realtor in our example) would set the initial market price by buying shares in the company to set the market, then buying more after trading begins to keep the price up if needed.

It won't be until the company begins firing on all cylinders and the cryptocurrencies transition from speculative buys into actual proof - of - concept investments by the larger investment community that we'll see major differences between companies.

The company is providing investors access to a basket of holdings within the blockchain space, managed by an expert team of industry pioneers... and the best part is, you don't need any special accounts either; it can be bought right now from an online broker, or even put in an investment account like an IRA or 401 (k).

«We are confident that our Advertising Manager application can effectively be used by real estate companies, insurance brokerages, car dealerships, investment advisors, franchisees and other similar multi-agent organizations to plan and buy media in a more efficient and simplified manner,» he says.