Sentences with phrase «changes in the fund industry»

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Although the name has changed, it's still the same industry once denoted as «leveraged buyouts» — that is, the business of buying companies with a thin slice of nonpublic equity and mountains of debt, in which fund managers grab richly generous (to themselves) fees.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

When you do look for funding be ready to explain clearly what you want your company to look like in five years, how your mission will change the landscape of its industry and the revenue potential.

Maybe it's because the industry itself has changed a bit over the past few years, with some larger firms even proposing long - dated funds that, in many ways, are modeled on Berkshire Hathaway.

When said individual racks up compensation in the multiple tens of millions of dollars from an industry that was bailed out by taxpayer funds and then complains about changes in regulatory oversight, you know that individual is tone deaf.

Sometimes a startup is well funded but just can't seem to see a path of success like it thought and returns its money to investors, sometimes the market changes or the industry changes and now what was a «big» idea is only a feature but something need and so is true for the opposite when what was once a feature in time becomes a company.

Cendana founder Michael Kim was amongst the earliest and certainly the most focused LP to spot the changes in venture capital leading to seed stage funds and has backed many of the best in the industry so it's always a pleasure to come and share thoughts with all of these great peers.

Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives who are driving change in their industries.

With investment in fintech rising from $ 520 million in 2010 to about $ 3 billion in 2014, the financial services industry is well funded to drive unprecedented change.

Changes in real estate values or economic conditions can have a positive or negative effect on issuers in the real estate industry, which may affect the fund.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

The report is expected to feature a dozen recommendations on ways to fund innovation in the industry, change advertising models and redefine the mandate of the CBC in the news landscape, among other issues.

Piloted by Richard Bernstein, one of the most experienced and well - respected strategists in the industry, the Fund seeks to manage exposures given changing market volatility.

The investment industry is undergoing its own changes — namely the massive growth in index funds, ETFs, and low - cost investment products.

We're also doing the change in our voting patterns to really have «new management»; we want to ensure that we will have some money left in the Heritage Trust Fund so that our grandchildren will be able to pay for the land, air and water that the oil and gas industry has contaminated — that they will not do the remediation work on — before they leave Alberta.

Initiatives include funding for women in science and the trades, pay - equity legislation for federally regulated industries, and changes to paid parental leave.

The hedge fund industry is in the midst of an evolution - and those unprepared for the changes risk being left behind.

As owners of restaurants including The Perennial, they set up The Perennial Farming Initiative to provide funding for programs in «progressive agriculture» and to encourage changes in the industry, from farm to fork.

Currently, Alison is PI on the ESRC funded project «International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance» (September 2015 - September 2018) with CIs George Christou (Warwick) and Seamus Simpson (Salford) and an ESRC Senior Fellow on the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe programme with the project «The impact of a proposed UK Brexit from the EU: the UK communications industries».

Announces Up to $ 10 Million in Grant Funding to Advance Research and Provide Resources to Future Processing Businesses Legislation Clarifies Status of Industrial Hemp as An Agricultural Commodity in the State Establishes Working Group to Guide Research, Support Industry Development and Advise Policy and Program Changes Launches One - Stop Shop, Hotline and Webpage to Help Producers and Processors Navigate Industry Regulations and Requirements

Labour believe they can fund the change by closing tax loopholes in the construction industry, ending the government's «shares for rights» scheme and raising taxes on hedge funds.

Republican state lawmakers in the Senate are pushing a $ 100 million bailout of the state's nuclear power industry using funds from a climate change program meant to cut greenhouse gases from power plants.

«These documents are breathtaking, and they reveal what many of us have long suspected: That there is a campaign afoot by groups directly funded by the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations such as Koch Industries to mislead the public about climate change,» Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann wrote in an email to LiveScience.

Once these relationships are defined, the hope is that NEI and other funding, and ultimately collaborations with industry partners, will result in new clinical instruments that will benefit many more patients with earlier diagnoses and more sensitive measures of changes resulting from glaucoma treatments.

Changes in real estate values or economic conditions can have a positive or negative effect on issuers in the real estate industry, which may affect the fund.

If everybody else in the brokerage industry charges fees for mutual fund trading, we shouldn't really be surprised to see Firstrade changes course.

In addition, to the extent the Fund has significant holdings in a particular regulated industry, regulatory changes affecting that industry may have an adverse impact on the prices of securities of companies in that industry, thereby adversely affecting the net asset value of the FunIn addition, to the extent the Fund has significant holdings in a particular regulated industry, regulatory changes affecting that industry may have an adverse impact on the prices of securities of companies in that industry, thereby adversely affecting the net asset value of the Funin a particular regulated industry, regulatory changes affecting that industry may have an adverse impact on the prices of securities of companies in that industry, thereby adversely affecting the net asset value of the Funin that industry, thereby adversely affecting the net asset value of the Fund.

The market value of a fund's portfolio may decline as a result of a number of factors, including adverse economic and market conditions, prospects of stocks in the portfolio, changing interest rates, and real or perceived adverse competitive industry conditions.

In the Fund's view, few U.S. corporations are going to go for as long as five years without being involved in resource conversion activities - mergers and acquisitions; changes of control; management buyouts; massive share repurchases; major financings, refinancings or reorganizations; sales of assets in bulk; spin - offs; investing in new ventures in other industries; and corporate liquidationIn the Fund's view, few U.S. corporations are going to go for as long as five years without being involved in resource conversion activities - mergers and acquisitions; changes of control; management buyouts; massive share repurchases; major financings, refinancings or reorganizations; sales of assets in bulk; spin - offs; investing in new ventures in other industries; and corporate liquidationin resource conversion activities - mergers and acquisitions; changes of control; management buyouts; massive share repurchases; major financings, refinancings or reorganizations; sales of assets in bulk; spin - offs; investing in new ventures in other industries; and corporate liquidationin bulk; spin - offs; investing in new ventures in other industries; and corporate liquidationin new ventures in other industries; and corporate liquidationin other industries; and corporate liquidations.

In equity market - neutral funds, managers try to exploit market inefficiencies by purchasing one stock they think will rise and shorting another in the same industry they think will fall, thus cancelling out any changes in overall market levelIn equity market - neutral funds, managers try to exploit market inefficiencies by purchasing one stock they think will rise and shorting another in the same industry they think will fall, thus cancelling out any changes in overall market levelin the same industry they think will fall, thus cancelling out any changes in overall market levelin overall market levels.

The rules have come in the wake of changes in the mutual fund industry, as funds have now moved beyond the mere pooling of stocks and bonds into riskier and more complex categories such as alternative and illiquid investments and leveraged funds.

The changes will be consistent with S&P Dow Jones and MSCI's planned revisions announced in November 2017 to the funds» respective target benchmarks under its Global Industry Classification Standards methodology.

Fees are too high in Canada, but until investors start voting with their wallets and STOP investing in high fee funds there will be no incentive for the industry to change.

TORONTO, ONTARIO --(Marketwired - Aug. 22, 2014)- (TSX: XEF)- iShares, the industry - leading exchange - traded fund (ETF) business at BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited (BlackRock Canada), an indirect, wholly - owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock), has determined to change the manner in which the investment strategy of the iShares Core MSCI EAFE IMI Index ETF («XEF») is implemented.

The value of bonds in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions of the risk of default, changes in government intervention, and factors related to a specific issuer or industry.

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) funded two pieces of research on electric shock collars which were published last summer and show that electric shock collars can cause long term negative behavioural and physiological changes in dogs, even when used by professional trainers following an industry set standard of training.

But because most veterinarians believe in what the pet food manufacturers claim, (and recent graduates are no exception when one looks at the funds provided to State and private veterinary colleges by the pet food industry), they rarely suggest changing their sick animals» diet.

Sadly, in recent years we have become accustomed to a ritual in which the publication of each new result on anthropogenic climate change is greeted by a flurry of activity from industry - funded lobby groups, think tanks and PR professionals, who try to discredit the science and confuse the public about global warming.

As everyone knows (or ought to know by now), one of main reason controversy over climate change is continuing in the face of overwhelming evidence is the fact that ExxonMobil has the cash spigot open to fund anyone willing to deny the evidence — the Competitive Enterprise Insitute, George Marshall Institute and the old tobacco industry network run by Steven Milloy, Fred Seitz and Fred Singer have been among the main beneficiaries.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an effort to call attention to the detrimental effects of industry - funded, so - called «research» in the debate on global climate change, Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R - ME) today called on the world's largest oil company to end its funding of a climate change denial campaigIn an effort to call attention to the detrimental effects of industry - funded, so - called «research» in the debate on global climate change, Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R - ME) today called on the world's largest oil company to end its funding of a climate change denial campaigin the debate on global climate change, Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R - ME) today called on the world's largest oil company to end its funding of a climate change denial campaign.

These scientists (and, for that matter, anyone with a public profile who has anything critical to say about global warming) are whores — «industry shills», «corporate toadies», or part of the «well funded denial machine» — who not only prostitute themselves, but also sell us all out to an apocalypse for dirty, dirty dollars... Those who «deny» climate change are in fact, denying a «holocaust ``.

Yet journalists continued to report updates from the best climate scientists in the world juxtaposed against the unsubstantiated raving of an industry - funded climate change denier - as if both were equally valid.

The Union (Industry) Super Funds — controlled by the likes of former Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet and his best mate Garry Weaven of Pac Hydro fame — into which hundreds of $ billions of union members» money is siphoned — have thrown $ billions at wind power outfits (see our post here) in an effort to cash in the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the Commonwealth (see our post here).

Among the scientists who testified before this Committee on the issue of climate change in the last Congress, Pat Michaels was the only one to dismiss the need to act on climate change... Dr. Michaels may have provided misleading information about the sources of his funding and his ties to industries opposed to regulation of emissions responsible for climate change.»

Then Greenpeace released our March, 2010 report, «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» that documented the Kochs» systematic funding of the political system in order to stop action on climate change, including funding campaigns on climate Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» that documented the Kochs» systematic funding of the political system in order to stop action on climate change, including funding campaigns on climate funding of the political system in order to stop action on climate change, including funding campaigns on climate funding campaigns on climate denial.

The bill also gives further tax giveaways to the oil industry, leading to Janet Redman, from Oil Change International to argue that: «the GOP's generosity to the dirty energy industry in the tax bill stands in stark contrast to their reticence to fully fund climate disaster relief for Harvey, Irma and Maria victims.

Cramer has a long record of climate change denial (apropos of nothing, over his career Cramer has received more than a half million bucks in funding from the fossil fuel industry, more than twice as much as any other industry).

In 1996, when the IPCC released its second assessment report, stating that the human impact on climate was «discernible», a fossil - fuel - industry - funded group called the Global Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than it was.