Sentences with phrase «companies during the financial crisis»

The two banks received an exemption in 2008 as they converted bank holding companies during the financial crisis.

Throughout the last 5 years, modern CFO leaders have been helping their companies during the financial crisis.

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During the financial crisis, when banks stopped lending to small businesses, Robert Berman's company, Cinium Financial Services, stepped intofinancial crisis, when banks stopped lending to small businesses, Robert Berman's company, Cinium Financial Services, stepped intoFinancial Services, stepped into the gap.

By the end of 2012 analysts began asking why the company was performing worse than it had during the peak of the financial crisis, when consumer confidence was even lower.

CEO Leah Busque credits her fiscal restraint to the company's beginnings during the financial crisis.

Trying to go public during the financial crisis was like being a public company without any of the benefits of being public: briefing analysts on a quarterly basis, reporting financials — all the encumbrances of public company but none of the financial benefit.

A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office last year found the six largest financial companies, including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, lost nearly $ 16 billion in their proprietary trading units in just over 12 months during the crisis.

Abrams, who had the misfortune of taking over just before the financial crisis of 2008 crushed the sales of anything relating to houses, earned praise for running the company leanly during trying times.

The government stopped short, however, of bailing out the company as it did with major banks during the 2007 - 09 financial crisis.

During the recent financial crisis (think: 2007 to 2009), strong companies like Facebook, Twitter and Zynga grew significantly.

The company's emphasis on premium products in North America, such as Olay's higher - end skin creams, left it exposed when purchasing power dropped during the financial crisis.

The Guardian reports that Gunnlaugsson co-owned a British Virgin Islands — registered company called Wintris Inc., which reportedly held shares worth nearly $ 4 million in three Icelandic banks that collapsed during the financial crisis of 2008.

Founded during the financial crisis by Rob Frohwein, Marc Gorlin and Kathryn Petralia, friends who had experience with technology and start - ups, the Atlanta - based company has disrupted the online lending market by providing fully automated funding to small businesses in just minutes.

But Buffett knows the company and has invested in it before during the financial crisis.

Some companies, like Southwest Airlines (LUV), choose on principle not to lay off workers — even during a financial crisis.

Many companies that failed started during the recent financial crisis (and continues to suffer through), and some startups highlighted the larger market negativity as a reason for their ultimate demise.

Last year the company had $ 1.39 billion in investment and derivative gains related mostly to deals made during the financial crisis, making for a difficult comparison this year.

During the financial crisis, as the bottom fell out of garment maker Gildan Activewear Inc.'s share price, Glenn Chamandy made a bet of about $ 23 - million (U.S.) that the doubters were wrong about his struggling company.

Indeed, the company's profit barely budged downward during the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession, which is something one can not say for many of Omnicom's own clients.

The company underwent turbulent times during the financial crisis as it strayed from its stock brokerage roots and into the mortgage market right at the peak.

Elders investors will receive their first dividend in nearly a decade as the rural services and pastoral company cements its turnaround from some dark days during the global financial crisis.

Honda CEO Takanobu Ito explained that the 2012 model was developed during the height of the global financial crisis, which led the company to believe that consumers would be willing to forego upscale content and quality in new vehicles so long as they were fuel efficient and affordable.

The company, Seybold said, hit a logistical issue with fulfilling orders, and lost a large percentage of its funding during the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009.

It's too simple to blame the rise of digital sales on the demise of REDgroup, which had long suffered from financial stress, given many of the company's stores had suffered during the financial crisis from the general pull - back in customer spend.

The company continued to grow its assets under management and it also bought other companies: State Street Research & Management in 2005; Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2006; and then during the financial crisis Barclay's Global Investors and its large Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) business iShares.

I found his story very interesting because he knew was working for a company (Deustche Bank) that was going to lose a lot during the financial crisis, but he sought to gain millions by shorting their instruments.

A company with a massive dividend cut during the financial crisis and only two years of recent dividend growth, albeit; growth of 50 % each year and an increase this quarter of 33 %.

They are certainly big companies in their industries, but are they 1) likely to be insolvent during a credit crisis, and 2) does the failure of any one of them affect the solvency of other financial firms?

The financial companies in the greatest danger are the ones that have to renew a significant amount of their financing during a crisis.

During the financial crisis of 2008 — 09, many companies had a rough time and did not raise their dividends.

Jack was CFO for a financial services company (later purchased by Sallie Mae) by the age of 26 and took over as CFO of Sallie Mae in 2008 during a time when our nation (including Sallie Mae) was in the middle of a financial crisis.

(While these ratings are the best readily - available measure of a bond's safety, be aware that these ratings proved to be unreliably optimistic for a small number of high - profile companies during the 2008 financial crisis.)

In related research, Viviani, Revelli, and Fall (2015) studied a short history that covers the global financial crisis, from 2006 to 2012, and concluded that companies with better social responsibility scores, including those linked to human resources, as provided by Vigeo Eiris, had lower downside risk during this period based on Value - at - Risk statistics.

The company held their dividend static for eight quarters during the financial crisis, but every year's dividend was higher than the last.

Indeed, the company's profit barely budged downward during the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession, which is something one can not say for many of Omnicom's own clients.

Many of these types of companies continued to raise their dividends even during the 2008 — 2009 financial crisis, although some were compelled to put increases on hold for several years.

Cincinnati Financial's earnings were impacted during the last financial crisis, but not completely wiped out — and the company avoided heavy losses that hurt shareholders of many other cFinancial's earnings were impacted during the last financial crisis, but not completely wiped out — and the company avoided heavy losses that hurt shareholders of many other cfinancial crisis, but not completely wiped out — and the company avoided heavy losses that hurt shareholders of many other companies.

Unlike many other financial companies, including peer AIG, Cincinnati Financial wasn't forced to cut its dividend during the last financiafinancial companies, including peer AIG, Cincinnati Financial wasn't forced to cut its dividend during the last financiaFinancial wasn't forced to cut its dividend during the last financialfinancial crisis.

The company's sales fell by just 4 % and earnings actually grew during the financial crisis, highlighting the non-discretionary nature of whiskey (consumers have a craving for whiskey whether times are good or bad).

Heck, even from 2008 to 2009, during the financial crisis for heaven's sake, the company managed to grow profits per share from $ 2.25 to $ 2.92.

During the 2008 financial crisis, Buffett reluctantly sold Johnson & Johnson shares to raise cash to invest in Goldman Sachs, GE and other struggling companies.

He suggests investors start with «companies that have consistently grown their dividends over the last 25 years,» noting that these well - established companies «continued to reward income seeking investors with higher payouts, even during the global financial crisis.»

Realty Income Corp's resistance to a bear market and economic volatility was clear during America's financial crisis when the company's sales dropped by a mere 1 % and O stock declined by just 8 % in 2008.

The Hershey Company gets overlooked to their short dividend growth streak of 5 years after holding the dividend steady during the financial crisis.

During the financial crisis, S&P's strict index methodology forced the ETF to boot out the largest banks and insurance companies (since they failed to increase dividends), replacing them with smaller dividend paying companies that still met their criteria.

John's premise is that financial companies that score highest on most measures of corporate governance performed poorly during the crisis.

How many companies were rescued by fellow companies during the recent financial crisis?

In the life insurance industry, actuaries have worked together with regulators to put together a fair system that is hard to game, and as such, few life and P&C insurance companies went under during the financial crisis.

A type of convertible bond with an innovative feature that may provide insurance for companies like banks during a financial crisis.