Sentences with phrase «company taking on the risk»

You're making the monthly payment in return for the insurance company taking on the risk of paying out all the money at once.

Rather than just having one company take on the risk, multiple insurers come together to form a pool that collectively takes on the risk.

You're making the monthly payment in return for the insurance company taking on the risk of paying out all the money at once.

But in agreeing to shelter us from the risks associated with the life of renters, insurance companies take on risks themselves, some of which may not be so apparent to us.

Not exact matches

A big business that has a reputation to protect won't take a risk on your small company if it doesn't think you can perform, Boykin says.

«Color's $ 99 BRCA Test, the most affordable genetic test for BRCA1 and BRCA2 ever on the market, is now available to any woman who wants to take the first step toward learning her risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer,» said the company in a blog post.

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

Over its lifetime, the NES sold nearly 62 million units and was able to break out from the stable of other companies that were willing to take a risk on the home console market.

Convertible bonds are securities that pay interest, but give the bondholders the right to convert them to equity shares; they're basically a way to bet on the growth potential of a company without taking the risk of buying common shares.

Instead, he did it the same way a fast - growth software or biotech company develops products — with a small team, angel funding, freewheeling management, a willingness to take big risks, and a belief that serious profit lay on the far side.

The dilemma facing the boards at Microsoft, Apple or any board of directors on the departure of an innovative CEO is strategic: Do we want still want to be a innovative, risk taking company?

In a separate hearing on ICOs in Congress last week, Mike Lempres, chief legal and risk officer for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, said the company does not trade ICO tokens because it «can not take the risk of inadvertently trading an asset that is later found to be a security.»

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

The 29 - year - old founder of Hater, a dating app that connects people based on mutual dislikes, recently took something of a risk: His company created an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin caressing a pregnant Donald Trump and projected it on buildings throughout New York City.

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The company must have long - term potential; it needs some sort of sustainable competitive advantage that will keep it in business for years to come; he wants double - digit returns — «Why bother buying a business if you're not getting at least that for taking on the risk of owning a company?»

There have been worries that such practices mask the amount of risk that banks and other financial entities, such as insurance companies, are taking on.

Instead of taking on the risk of hiring full - time workers, firms are turning to staffing companies like Manpower to fill their labor needs on a project - by - project basis.

Debt: Taking on debt raises risk: Interest charges increase your company's break - even level, there's the possibility of foreclosure if the lender can't be paid, and principal and interest payments soak up cash flow that could be used in stressful times.

U.S. companies, he says, are willing to take more risks and spend more on his service.

The biggest risk for most business owners is that they'll be so busy running their companies they'll take their eye off the road — and end up in a head - on financial collision before they ever knew what hit them.

To avoid such predicaments, many British lawyers advise companies not to risk taking clients on «marketing» trips lacking obvious business purpose.

When you invest in a Bitcoin company, you're taking a risk not only on that startup but also on the overall Bitcoin space, said Pamir Gelenbe, partner at Hummingbird Ventures, a European early - stage venture fund, during Tuesday's panel.

That is why companies are now beginning to take on the challenge of finding their second and third and fourth big idea long before they are at risk of losing relevance.

Big companies tend not to take risks, so there's a big opportunity for entrepreneurs to take them and march on competitors.

Taking on the risk of lending to a private company can typically help a firm's chances in underwriting an eventual IPO.

Our employees are free to take positive risks knowing that they will not solely be judged on a company's profit margin, but also on factors that all of us at Virgin value, like raising awareness of the brand, creating happy and loyal customers or making a positive impact on the larger community.

Dadgar, who describes his strength as the willingness to take risks that move the company forward, insisted on raising capital to finance growth and hire more staff.

While this action involves products of a Russian - owned and operated company, the Department will take appropriate action related to the products of any company that present a security risk based on DHS's internal risk management and assessment process.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

By taking on more risk as an equity investor, one can economically participate in a company's value creation activities providing an enhanced return profile relative to a company's debt offerings.

Taking on that kind of debt would be a risk the company can ill afford amid headwinds in Canada as consumers carry record debt, said Stephen Groff, who helps run $ 6 billion as a portfolio manager at Cambridge Global Asset Management, a unit of CI Investments Inc..

Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?

We're certainly willing to take on certain risks specific individual companies, so we remain fully invested in a well diversified portfolio of stocks.

based in part on their business line performance, and thus presented the potential for excessive risk taking, the HRC concluded that the emphasis on overall Company performance in compensation decisions, the existence of robust compliance, internal control, disclosure review and reporting programs and clawback policies, the Code of Ethics prohibition on, and right to discipline employees for manipulating business goals for compensation purposes and its prohibitions on derivative and hedging transactions in Company common stock, and the Company's stock ownership guidelines provided adequate safeguards that would either prevent or discourage excessive risk taking.

On this measure, again, we find that Fortune's most - and least - admired companies alike had board members with the training and experience to analyze complex financial issues and to understand what kinds of risks a company is taking oOn this measure, again, we find that Fortune's most - and least - admired companies alike had board members with the training and experience to analyze complex financial issues and to understand what kinds of risks a company is taking onon.

Given the plethora of financial markets and investment options, you can always find an industry, economy, or company where investors are taking on added risk.

Johnson, who has lived and worked in Brazil, added, «In talking to investors and analysts, rather than people taking the time to understand what's really going on in Brazil, the easier thing [for them] to do is to say if the company has Brazil risk, avoid it — and that is unfortunate.»

The company was Zillow, and the stock market quickly put a price on how big of a risk the company was taking; from CNBC:

The move is a big gamble on the part of Governor Stephen Poloz, who hopes the rate cut will both spur companies to spend and help fend off low inflation, but the risk is that Canada's already over-indebted households will put themselves in even more danger by taking on excessive leverage.

Recourse factoring means you take on the risk of having to reimburse the freight factoring company if the shipper or broker delays or refuses to pay.

Ten million randomly picked portfolios performed better over four decades, once the risk taken was considered, than an index based on the size of the companies included on it, which is how tracker funds select shares.»

They know how to grow a company, have savvy business minds, never fear the unknown and have a wonderful ability to take on what others may see as a risk.

«Today, Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) as well as domestic companies and investors depend on International Property Consultancies (IPCs) to help them identify the right opportunities, analyse the risks, take charge of the overall portfolio and generate optimum returns on investment.

The existence of an effective insurance «floor» means that money managers at big companies have an incentive to take on extra risk to achieve higher returns and to hell with the consequences.

Analysts and investors generally use the debt - to - income ratio of a company to evaluate how much risk the company has taken on — and how risky it would be to invest in the company.

«The psyche of the U.S. company is often more aggressive than elsewhere and they are prepared to take on more risk.»

Return on equity should continue to grow over the next three to five years, especially as the company expands its reinsurance portfolio to take on longer - duration risks in an effort to spur results.

Reinsurers help mitigate losses to insurance companies by agreeing to take on some of the risk an insurer might incur after the primary insurer has incurred a preset loss level.

The debt spread is the excess interest burden a company faces to take on debt versus the risk - free rate.