Sentences with phrase «disastrous investment»

We heard from people who had made disastrous investments, often as a result of trusting in some supposedly expert advice.

He asks, «My exposure to international and emerging markets continue to be disastrous investments for me.

The Company spends shareholder money on disastrous investments, and then several years later, awards management special bonuses — again shareholder money — for having the «courage» to run away from those very same investments!

Closed - end funds (CEFs) can be attractive investments when purchased properly and disastrous investments when purchased incorrectly.

Again, you can read the details in the Australian Fund section of the performance report, but we have made a few disastrous investments during the past five years.

For every Uber and Amazon there are a million disastrous investment ideas, poorly conceived and even worse executed.

Solyndra was a disastrous investment for the U.S. government, pushed through by executive order over the reservations of bureaucrats.

This comes to a head in season two when he makes a disastrous investment in the speculative Grand Trunk Railroad against his broker's protestations, nearly losing all Cora's fortune.

Fonterra's plan to turn around its disastrous investment in Chinese baby food company Beingmate won't be smooth sailing.

«The family's plans could not survive another disastrous investment,» Moran concludes.

One disastrous investment can literally destroy your entire real estate career.

You haven't seen that in the overall portfolio returns, though, because the disastrous investments have gone wrong at the same time successful investments have come right.

The top hedge funds are stellar investments, but the rest are mediocre to disastrous investments.

Unfortunately, over the next several years even if the steel markets shift into a cyclical recovery, we fear, and believe, that Commercial Metals will simply shift back from the current strategy where management is supposedly focused on unwinding its disastrous investments, to the previous «strategy», where management travels the world investing in losing «growth» projects from Croatia to Australia.

Unfortunately, a below average operating performance fueled by a distracting and misguided international growth plan, combined with a disastrous investment record, has become the defining characteristic of Commercial Metals.