The PQ's multimillion -
dollar investments include cash for a new cement plant in the Gaspe region and an oil - exploration project on Quebec's remote Anticosti Island.
Not exact matches
Y Combinator has gained prominence in the Bay Area for its start - up school, a rigorous process that
includes mentorship and some
investment dollars.
The ride - hailing startup raised several billion
dollars in recent years,
including $ 3.5 billion from a Saudi Arabian
investment fund and $ 2 billion in the form of a leveraged loan.
Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of
dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»
Its previous
investments include regional department store operator Belk Inc, discount general merchandise retailer
Dollar Express and mall and web - based specialty retailer Hot Topic.
The window cracked open earlier this year when billionaire Peter Thiel's
investment firm Founders Fund made a multimillion -
dollar investment in Privateer Holdings, which raised $ 82 million for its cannabis businesses,
including Marley Natural (in partnership with the family of the late reggae singer Bob).
The leak led to a series of high - profile scandals,
including the resignation of the Prime Minister of Iceland after it was alleged he had hidden millions of
dollars - worth of
investments in an offshore shell company.
In his nearly 10 years at Venrock, Pakman has led
investments in companies
including Dollar Shave Club, Nest, and Misty Robotics.
The fiscal plan tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons was packed with billions of
dollars worth of new
investments,
including measures to increase the labour - force participation of women.
This decision will cause roughly 23,000 American jobs to be lost this year,
including many in manufacturing, and will cancel of billions of
dollars in
investments in the U.S. economy.
Targeting infrastructure
dollars to clean energy (p. 122 and 149): Last fall, the government
included clean energy as potential
investments under its $ 21 - billion, 11 - year green infrastructure fund — but the list of other options for those
dollars was long.
We invest billions of
dollars in the national, state, and local economies,
including investments in state and municipal bonds, stocks, real estate and private equity.
These lenders,
including credit unions and community banks, support local contractors and homeowners while keeping
investment dollars local.
A former options trader and CIO of an
investment advisory firm, Jill covers the economy, markets, investing and anything else with a
dollar sign on TV, radio (
including her nationally syndicated radio show), the web and her blog, «Jill on Money.»
The
investment world is skewed by the latest round of monetary policy experimentation by the Fed,
including years of artificially low interest rates and trillions of
dollars in «massive asset purchases,» to paraphrase former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
BarCap Aggregate Bond Index - A broad - based benchmark that measures the
investment grade, U.S.
dollar - donminated, fixed - rate taxable bond market,
including Treasuries, government - rated and corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed - rate and hybrid ARM pass - throughs), ABS, and CMBS.
The million
dollar list: New Crowd - sourced list provides details of Israeli Angels Photo Credit: Eden Shochat's Angel list A new list now available online
includes the names of more than 100 Israeli investors, and their areas of
investment interest The biggest obstacle facing an entrepreneur who's looking to raise money is getting to the right investor.
We conduct trillions of
dollars annually in financial transactions for our customers,
including the world's largest banks, broker - dealers,
investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and
investment firms.
Assets are invested in any eligible U.S.
dollar - denominated money market instruments as defined by applicable U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations (Rule 2a - 7 of the
Investment Company Act of 1940),
including all types listed above as well as commercial paper, certificates of deposit, corporate notes, and other private instruments from domestic and foreign issuers, as well as repurchase and potentially reverse repurchase agreements.
General Fusion has attracted millions of
dollars in funding,
including investment from Bezos Expeditions and the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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including broker - dealers, traders, banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, real estate
investment trusts, tax - exempt entities, Shareholders whose functional currency is not the US
dollar or other investors with special circumstances) may be subject to special rules not discussed below.
AG Andrew Cuomo just announced he has reached multimillion -
dollar settlements in his ongoing pay - to - play pension fund probe with two
investment firms and three unlicensed brokers —
including the Quadrangle Group, which used to handle Mayor Bloomberg's money, and the political consulting firm Global Strategy Group.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli proudly boasted he's made more than $ 1.60 for every
dollar spent in an
investment area that's been bulked up since he took office in 2007: buying stakes in New York companies,
including 13 in the Capital Region.
Kink says he does like the governors» job creation programs - the biggest one would use over one and half billion state
dollars to leverage billions more in
investments for road and bridge and other infrastructure repairs,
including a new Tappan Zee Bridge, better flood control, and renewable energy systems.
Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion
investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects,
including hundreds of millions of
dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.
«The current capital plan
includes billions of
dollars» worth of
investment in not just station repairs and maintenance but in elevators, signals, tracks, subway cars, and buses as well.»
In an interview, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said that, over the last 20 years -
including 2007 and 2008 - 84 percent of the funds in the plans his office oversees have come from
investment earnings, not taxpayers»
dollars.
In an effort to substantially increase voter turnout and civic engagement in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a comprehensive 10 - point agenda that
includes the city's first - ever Chief Democracy Officer (CDO) and a half - million
dollar investment to fight election hacking.
The funding for a new Wadsworth campus
included funding to develop private sector partnerships in the biotech fields as well, which could bring in hundreds of millions of
dollars in private
investment.
Eldridge, who is married to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, holds hundreds of
investments in bonds and stocks that total tens of millions of
dollars in a wide variety of companies,
including ExxonMobil, Halliburton and Marathon Oil, the new disclosures show.
ALBANY — Congressional candidate Sean Eldridge's newly released financial disclosures show he holds tens of millions of
dollars in
investments in a variety of companies
including Hudson Valley breweries, organic farm shares, Facebook and global energy firms.
«Outstanding issues
include under -
investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding
dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.
The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket
investments —
including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of
dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.
Kaloyeros has parlayed hundreds of millions of
dollars in state government grants and capital
investments into R&D partnerships with leading tech companies,
including IBM, Intel and Samsung.
NYCHA residents,
including tenants of the Pelham Parkway, Throggs Neck and Sack Wern Houses, together with housing advocates Community Voices Heard and Real Affordability For All, filled the Million
Dollar Staircase to decry current conditions and push for new
investments in the nation's largest public housing stock.
Only later did we learn that some of those critical
investments included things like repairs on tennis courts, a study on the mating decisions of cactus bugs, hundreds of thousands of
dollars for a plant database, and a $ 535 million loan to a California solar panel maker which, instead of hiring 1,000 new workers, as planned, just laid off 175 instead.
Major challenges
include convincing lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are as good an
investment of scarce grant
dollars as lower paid postdocs or graduate students.
While
investment management is the core of our business our expertise
includes divorce, estate, education, tax, and retirement planning for those with one million
dollars or more in investable assets.
The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education,
including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational
investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per
dollar spent, and those that do not.
In compiling this report, the authors conducted extensive research —
including interviews with state and district officials, along with an examination of curricula price lists — which provides a detailed picture of how public schools could increase the return on
investment, or ROI, of taxpayer
dollars.
The
investments are predominantly U.S.
dollar - denominated securities, but also
include foreign currency - denominated securities in order to diversify risk.
According to The New York Times, the ten highest paid hedge fund operators with close ties to charter schools also
includes David Tepper (number 1 at $ 3.5 billion in 2013), founder of founder of Appaloosa Management and New Jersey based «Better Education for Kids»; Steven A. Cohen (number 2 at $ 2.4 billion) of SAC Capital Advisors, which was forced to pay a $ 1.2 billion
dollar penalty for insider trading, who has given over $ 10 million to the Achievement First charter school network; and Paul Tudor Jones II (tied for tenth at $ 600 million), founder of the Tudor
Investment Corporation who has supported charter schools through his Robin Hood Foundation.
Research and Policy Opportunities Support for developmental education reform and guided pathways at community colleges has been spearheaded by the multimillion -
dollar investments made through the Community College Chancellor's Office, the governor's annual budget, and legislative proposals,
including AB 705 and SB 539.
Barrier to entry may be low, but creating a book that looks professional and is indistinguishable from a book published by a «real» publishing house is very difficult and requires a minimum
investment of a few thousand
dollars (when all was said and done, I'd put in around $ 7,500, which
included about $ 2,500 in marketing costs).
The
investment universe for this strategy considers both tax - exempt municipal bonds as well as US
dollar - denominated taxable fixed income securities,
including governments, corporate bonds, asset backed securities and sovereign and supranational entities and taxable municipals.
Portfolio allocation encompasses the classes of assets
included in a portfolio and the proportion of
investment dollars assigned to each asset class.
PortfolioBuilder uses a
dollar - based investing method, which allows you to buy as many shares as you can,
including partial shares, based on your
investment amount.
Investments in bonds issued by non-U.S. companies are subject to risks
including country / regional risk, which is the chance that political upheaval, financial troubles, or natural disasters will adversely affect the value of securities issued by companies in foreign countries or regions; and currency risk, which is the chance that the value of a foreign
investment, measured in U.S.
dollars, will decrease because of unfavorable changes in currency exchange rates.
The potential adjustments might
include further
dollar weakness, higher interest rates, or a shortfall in gross domestic
investment.
The top issuers in the Markit iBoxx US
Dollar Liquid
Investment Grade Index
include quality firms like Verizon, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Apple (Source: iShares, as of 10/16/2017).