Sentences with phrase «few investments a year»

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LONDON — Pierre Andurand, a leading oil fund manager, said that lack of investment in new production could lead to a situation where $ 300 per barrel oil is «not impossible» within the next few years, Bloomberg reported.

Having founded a video game company, and with major investments in an eyewear company, Piqué is increasingly involved in business strategy himself; in 2017 he underwent an executive program at Harvard Business School, and he says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years» time.

State investments in innovative solar, bio and wind energy providers today will deliver breakthroughs in just a few years.

A new survey by the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) reported that the number of fund managers that expect the value of oil firms to drop in the next few years has doubled.

Fellow entertainment moguls Jay - Z and Ashton Kutcher have also been making venture investments in the last few years.

Because a few extra years of work will boost your retirement income more than higher investment returns will, once you take the risk into account.

The German company has earmarked 10 billion euros in investment in e-mobility over the next few years.

Oil and gas firms worldwide have cut their share in investment given the subdued market prices in the last few years.

The potential investment comes after a difficult few years for Yum in China, its biggest market by sales, where a series of food - safety scandals and management mis - steps has dented its reputation with diners.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

Over the next few years, you'll ideally see them harvest the profits out of those investments.»

«A few years ago I would have dismissed this kind of deal as too expensive, but I did the analysis and was pleased to find it will only take a few midsize deals to pay back the investment,» McElaney says.

If you're raising money for your startup (or keeping an eye on your own investment options), here are a few big trends to keep in mind next year.

Pershing Square also dropped a few investments in the second quarter, selling off nearly 11.7 million shares of spirits company Beam, which sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.

Somalia has been at war for decades and until the last few years it has struggled to attract foreign investment.

In 2014, Barcelona - born Scytl, an electronic voting tool, secured $ 104 million in investment; in fact, it's changed the global landscape of political engagement in just a few years.

A small investment in Bitcoin a few years ago would be a small fortune now, which predicts absolutely nothing about what an investment now will be worth later.

A few years ago, I was courting a company for a gigantic investment package that included retirement, investments, insurance, and more.

It merits noting that Acumen was one of the investment firms that nudged MTY toward income trusts a few years ago.

The moment that investments start to turn south, everybody wants to know what's going on and whether it will continue, even though the loss may only happen over a few days and not even months or years.

Chinese investment in U.S. companies has skyrocketed over the last few years, particularly as monoliths such as Alibaba Group prepare to go public.

Maybe that's why socially responsible investments in the United States actually grew 4 percent faster than any other sector of U.S. stocks in the past few years.

Over the past few years, companies have invested over $ 1,200 per employee on direct learning expenditures, and this investment will continue into 2017.

The beverage company's new guidelines for a plan already approved by shareholders at the annual meeting earlier this year mean it will issue fewer stock awards each year, addressing concerns that the plan would dilute their investments and was too generous.

In all, disclosed investment in enterprise - storage startups has amounted to about a billion dollars per year in each of the last few years, says Simon Robinson, a research vice president for storage and information management with 451 Research, which has been covering the space since 2000.

Some of the Oracle of Omaha's best investments of his entire career have been ones he has made in the past few years.

And yet, some of Buffett's best investments of his entire career have been ones he has made in the past few years.

And so as buybacks have increased in the last few years, the question is whether this is a good investment for companies.

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Allan Small, a senior investment adviser at DMW Securities, has avoided government bonds for the past few years because they pay so little.

Not many people were used [to this investment model] a few years back, but many are using it now.»

When you get to the point where you're only spending a few hours a year managing your investments you can move on to the next thing.

During the last few years of the program's history, there has been $ 5 billion in direct investment and 85,500 directly - created full - time jobs.

The problems at the German bank can not be overcome in just a few years, said Union Investment's Ingo Speich.

A few years and some corporate investment from Apple later and voila — military technology in the palm of our hands.

Now, a fundraising method that you likely had never heard of until a few months ago is on track this year to exceed all prior VC investment in blockchain, which has totaled a cumulative $ 1.7 billion over the past eight years, PitchBook says.

A divestment of Ortho - Clinical Diagnostics, which Carlyle acquired from Johnson & Johnson in 2014 for $ 4 billion, would show how buyout firms can turn unloved businesses of major corporations into lucrative investments within a few years.

A divestment of Ortho - Clinical Diagnostics would show how buyout firms can turn unloved businesses of major corporations into lucrative investments within a few years.

A few years ago a former client of certified financial planner Rebecca Kennedy had wanted to help out his 20 - something son with an investment opportunity.

«Normally, one of the great disadvantages of investment - oriented life insurance is that front - end commissions are so high that it takes a few years to start building up any type of cash value.

The investment management business has been a key focus for Goldman Sachs over the last few years.

I have basically the same annual budget now than I did 10 years ago when my annual income was half as much, and is a big reason why I've been able to rapidly grow assets the last few years as I've been able to put that excess income into investments.

After the investment period has ended, the fund legally is not allowed to make new investments, it should be spending the remainder of the fund duration (funds are usually ten years long with a few one year extensions) harvesting its investments for liquidity.

Although financial services companies including PIMCO and Pacific Life have dominated the local economy over the past few decades, Newport Beach has built a technology cluster in recent years: Investment app Acorns and CudaSign, an e-signature company, were both started in Newport Beach.

Even if social media is predictable at the moment, that martech investment could make the space more interesting in the next few years.

«You see people from Wharton coming out to Silicon Valley now» is how Rabois put it, whereas a few years ago, «a lot of those people would have been at investment banks.»

Overall, private investment in tech is on the rise — but a shrinking proportion of that money is coming from the investors who've been showing the best returns in the last few years and setting market trends with their deals.

Cliff Asness wrote a great piece for the Financial Analysts Journal a few years ago detailing his top ten pet peeves about the investment industry.

Its costs have risen significantly as it warned investors, but its investments in Oculus and artificial intelligence could pay off big time in a few years.

After that, I have a few thousand a year leftover for after tax investments / savings, but that's not totaling $ 160,000 anytime soon.