Sentences with phrase «few years the fund»

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Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

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.

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.

There are exceptions, of course, especially among biotech companies, but then again, it's only in the past few years that we've seen any significant funding in Silicon Valley addressing issues of say, fertility.

That could mean the ability to work a few years longer than you anticipated, or having enough liquid funds to tap for years before needing to withdraw from your stock portfolio.

Critics have worried that the Fed has missed opportunities to normalize policy, but Yellen said «the risk of falling behind the curve in the near future appears limited, and gradual increases in the federal funds rate will likely be sufficient to get to a neutral policy stance over the next few years.»

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

In the past few years, various Chinese companies and funds have made numerous bids for high - tech firms — some with military applications — in the U.S. and Europe.

What started as a niche concept just a few years ago has become a large - scale and viable way for people to invest directly in promising ideas, which creates a new pool of funding while allowing small investors to reap the financial rewards of contributing to successful ventures.

Apple's long - term debt has grown to almost $ 100 billion over the past few years partly because it needs a source of funds to buy back stock and pay dividends.

That's significantly higher than the 4.63 % interest it got when it issued bonds to fund its own buyout a few years ago.

Maybe it's because the industry itself has changed a bit over the past few years, with some larger firms even proposing long - dated funds that, in many ways, are modeled on Berkshire Hathaway.

This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to buy and own cheap stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.

A new coal plant, funded by the World Bank, is only scheduled for completion in a few years» time.

The seed round of a few million dollars — in which venture fund Polaris also participated — will go toward getting the technology prepped for human trials, which 30 - year - old CEO Carl Schoellhammer anticipates will happen within the next 12 months.

After raising significant funding a few years ago as a 20 - year - old, the company needed to take a drastic shift over the past year to revive a struggling business model.

Among the many offers of assistance Cheryl Kellond and Sylvia Marino received a few years back when they gathered funds to make Bia, a women's GPS watch, was one from a truck driver who proposed placing an ad for Bia on the side of his semitrailer, which he drives to Mexico.

Warren Buffett, a onetime hedge fund manager, has more investing disciples than just about anyone else, and few would complain he has steered them wrong over the years.

Blackstone's private equity fundraising comes on the heels of it raising its latest global real estate fund earlier this year, amassing $ 15.8 million in just a few months.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

For investors who do not relish life on the edge, a few exchange - traded funds have launched in the past year targeting the autonomous and electric vehicles trend.

Jonathan Pollock, who had practiced closed - end fund arbitrage in Europe and Asia, had returned to New York a few years earlier, and now fused the principles upon which Singer had built the firm into an equity strategy that could travel across Elliott and the globe.

This came just a few months after Cynthia Vanier, a mediator from Ontario who conducted a fact - finding mission to Libya last year funded by SNC - Lavalin, ended up in prison in Mexico.

But in the past few years, it seems more and more hedge fund managers own more of the same stocks.

Adrian Sedlin, CEO of Southern California cannabis - growing operation Canndescent, earlier this year raised $ 6.5 million from investors to help fund a new, 9,600 - square - feet cultivation facility in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., with plans to open more facilities in the area over the next few years.

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.

The $ 50 million fund deployed capital at a rapid clip, which left less time for mentoring startups during its first few years.

Funding would remain over the next few years, albeit slightly lower, but the plan would also set an expectation for alternative energy industries to wean themselves from government aid in the next decade.

Boost your retirement funds as much as possible in the last few years you're still working.

This year has seen far fewer crypto hedge funds launch, but it's exciting to see the evolving strategies unfold with individual investors and hedge funds alike striving to beat the market.

And while it hit a rough patch a few years back, Tides remains a funding juggernaut, pulling in $ 218 million in a recent year and making $ 131 million in grants.

These are funds that were conceivably geared to someone within a few years of retirement at that time.

A handful of digital currency funds have emerged over the past year, including Polychain Capital, which has raised about $ 15 million from venture capitalists and investors the last few months.

A few years ago, entrepreneurs who sought to secure small amounts of funding to launch their start - up would have struggled to find any options that matched their needs.

The majority of the opportunity set over the past few years has been comprised of first - time funds being raised by new firms.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

The Institute expects funding ratios to improve as interest rates increase, leading more and more plan sponsors to consider buy - outs in the next few years.»

And while a few hundred million dollars over 11 years doesn't stretch very far on its own, Ottawa's infrastructure funding is typically matched by provincial and municipal dollars.

This will be a new monthly category here as I've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to Child Fund International, a great charity that my family has been donating to for quite a while and I've donated randomly to over the last few years.

This will be a new monthly category here as I've decided to donate $ 25 a month to start off to Child Fund International, a great charity that my family has been donating to for quite a while and I've donated to randomly over the last few years.

With online lenders, borrowers typically receive funds within a few days, and they don't necessarily need to pay their loans over a few years.

We held this view 50 years ago when we each ran an investment partnership, funded by a few friends and relatives who trusted us.

I think Mecham now manages a few hundred million in his fund, but before last year he was managing around $ 80 million.

Hedge fund manager tips $ US300 oil price: Pierre Andurand, one of oil's most prominent hedge fund managers, said the current reluctance of energy companies to invest in new production meant $ US300 a barrel was «not impossible» within a few years.

Kevin Irwin, President & CIO of Knollwood Investments, stated, «Based on their prior investment track records and successful investments such as Imperva and Athena Health, I sought out Aspect even before they raised their Fund I. I was pleased to be an investor in Fund I, and it is terrific that just a few years in an Aspect portfolio company in the cybersecurity arena has already done a successful IPO.

Anyone looking for income from certificates of deposit, money market funds or savings accounts over the past few years has been disappointed in their minuscule yields.

This big pop leads to a few years of undistinguished performance and investor impatience — where the manager may very well be doing exactly what their fund is supposed to and what their process requires — but to the casual buyer, none of that matters.

Though the secondary market has grown significantly in the last five years, very few firms focus on secondary interests that are less than 50 % funded.