Sentences with phrase «focuses on equity at»

This highly engaging, interactive, self - reflective workshop focuses on equity at the classroom level.

Perhaps one of the reasons was that the improvement effort was overly focused on equity at the expense of justice.

Not exact matches

At least one private equity firm, Privateer Holdings, has been established to focus on the «emerging legal cannabis field.»

«People have given up on them,» says Phil Davidson, portfolio manager at the $ 13 billion, value - focused American Century Equity Income Fund.

While accelerator programs have long offered this perk to startups, usually in exchange for equity, entrepreneurs are finding other types of free space available, says Steve King, partner at Emergent Research, a consulting firm focused on small business in Lafayette, Calif..

«Now that the volatility event is over, investors will focus on the economic data and the fundamentals,» said Sameer Samana, global equity and technical strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute in St. Louis.

The SEC's focus on the average net IRR disclosures, which has not been previously reported, marks a new phase in the agency's efforts to regulate private equity and comes at a time when the industry is already under pressure from investors to simplify its fees and expenses structure.

Equities in Europe closed lower Wednesday afternoon as investors began to focus on earnings at the start of a new reporting season.

The woman, who works at a company in eastern Tokyo, said she plans to invest more in stocks than in debt, with a focus on foreign equities including those from emerging markets.

«While everyone is focused on valuation and bubbles (to some degree rightfully so), the fact remains that the last few years have been supported by a low level of net equity issuance that has, all else equal, supported prices,» says Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG.

From 1997 to 2005 he was a partner at the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and focused on public debt dynamics while at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

Take a close look at the Vanguard Small - Cap Growth ETF, which focuses on domestic small - cap equities with a fundamental growth strategy.

For these reasons, this article focuses on the causal uncertainty surrounding the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash, and in particular on the unresolved concern that «no clear link has been identified between the [start of the U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash at 9:33] and open of the U.S. equity market at 9:30 ET» [1].

Leonard is a former portfolio manager and principal at Brecken Capital LLC, a hedge fund focused on domestic equities.

YouEarnedIt, a startup focused on rewarding employees at companies, has landed an investment from Vista Equity Partners, based in Austin.

Prior to Kendall Investments, Mr. Bright was a Senior Associate at Cambridge Associates, a Boston - based investment consulting firm, where he focused on private equity investments.

Still, most literature has focused on each country in isolation — there have been reports on UK equity crowdfunding, articles on Canadian equity crowdfunding, and books on US equity crowdfunding — but very little on equity crowdfunding in totality, and nothing at all on what campaigns from different parts of the world can learn from each other.

At Empire, Mr. Miller focused on operationally intensive private equity investments in a variety of industries.

Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Ingersoll was a Partner at J.P. Morgan Partners (formerly Chase Capital Partners) from 1993 to 2002, where he focused primarily on private equity and restructuring situations in various industries including healthcare, branded food products and distribution, consumer products, specialty insurance and outsourced business services.

Prior to joining Alpine, Ramsey worked at Revolution Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on control transactions across a variety of industry verticals.

Ben is a Partner at Susquehanna Growth Equity, where he focuses on enterprise software companies serving slow - adopting and fragmented industries.

In that role, Mike focused on supporting Passive Equity products as a subject matter expert and a liaison between the portfolio management team and the client - facing functions at SSGA.

Additionally, except as noted below in certain circumstances, we do not provide cash or equity incentives tied to performance criteria, which could cause employees to focus solely on short - term returns at the expense of long - term growth and innovation.

Exchange - traded fund use in Europe is likely to broaden from its current focus on equities, according to participants at the inaugural «Inside ETFs Europe Conference», held in Amsterdam this week.

At Franklin Templeton Equity, we focus most on understanding economic conditions and the financial health and fundamentals of the individual companies in the various sectors and industries in which we are investing.

Stance Capital, LLC is a Registered Investment advisor (RIA) with the Massachusetts Securities Division, primarily focused on constructing and bringing to market public equity portfolios that mitigate material risk and generate excess returns while at the same time allowing investors to align their capital with their belief systems.

Daniel Abrahams is the Managing Partner at Alfreton Capital, which advises a private investment fund focused on European equities.

As a former Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, Bud focused on equity investments in larger companies in the software, software enabled services, semiconductors, systems, and related distribution businesses.

Amjad Ahmad, Senior Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investments at NBK Capital commented, «We will continue to focus on middle market private equity investments where we believe there are significant opportunities to drive value and returns.

Prior to working at Backlash Solutions, Assaf was an associate at Bryant Park Capital, a New York - based investment bank focusing on debt and equity financing and M&A advisory.

John also served as the VP and Head of Corporate Development for an early - stage renewable energy and feed company based in Florida as well as a Director in Business Development at Valens Capital, a billion dollar hedge fund focused on providing flexible, custom - tailored and cost - effective debt and equity growth financing solutions to small - cap public and private companies.

From January 2000 until August 2009, Mr. Meyercord focused on investing in public equities in the Asian real estate, telecommunications and consumer sectors at several different hedge funds, including Kelusa Capital (2007 - 2009), Avenue Capital (2005 - 2007) and Banyan Fund Management (2000 - 2005).

Started career as an investor at Goldman Sachs, focused on trading illiquid, small cap equities and managing a book of $ 4.5 b in AUM.

Before joining Alignvest, Mr. Duggan was an Associate at Onex Partners focused on evaluating private equity investments across a number of industries, including Onex's investments in BBAM, FLY Leasing, and Meridian Aviation.

Prior to his time at CIBC, Tyler was an Analyst at Summer Street Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market companies, based in Buffalo, New York.

Prior to joining Alignvest, Mr. Adams was a partner at London - based MAB Partners, a multi-billion dollar independent alternative investment group offering sophisticated investors access to alternative investment funds, with a focus on hedge funds and private equity.

Previously, Mr. Satchu spent 12 years in New York City where he was a General Partner at Fenway Partners, a US$ 1.4 billion private equity firm focused on acquiring leading middle market companies typically from families or large corporations and a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group.

Luca spent the last 9 years in Asia, based in Singapore, and prior to NOON was Investment Manager at Valeur, a multi-billion dollar asset manager with focus on structured credit and equity derivatives.

But the capital distributions at Direxion also extend to a host of equity investments, including a bull and bear pair of ETFs focused on gold mining companies, which is more of a mystery.

Our Business Over Breakfast on June 19 at the Technology Innovation Centre in Dartmouth will focus on equity crowdfunding in Nova Scotia.

«We have tremendous equity in the Bennigan's and Steak and Ale brands, and in the months ahead, we will be focusing all our energies on returning them to their rightful place at the leading edge of casual dining.»

With that in mind, state postseason bracketing now discards enrollment entirely, and focuses exclusively on competitive equity, on matching teams at similar levels, regardless of school size.

She currently teaches at Evergreen State College, and her particular interests are health equity, global health issues, and the health of women and children, with a focus on the elimination of maternal infant health inequities in the US.

This Roncesvalles shop isn't just for kids, but it has an impressive children's section at the back, filled with unusual titles and educational books that focus on social justice, equity, and diversity.

Speaking at a press conference at Teamsters Local 237, she continued her recent public efforts at promoting the «Women's Equality Agenda,» with a particular focus today on the pay equity component of that agenda and proposed law.

Nearly the entire package of measures — which focused on pay equity and curtailing human trafficking — has become law, save for a controversial measure aimed at strengthening abortion rights.

You've concerned editors at the Post-Star, who worry that your focus won't be on serving the interests of NY 21, but instead will be on private companies, that you find equity money to start or invest in while in Congress.

Before that, Seggos worked as a vice president of business development at the Hugo Neu Corp., a private - equity firm that focuses on recycling and sustainable industry.