Sentences with phrase «focuses the portfolio on»

NEW ORLEANS U.S. oil producer Devon Energy Corp said on Monday it was looking to sell even more assets than previously announced in order to focus its portfolio on three shale regions.

Working with consultants, fund sponsors, endowments and sub-advisory clients, 18 Asset focuses portfolios on achieving the desired results.

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As an introvert, at the time I was more focused on building my writing portfolio, and less interested in coaching executives on their communication strategies.

«We think the portfolio was too narrowly focused on one technology anyway, so that's probably a good thing,» says Chris Severson - Baker, managing director with the Pembina Institute, an environmental NGO.

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are looking to pare portfolios and focus on growing targeted therapeutic areas, says Vikram Kapur of Bain & Company.

«Increased commodity prices, coupled with a focus on operating efficiently and strengthening our portfolio, resulted in higher earnings and the highest quarterly cash flow from operations and asset sales since 2014,» Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement.

He is a portfolio manager focusing on discretionary macro trading and is a principal risk taker for Tudor's flagship fund strategy.

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

Valeant is currently attempting a massive restructure and debt payoff, including by focusing on key portfolios like its gut, skin, and eye drug franchises.

Armed with a better understanding of mobile technology, free from costly branch networks and focused intensely on the user experience, these online firms are muscling in on the lucrative business of providing loans, mortgages and portfolio management services to the public.

«The reason to do Tyson New Ventures LLC is so people can focus on examining deals and understanding if they should be brought into the portfolio.

The company arguably hasn't introduced a pioneering new product since the iPad in 2010, instead focusing on refining its existing portfolio.

Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming app focused on the soca, a Caribbean - based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.

«While March proved challenging, we remain focused on taking the necessary steps to improve results across the portfolio throughout the year,» Gap CFO Sabrina Simmons said.

Market strategists and portfolio managers maintain that folks should look past those lofty valuations and focus on what counts: A powerful, steady forward march in profits that should deliver near double - digit returns, or even better, for years to come.

Corporate venture - capital firms that benefit from high cash flows might be willing to spread out their investments over a few similar companies and take a back seat in terms of driving their growth, while a venture - capital firm is typically motivated to take a more focused and hands - on approach for its portfolio companies.

For example, an advisor could describe a philosophy such as a focus on long - term investing in a globally diversified portfolio and encourage choosing only low - cost exchange - traded funds, he said.

«We're focusing on the companies that regardless of the type of inflation — whether it's commodities or trade or something else — can pass on those costs because they have some sort of structural advantage,» said Eric Marshall, a portfolio manager at Dallas - based Hodges Capital.

• FusionZONE Automotive, a portfolio company of Primus Capital, acquired MotorWebs, a Seattle - based web design company focused on car dealership websites.

As the traders battle for the best portfolio of the year, FMHR trader Jim Lebenthal takes risk off the table, and Stephanie Link, TIAA Global Asset Management, is focusing on quality.

Lamar Villere, a portfolio manager at New Orleans - based Villere & Co., said that he has been reducing his exposure of small and mid-cap companies with international revenues and is focusing more on those that dominate their domestic niche in order to offer protection from the effects of tariffs.

Updegrave adds, «As for choosing investments for your portfolio, I recommend you focus mostly, if not exclusively, on broadly diversified low - cost index funds or ETFs, many of which charge just.2 percent of assets or less in annual expenses.

«While revenue growth continues to lag audience growth, we are applying the same focused approach that drove audience growth to our revenue product portfolio, focusing on our strengths and the real - time nature of our service.

«We will also increase the scope and complexity of many exercises in our portfolio focusing on joint interoperability, missile defense and crisis response operations,» Ray said.

Under Kvisle's leadership, Talisman has pared down its portfolio, focusing its capital on two key strategic areas: the Americas and Southeast Asia.

Decide on a niche that you want to focus on, get really good at it, build a small portfolio, and do great work to get referrals.

Under the agreement with Goldman, the bank's Alternative Investments and Manager Selection (AIMS) Group will select managers for $ 2 billion worth of the pension fund's stock portfolio that focuses on making investments abroad with active managers.

These included such bullet points as «Recent organizational realignment has strengthened focus on sales and revenue generation,» and «Well positioned in our markets, strong portfolio of strategic assets and committed to achieving revenue growth.»

In January 2017, SiteOne announced the closing of a research and development agreement with Amgen, a collaboration focused on combining SiteOne's experienced drug discovery team and portfolio of novel Naᵥ1.7 inhibitors with Amgen's neuroscience capabilities.

More broadly, the regulatory agencies in the United States and the Financial Stability Board internationally have work under way focusing on possible fire - sale risk associated with the growing share of less liquid bonds held in asset management portfolios on behalf of investors who may be counting on same - day redemption when valuations fall.

Biotech giant Gilead Sciences is beefing up its cancer drug portfolio with a $ 11.9 billion deal to buy Kite Pharma, a company focused on a groundbreaking new class of treatments that turns the body's own immune cells into targeted blood cancer killers.

You can also hire tax - sensitive management, or advisers that focus on tax - sensitive portfolio construction.

And with such an impressive portfolio, it amazed me how lopsided the content out there was, heavily leaning toward his accomplishments in the world of business with little focus on the creative interests, pursuits, and habits that may have gotten him there in the first place.

This has dried up the appetite for raising new funds and focused VCs on supporting their existing portfolio with later stage investing.

Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups.

«We also are focused on consumer protection and have developed a comprehensive portfolio of services to support all U.S. consumers, regardless of whether they were impacted by this incident.»

CEO Kotick said in a statement, «We should emerge even stronger — an independent company with a best - in - class franchise portfolio and the focus and flexibility to drive long - term shareholder value and expand our leadership position as one of the world's most important entertainment companies... The transactions announced today will allow us to take advantage of attractive financing markets while still retaining more than US$ 3 billion cash on hand to preserve financial stability.»

The company said in its fiscal 2Q16 earnings call that going forward, it expects that its «console games strategy will focus solely on licensing our great portfolio of content.»

The concentration in New York City and focus on the healthcare segment in their commercial loan portfolio leaves it vulnerable to geographic and sector downturns.

Our ability to compare and contrast compensation practices as well as focus on trends across sectors is the top resource for the investment community and their portfolio companies,» said Jody Thelander, President & CEO, J.Thelander Consulting.

Until Buffett added the classy See's Candy to his portfolio in 1996, he had largely focused his investment efforts on finding undervalued assets that he could buy cheaply.

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

Speaking on the turnaround of the ES business, Mike Nefkens, acting global HP Enterprise Services leader, said the company would be taking a portfolio focus.

TheStreet's founder and Action Alerts PLUS Portfolio Manager Jim Cramer is focused on Apple's blade story.

Prior to forming CorePointe, Mr. Fording spent over 12 years working for Ableco Finance LLC and Cerberus Capital Management where he focused on direct lending serving in a number of different capacities including origination, underwriting and portfolio management.

Sam, great input (as always), posts like this keep me out of thinking about getting residential real estate into my investment portfolio, instead I focus on retail / industrial properties, however I think I could manage few residential units «on the side», because of lack of diversification I am thinking about buying a triplex at the moment, and I'm convinced that should be the last move and I would not touch the size of my real estate portfolio afterwards, remaining assets are going straight to stocks.

Beyond exiting Latin America, our focus will now be more in certain products and portfolios, than it will be on exiting countries».

However, Wealthfront focuses on building and maintaining a well balanced portfolio of indexed ETFs, which helps mitigate risk.

They make investing easy for beginners by focusing on simple asset allocation, goal setting features, and low - cost portfolio management.

My blog focuses on value investing and would be in line for your readers that are looking to allocate a portion of their portfolio to individual securities.