Sentences with phrase «further substantial investments»

Their arrival marks further substantial investment in our highly successful insurance practice and demonstrates our commitment to developing our offering across all lines of business, including professional indemnity, financial lines and other areas of commercial insurance.

Not exact matches

The company is noting its substantial investment in U.S. research and development as well as tools, has further hinted that it may establish U.S. manufacturing for its P - Series modules.

Although mining sector investment intentions improved a little in the latest Capex survey, they still imply further substantial falls in investment during 1999/2000.

The Spending Review and capital investment plans together are insufficient to tackle our real economic challenges following the banking crisis and the alarming collapse in living standards — which may yet take a further substantial hit, not least as the economy stagnates and when details of the welfare spending cap emerge.

At first, the pricetag for these investments may seem substantial, but evidence suggests that these proposals would ultimately save far more in reduced costs for teacher turnover and student underachievement.

Among them are deleterious effects on children of unregulated and often substandard childcare; [9] lost productivity for employers due to parents missing work to handle gaps in childcare or to care for a sick child; [10] lost wages and reduced retirement benefits for parents who have to drop out of the labor market to provide at - home care for their young children; [11] a substantial downward pressure on the wages of childcare workers with effects on the quality and stability of the childcare workforce; [12] and lost opportunities for further education, [13] college savings, and other investments that working parents could make in themselves and their children but can not afford because they are spending most or all of their disposable income on childcare.

Despite substantial additional investment, Tennessee's ASD schools have fallen far short of their initial goal to reach the top 25 % of performance within five years.

And now it needs further private investment in substantial amounts to build the cheaper, much - higher - volume Atlantic model that is central to the company's success.

While ZMNO isn't their largest investment, it's their largest % shareholding (by far)-- which strongly hints at the substantial operating & valuation upside they see in the company.

Investors clearly understand that higher fees can have a negative impact on their net return, as is evident in the price war in mutual fund fees, but a few basis - points difference in visible fees is far less meaningful in performance impact than the often - large hidden costs.14 For example, switching from a low - turnover strategy to a sloppily constructed strategy that spends scores of basis points in incremental trading costs can cost the investor dearly in performance.15 The same holds true for the buyers of opaque high - fee products (hedge funds and illiquid private investments), for which substantial costs may be hidden from sight.

«In private equity, the [strategy] is to buy what is called a «platform company,» which is their initial investment, and those need to be pretty substantial — usually doing at least $ 3 million to $ 5 million EBITDA [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization]-- then they add on more investments in that space,» says Frank, noting that demand among private - equity investors for strong manufacturing businesses currently far exceeds the supply of sellers on the market.

Very substantial investments have been made in further developing climate models, with the expectations that these models will provide actionable information for policy makers.