Sentences with phrase «goal return of»

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Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

The goal is to make BlackBerry's handset business cash - flow positive through the Foxconn agreement, with hopes of returning to a profit in fiscal 2016, Chen said.

With overall returns projected to range in the mid-single digits — that includes dividends — and guaranteed savings vehicles paying literally nothing, they will need to do more of the heavy lifting to meet their retirement goals.

Company goals for the first half of the year related to sales growth, inventory accuracy, return on assets (ROA), and customer satisfaction.

«Tax reform does not change our capital return goals as we remain committed to returning at least $ 60 billion of capital in the current and next two CCAR cycles, subject to regulatory approval,» CEO Michael Corbat said in a press release on Tuesday.

While return on investment might be the end - goal of social media presence, focusing on ROI in monetary terms isn't a good strategy, particularly in the short - term, even for smaller brands.

Second, while it makes sense that an environment in which investments, like government debt, are yielding a smaller return might cause people to spend less today in order to make their retirement goals, there just isn't a lot of evidence that this happens in the real world.

Its goal is highly ambitious: to create an economic sector composed of triple - bottom - line businesses — that is, companies explicitly committed not just to earning financial returns but to creating social and environmental value.

Allen Klevens, CEO of Los Angeles - based Prescriptive Music, which works with companies such as The Cheesecake Factory and Century 21 to create music playlists, says the goal of music in a store should be to get customers to spend more money, stay longer, and, most importantly, have them return.

When he returned in 1997, one of Jobs» first goals was to review the company's bloated product line.

Vanguard's goal in providing expected rates of return is not to scare investors out of the market, but to reiterate why it believes a globally diversified portfolio is the best option for most investors.

«There's a greater urgency among women investors to use their growing financial clout in support of other women and to invest in the future they want — rejecting outdated views about sacrificing the potential for investment returns or forgoing their own goals in order to do so,» Krawcheck said in a statement.

Along the same stream of the Sharpe ratio's risk / return measures in finance, and the «minimum viable product» in the tech world, the strategy is about being calculated and conscious in our efforts, with a flexible, rather than fixed process and goal.

That is especially true if the goal of their overall game plan is to increase foot traffic and sales, and have more satisfied and loyal customers who'll make return visits throughout the year — not just during the holidays.

In his paper, economist Ricardo Reis put forward a new way for the Fed to pay banks returns on the money they keep at the central bank, a tool that could potentially put the Fed's goal of keeping inflation at 2 % on autopilot.

Fitbit CEO James Park says his goal for Ionic is to capture a lot more of those high - end sales and to return the company to growth.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

Here's how: Start with the $ 230,000 asking price (which includes inventory), figure in another $ 70,000 in expansion capital, and then set a goal of a 25 % to 40 % return on capital (appropriate given the venture's risk profile).

«The majority of investments in this asset class will go to zero — that's the nature of a high - risk, high - return asset class — and the goal is to build a diversified portfolio where the handful of winners do well enough to provide outstanding returns across the whole portfolio.»

The goal of social impact investing is to enhance risk - adjusted returns, while generating a positive social and environmental impact.

Personally, I've never understood people who got into this business for the excitement - get your kicks from theme parks or sports; the goal of investing should be to make guaranteed rates of return substantially in excess of your personal hurdle rate.

If your portfolio does not own these star performers, you may miss out on some or all of the returns that are necessary to fund your life goals.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

«Is it our goal to increase return to our shareholders and do we have an excess amount of capital?

With debt financing, the fixed repayment schedule and the high cost of loan repayment can make it difficult for a business to expand while with equity financing, money is invested in the business in exchange for equity - there is no fixed repayment schedule and investors generally have a long term goal of return on investment.

Ultimately, the goal for any investor is to maximize return at a desired level of risk.

Rollovers would be administratively expensive and would defeat the goal of connecting workers» long term savings to longer - term assets — a necessary condition for guaranteeing secure and adequate returns.

A four - member Commonwealth ministerial team meeting in Pakistan to assess the political situation has said that it wants a time - frame for the return of democracy to the country, and is offering the military government up to two years to achieve that goal.

With my personal investment return goal of 3X the risk - free rate of return (10 - year bond yield), anything above 6 % looks attractive, depending on risk.

Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.

After all, Apple is not the first company to make decisions with the goal of anticipating activists, and Icahn was not the first activist to push Apple to return capital to shareholders.

The goal of their study, which was originally written in August 2016 but published on SSRN in March 2018, was to explore the prominent drivers of risk and return in emerging markets.

My main goal is to produce a 6 - 9 % return on my money with the lowest amount of risk.

But once you choose to target a level of risk based on your goals, time horizon, and tolerance for volatility, diversification may provide the potential to improve returns for that level of risk.

Our goal is to produce superior returns defined by the unique needs of each client.

Her goal was nothing less than to return her company to the level of the Big Four.

Some consider social impact investing a sort of pseudophilanthropy because the returns aren't always the main goal.

corporate goals and objectives for CEO compensation including, for long - term compensation, the Company's performance and relative stockholder return, the value of similar awards to CEOs at comparable companies and past CEO awards; and

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The goal of yield maintenance is to allow the conduit lender to reinvest the money returned from the borrower, plus a penalty fee, into bonds or other investments and receive the same cash flow as if the loan hadn't been paid off early.

The primary goal of diversification isn't to maximize returns.

The overall goal of this process is to deliver relatively stable risk - adjusted returns through various economic and investing cycles.

These qualities drive consistent returns and gains from year to year, which is the goal of any value investor.

Diversification is the benchmark of any solid investment portfolio, and the number one goal is minimizing risk without curtailing returns.

The CNGC's independent consultant attends and participates in CNGC meetings at which executive compensation matters are considered, and performs analyses for the CNGC at the CNGC's request, including benchmarking, realizable pay analyses, analyses of the correlation between performance measures and shareholder return, and assessments of the difficulty of attaining performance goals.

From record - breaking stock market returns to falling unemployment, the U.S. has no shortage of positive economic indicators, and the majority of investors say they feel confident about achieving both their short - and long - term goals, according to the latest «Morgan Stanley Investor Pulse Poll,» which surveyed more than 1,200 investors age 25 to 75 with over $ 100,000 in assets.

The Labor Department's prior guidance had emphasized that «plan fiduciaries may not increase expenses, sacrifice investment returns, or reduce the security of plan benefits in order to promote collateral goals.»

High returns are understandably your goal, and having a competent trading robot will allow you to make the most of your investments.

Still, the firm had a 5 percent return on equity, unchanged from a year earlier and short of Gorman's 10 percent goal.

Rather than retaining earnings and building capital in accordance with the goal of rehabilitation (as required in a conservatorship pursuant to HERA, and as was demanded of every other financial institution after the crisis), the Third Amendment ensured that the GSEs could never rebuild capital nor — no matter how much money they returned to the Treasury — be allowed to ever repay the government.