Sentences with phrase «in a few positions of»

Want - to - be investors can possibly do better than the fund by investing only in a few positions of the fund's holdings.

Not exact matches

So, the only way this CPP expansion can be held back now is if some of signing provinces decide to reverse their position in the next few weeks before indicating final support to the federal government.

The U.K. government published a few position papers, but according to Guy Verhofstadt, «most of them were in fact papers concerning the future relationship between U.K. and the European Union»

You scan through a few of the resumes, and very few people are qualified for the position, even though you clearly spelled out the job qualifications in the job posting.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

He has been adding to his position in companies such as Pool Corp., the country's largest supplier of residential pool supplies, in large part because it has few competitors that will be able to undercut it on prices, he said.

After spending just a few months working in his first full - time position out of college, Sam realized that he didn't want a safe nine - to - five job with a 401 (k), good health insurance, and a few annual days of PTO.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

In fact, 45 % of respondents reported «few or no qualified applications» for the positions they were trying to fill.

And a few of us were put in positions where we felt physically unsafe.»

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easieIn all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easiein a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easiein the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

A lack of female leadership in some fields leads to fewer female mentors and fewer companies where women have a position at the upper echelons of the organization, which it turn results in fewer women entering that industry and becoming leaders themselves.

Now, just a few years later, the company finds itself in the strange position of having to justify that accomplishment — and to rationalize it in order to get people to spend the extra money on its new console.

«Each of the market reversals of the past few weeks has in common that they represented widely held positions — long equities, overweight small caps, overweight tech, underweight emerging markets, and short duration,» says Loeys.

Adding thousands of new greeter positions could cost Wal - Mart a few hundred million dollars each year, but even a 10 % drop in theft would probably offset those additional costs.

Serving groups of customers whose backgrounds are different from yours isn't about swapping out photos or putting a few token people in key positions in your company.

Over the past few years, this tech stalwart has positioned itself as a leader in one of its sector's up - and - coming areas: information technology services.

Nowadays, it seems, a new business is apt to be a Compaq or MIPS kind of thing, hitting the ground fully capitalized, fully researched and developed, fully located, fully staffed, and fully positioned to rake in a few hundred million dollars within the first three years.

If we push people to come back too soon, or to be online and available during the first few months of their child's life, we put them in an untenable position.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

I wanted to share with each of you directly what I have told the senior leadership in the past few days, which is that I expect to step down from my position here before the end of the month.

Over the past few years, Facebook has been gaining on YouTube, the leader in the digital video space, in terms of winning over advertisers, and Watch should help solidify its position, said Paul Verna, a senior analyst with eMarketer.

By bunching large buy orders in the last few minutes of trade, it also leaves traders who had shorted stocks earlier with no choice but to buy them back and cover their positions.

I have quite a few positions in Bank Of America Stock (BAC) which were placed throughout the correction.

Numerous times in the past, a cluster of distribution days after an extended rally, combined with the suddenly poor performance of individual leadership stocks, has been enough to prompt us to exit long positions within just a few percent of a market top (check out this actual such example from mid-2012).

Although a number of factors led to this decision, a few worth noting are a modest level of debt (22 % of the capital structure, as shown in the Capital Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistical Array).

«You have to reduce the power of the CEO, and one of the very few ways to do that is to separate the chairman - of - the - board position from the CEO position,» Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills said in Corporate Board Member magazine (March / April 2003).

Over the past several years we have seen a few amazing moves in futures positioning in a number of commodities, such as e.g. in crude oil, where the by far largest speculative long positions in history have been amassed.

Over the past few days, there have been any number of politicians, pundits and pollsters who have scolded the Conservative government for the position it has taken in Copenhagen.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

We will see in a few months which of the starved bear or that lousy Trump bull can rise to the dominant position.

The executives» senior positions in Facebook made them some of the few individuals who could potentially turn around the social networking site's views toward user data.

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

Choosing between a diverse portfolio filled with many different stocks or having big positions in a few securities comes with a number of trade - offs.

The executives» senior positions in Facebook made them some of the few people who could potentially turn around the social networking site's views toward user data.

In the event of a reasonable market pullback (say, a few percent), and assuming market internals were still intact at that point, I would be inclined to increase our call option position toward about 2 % of assets, which would provide good exposure to any market advance that might begin from that lower base.

I don't know about Combs, but Hempton is wrong on Weschler I think, who is known for owning very concentrated positions in very few stocks and holding them for years (he compounded money at around 25 % annually for 12 years in his fund before closing it to go work for Buffett, and the majority of his returns came from just a few positions that he held the entire life of the fund).

The Canadian, who took above the central lender in 2013, ran the Ottawa marathon in 2011, clocking up a time of a few hours and forty eight minutes that positioned him one, 022 nd out of 2,733 runners.

In that same report I also said, «We currently plan that at most times the Oakmark Select Fund will own 20 or fewer stocks, with about half of its assets in its five largest positions.&raquIn that same report I also said, «We currently plan that at most times the Oakmark Select Fund will own 20 or fewer stocks, with about half of its assets in its five largest positions.&raquin its five largest positions.»

As subscribers to our stock picking newsletter for swing traders will note in the «open positions» section of today's report, we plan to sell and take profits on most of our winning positions on today's open, just to lock in some of the solid gains we've been riding over the past few weeks.

Since 2008, there have been plenty of calls to forcibly dismantle the «Too Big To Fail» (TBTF) Banks, but few of those calls have come from those in positions of real power.

Warren Buffett has spent the last few decades looking to buy either entire businesses, or major positions in large cap stocks of great businesses.

«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to generate profit and fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.

Fifty - one percent of the owners hired or tried to hire in the last three months and 44 percent (86 percent of those trying to hire or hiring) reported few or no qualified applicants for open positions.

More impressive, Icahn claims his portfolio has largely been hedged in the last few years — his stock holdings offset by large short positions of the S&P 500 Index.

However, the Australian dollar remains one of the few currencies in which market participants continue to have long speculative positions relative to the US dollar (Graph 24); in the case of the Japanese yen, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc, speculative positions against the US dollar are short.

Traders often make mistakes out of fear of a potential loss or when because of greed outstay in the position for a few dollars on top.

The Bank also made substantial use of foreign exchange swaps during the past few months to manage domestic liquidity, though in net terms the swap position (at $ 30.1 billion) has not changed much since the start of the financial year.

Amir Adnani, CEO, President and a director of Uranium Energy Corp, explains why his company is in a great position to be relevant as one of the few U.S. producers.

We locked in gains in a few of our holdings, and deferred boosting our overall position back toward 20 % just yet.