Sentences with phrase «infrastructure assets as»

We are also working with leading British pension funds, so they can invest in solid infrastructure assets as happens elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

The board has been dealing with the volatility of publicly traded stocks and low returns from government bonds by diversifying into other forms of assets, including equity in private companies and investments in infrastructure such as highways and real estate.

Not only will Sokoni provide a marketplace for buyers and sellers, it will enhance the speed and efficiency of asset sales and capital raises by using technology to facilitate the work of those looking to finance African infrastructure assets, as well as potential donors and global capital providers interested in investing in Africa.

In an interview to discuss annual results, CEO João Miranda said that in addition to more investments in its energy unit, the group is considering new assets in infrastructure such as roadways and urban mobility.

They could explain their tax incentive spending as investments in shared regional assets — schools, community colleges, universities, regional infrastructure, and housing — that will benefit Amazon but also workers, communities, and other firms.

Synergy, which operates an IT infrastructure and data back - up service, held mining interests from its days as Nexus Minerals, which also acquired technology assets.

The financial sector constitutes the infrastructure of commerce; financial intermediation is also the mechanism that facilitates risk - sharing and risk mitigation, as well as regional and intertemporal exchange of financial assets and obligations.

Infrastructure assets have traditionally been characterized as long - lived, with high development costs (barriers to entry) and the potential for steady income streams, often linked to inflation.

Nontraditional asset classes such as infrastructure or real estate may be worth considering.

The potential for China to acquire cutting - edge European technology or convert critical infrastructure investments into strategic assets — including the potential for dual - use of assets such as ports — might also pose long - term challenges to U.S. interests, especially as U.S. - China competition intensifies.

New Energy Capital Partners, LLC («NEC»), a leading alternative asset management firm focused on debt and equity investments in small - and mid-sized clean energy infrastructure projects and companies, today announced its appointment as sub-advisor to North Sky Capital's Alliance Fund... Continue reading →

The first type are vehicles that invest in non-traditional assets, such as infrastructure, real estate and private equity.

: We view secondaries as a differentiated access point to the same high - quality infrastructure assets other investors may be investing in directly.

Companies can use Supernodes in many flexible ways, such as creating their own securities - related infrastructures for situations like raising capital or safely managing the assets of clients.

Focused on clean energy infrastructure assets in North America, including solar, wind, energy efficiency, storage, and water, the Fund seeks to encompass a broad array of investment structures, such as senior debt, subordinated debt, and preferred equity.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) will convene a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday during which MillerCoors and experts critical of banks» involvement in physical commodities activities and infrastructure assets such as storage facilities and pipelines are likely to heavily criticize banks like Goldman and JPMorgan, which both own large warehouses that store aluminum and trade derivatives contracts reflecting commodity prices.

«It is impossible to know the extent to which crypto assets may transform the financial infrastructure and whether most new crypto assets are likely to disappear as in past episodes of technological innovation (as many tech companies did during the boom of the late 1990s, for example),» wrote the IMF.

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

It wouldn't surprise me if some other sub asset classes (eg infrastructure funds) do just as well for this purpose.

After all, the proverbial «boxes» have been ticked; permitting, sufficient infrastructure, customer base, real producing assets (as opposed to highly speculative land with evidence of graphite), revenue, and operating cash flow.

As of January 31, 2018, Vinci represented 1.11 % of total net assets of Franklin Global Listed Infrastructure Fund.

As of January 31, 2018, American Water Works represented 1.39 % of total net assets of Franklin Global Listed Infrastructure Fund.

As of January 31, 2018, Transurban Group represented 6.35 % of total net assets of Franklin Global Listed Infrastructure Fund.

This is likely just the beginning of what promises to be a burgeoning asset class, as governments and other entities will need to invest an estimated $ 90 trillion in infrastructure over the next 15 years to achieve goals outlined by the Global Commission on Economy and Climate.

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The way it works is we can send real world items such as money or any kind of value or asset digitally from our phones and computers over a peer to peer network with no need for a financial infrastructure so no fees and no controlling powers saying what we can and can't be done with the currency we earn.

Brisbane - based agriculture, commercial property and infrastructure manager AAM Investment Group will act as fund and asset manager.

Non-financial assets are defined as expenditures on any construction - related work, from road repairs and maintenance jobs, to local parks and buildings, to social infrastructure spending such as schools, kindergartens or hospitals.

Where an SWF is primarily a fund manager investing liquid financial assets of the state (e.g. Singapore's GIC), an NWF is akin to an investment company in charge of active corporate governance for the commercial, operational assets of the state such as state - owned enterprises, real estate, forests, infrastructure as a portfolio (e.g. Singapore's Temasek).

He said Chiavacci Farley's lack of political experience was an asset and said her background as a Stanford - trained engineer would help her to bring infrastructure money back to New York.

It holds a monopoly over Britain's rail infrastructure, a major national asset, and as such is rigorously monitored to ensure accountability to the public interest.

As part of this effort, participants will be «integrated into the larger regional effort to grow» unmanned aerial systems in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley and will have access to «world - leading» infrastructure and testing assets when they come online.

A wholesale transfer of capital from the wealthy to the people through nationalisation of infrastructure assets is unlikely, but there are other areas at the margins where Ed's team are actively considering significant market intervention in the interests of redistribution (or «solving the cost of living crisis», as Labour's tired mantra has it).

No other greenfield site in the world boasts the ideal site characteristics, infrastructure, workforce, transportation assets, and lifestyle as the Marcy Nanocenter.

The label «poor» arises from a development perspective that looks only at financial, infrastructure, technology and other tangible assets as the measures of wealth.

Concerns Head teachers are concerned at the poor state of the schools estate as a result of years of under - investment in the maintenance and refurbishment of school buildings and infrastructure assets.

The key to a successful program is navigating tight economic conditions for the initial purchase and then maintaining your assets and infrastructure, refreshing them as the technology changes.

«In fact, there may be diseconomies of scale for larger public pension plans because of the complexity of implementing their investment strategies, which include contracting out for external experts — a practice that has become increasingly popular, with plans investing more in non-traditional assets such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity,» said the report.

Nontraditional asset classes such as infrastructure or real estate may be worth considering.

Infrastructure has also become crowded, but offers good inflation protection, as well as stable yields both of which makes it an attractive asset class for endowment funds.

Brookfield Asset Management uses its enormous access to low - cost capital and its knowledge of global infrastructure, utilities, and property markets — things with long - term contracts and highly predictable cash flows — to help set up large deals for its MLPs, which help them to grow their distributable cash flow, or DCF, and payouts, which results in higher distributions back to Brookfield Asset Management, with up to 25 % of marginal DCF coming back as well.

The Fund will invest primarily in equity securities, such as common stock of companies focused on physical asset development, including roads, bridges, and infrastructure (RBI).

The Fund will invest primarily in equity securities, such as common stock of companies focused on physical asset development, including roads, bridges, and infrastructure.

As far as debt goes, these entities typically have higher debt because they are very asset heavy and there is a lot of infrastructure and build - outs involveAs far as debt goes, these entities typically have higher debt because they are very asset heavy and there is a lot of infrastructure and build - outs involveas debt goes, these entities typically have higher debt because they are very asset heavy and there is a lot of infrastructure and build - outs involved.

The Global Asset Management segment offers investment capabilities and styles across all major traditional and alternative asset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, and private equity that can also be combined into multi-asset strateAsset Management segment offers investment capabilities and styles across all major traditional and alternative asset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, and private equity that can also be combined into multi-asset strateasset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, and private equity that can also be combined into multi-asset strateasset strategies.

Hedge - fund strategies and non-traditional asset classes such as private equity and infrastructure are repeatedly touted for their significant diversification benefits and returns that are uncorrelated to stocks and -LSB-...]

Infrastructure assets are less «liquid» than some other investments, which means they can not be as easily sold and converted to cash.