Sentences with phrase «investment from large companies»

The CD Howe Institute has argued the deduction carries a cost to the economy by shifting investment from large companies to small ones, which are less productive.

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The company and its eponymous product, created by serial entrepreneur and technology expert David Gurle, is scarcely out of startup mode, but already it's making waves as a potentially disrupting new force on Wall Street, thanks in large part to support from some of the world's largest investment banks.

A large chunk of Berkshire's earnings, $ 4.4 billion, in the third quarter came from a non-cash gain on Berkshire's investment in Kraft Heinz Co., which was generated when Mr. Buffett helped to orchestrate the tie up of the two companies.

The $ 560 - million investment — the largest in the Canadian food industry — is the third and final phase of a sweeping $ 1.3 - billion restructuring strategy the company launched in 2006, which has since reached every corner of operations, from hog rendering to baked goods and now, finally, prepared meats.

The latest pharma innovation report from Deloitte holds some pretty grim news for pharma: returns on R&D investments by large cap companies slid to a mere 3.7 % in 2016, down from the 10.1 % returns seen in 2010 (although the cost of bringing a drug to market is beginning to stabilize).

Other large January deals include Dominion Energy Inc.'s $ 7.71 billion bid for Scana Corp. and the $ 7.34 billion overture from Hunt Companies Inc. for Five Oaks Investment Corp..

Larger, more established companies will continue to utilize Regulation A + to raise $ 5 - $ 50 million through small investments from lots of people, but today the door opens for earlier - stage startups and small businesses.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

People familiar with the development told VCCircle that the objective behind the exercise is to help the new e-commerce company raise larger investment from its existing investor Alibaba and also, Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp, which owns more than 32 % stake in Alibaba.

Although this aspect of the analysis was largely absent from the immediate news coverage, the RECAI also tracked growing interest in renewable energy on the part of large fossil companies, with Eni, BP, Statoil, Total, and Shell all scoring notable investments.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

When the Company seeks cash investments from outside investors, like you, the new investors typically pay a much larger sum for their shares than the founders or earlier investors, which means that the cash value of your stake is immediately diluted because each share of the same type is worth the same amount, and you paid more for your shares (or the notes convertible into shares) than earlier investors did for theirs.

Co-working company WeWork gets a $ 4.4 B investment from SoftBank Japanese conglomerate SoftBank's investment in WeWork is larger than previously reported.

Some say a technological shift at companies like HP and IBM away from traditional manufacturing, which requires large investments in buildings and equipment, and toward data - based products is also changing the calculation of how much investment is needed in innovation.

His investing strategies have helped him grow investments from family and friends in Omaha into the company with the seventh largest revenue in the United States.

When it comes to Freeport, however, investors need to remember that the company has made good progress recovering from a notable investment mistake, but that it still has to deal with material uncertainty surrounding one of its largest mines.

Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital, a California - based technology firm, became Tronc's second - largest shareholder in June 2016 and that investment helped Tronc fend off a hostile takeover bid from Gannett, whose last offer was $ 864 million for the company.

Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital, a Culver City technology firm, became Tronc's second - largest shareholder in June 2016, and that investment helped Tronc fend off a hostile takeover bid from Gannett, whose last offer was $ 864 million for the company.

Tribune Publishing also announced it received a $ 70.5 million investment from Nant Capital in a deal that makes the California - based technology investment firm the company's second - largest shareholder, edging past the 4.695 million shares owned by Oaktree Capital Management, which has pushed Tribune Publishing to negotiate a sale to Gannett.

The first paper, authored by economists at the Investment Company Institute and the IRS, used data from a large sample of taxpayers to examine what happened to individuals» inflation - adjusted disposable income up to three years after they claim Social Security retirement benefits.

India's largest online marketplace Flipkart's valuation woes seem to be far from over as two American mutual funds, Fidelity Rutland Square Trust II and Valic Co. have marked down the value of their investment in the company for the second time this year.

Instead, diversify your investments to include stocks from large, midsize and small companies.

This was the largest study of angel investment returns ever conducted, analyzing results from 86 organized angel investor groups throughout the United States, involving 539 individual angel group investors who have experienced more than 1,130 exits in which investment - receiving companies were acquired, went public, or were closed.

Cerberus, the investment firm that owned the largest stake in the company, told Bloomberg that it decided to sell the company «amid pressure from investors revolted by the carnage» in Sandy Hook.

Open Avenue is staking the claim as the first Canadian real estate crowdsourcing company, though the notion of raising large sums through small investments from many people — crowdfunding — has been popular in the U.S. for a few years.

The Fund will draw from a strong portfolio of MaRS client companies that target the large and growing global cleantech market, and will co-invest with angels and other institutional funds, including the Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), Ontario's seed stage investInvestment Accelerator Fund (IAF), Ontario's seed stage investmentinvestment fund.

Viewing these companies as allies rather than merely as customers from whom to make as large a profit as quickly as possible, German bank officials sat on their boards, and helped expand their business by extending loans to foreign governments on condition that their clients be named the chief suppliers in major public investments.

After giving the company credit for the expected ramp - up in production from large current investments, the company is trading at less than 9 times earnings — too low considering that approximately a quarter of those earnings come from the very high - return trading segment and the rest come from long - lived and well - run mining assets.

Abetz, being interviewed on ABC television on Sunday, was defending cabinet's decision to reject SPC Ardmona's $ 25m request, which was to be supplemented by $ 25m from the Victorian government and a larger investment by parent company Coca - Cola Amatil.

New York's chairman of energy and finance, Richard Kauffman, will exclude himself from meetings with the world's largest offshore wind - energy developer about a wind farm off Long Island because of an investment he has in a Goldman Sachs subsidiary that owns a large stake in the company.

Already in 2016, the American United Methodist Church declared the five largest Israeli banks off - limits for investment, French telecom giant Orange terminated its Israeli contracts, and Irish multinational CRH divested its share from the Israeli company supplying concrete for the Apartheid Wall.

The California - based company received $ 15 million from Google's philanthropic arm (the tech giant's largest clean - energy investment) and just secured a $ 3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Plus countries like Iraq and Mexico have not developed their full potential, partly due to lack of investment and infrastructure from larger oil companies and international banks, Doman suggests.

We prepare agencies like NOAA, NASA and the Department of Defense, along with large insurance, investment and energy companies to anticipate, manage, react to and profit from weather and climate related risk.

Paktor secured the undisclosed funding from MNC Group as part of a larger investment round the company is currently closing.

This is the largest investment in the US since the new Company was formed in June 2009 and was aided by the approval of a tax abatement from the city of Kokomo.

The large sedan has seen huge investment from parent company Toyota in terms of research and development, all with the goal of producing the best luxury vehicle on the market.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Most large investment firms and mutual fund companies offer this type of service, at a total cost that might range from, say, 0.75 % to 1 % a year (or more) of assets under management.

Pursuing the growth potential of overseas marketsEstablished companies: The fund invests in established large and midsize companies mainly in developed markets to benefit from opportunities unfolding outside the United States.A flexible strategy: Pursuing Putnam's blend strategy, the fund can own growth - or value - style stocks to participate when either style leads international markets.Building competitive portfolios: The portfolio manager uses fundamental research as the cornerstone of the investment process.

Securities investments are offered for corporations ranging from large capitalization companies to extremely high risk penny stock ventures.

Th world's largest beverage company really needs no introduction from me, but after a full quantitative and qualitative analysis I felt very comfortable adding to my investment with Coke.

A mutual fund is an investment company that takes money from many investors and pools it together in one large pot.

Both of us aren't really great savers (wife had CC debt and larger student loans when we met) and neither of us can really stick well to a budget so how we make it work is I invest 22 % of my base salary into investments (plus the 12 % I get from my company) for 34 %.

We feel most investors should hold the largest part of their investment portfolios in securities from blue chip companies.

Benefiting from undervalued international companies experiencing positive change International companies: The fund invests in international large and midsize companies to benefit from business opportunities outside the United States.A value strategy: The fund focuses on companies whose stocks are priced below their long - term potential, and where there may be a catalyst for positive change.Building competitive portfolios: The portfolio manager uses fundamental research as the cornerstone of the investment process.

Seeking to harness the growth potential of large U.S. companiesA large - company focus: The fund invests in large U.S. companies, targeting those with a competitive edge in markets around the world and the potential to produce strong profits.A rigorous process: The fund's manager uses rigorous fundamental investment research to find opportunities and manage risk.A focus on quality: The manager seeks companies with solid management, sound financials, and products or services that are benefiting from growing demand.

A mutual fund, sometimes referred to as an open - end investment company, pools money together from a large number of investors and uses that money to buy stocks, bonds and other securities.

Semi-annually, on the Constituent Reset Date, the Investment Manager will select from the largest and most liquid U.S. companies listed on the NYSE or the NASDAQ and will invest Horizons HEA in each issuer equally.