Later work by Cox, Wexler, Rusbult, and Gaines (1997) added moral and social prescriptive support to this model and found the validity of social prescriptive support along with satisfaction, quality of alternatives and
investment size in predicting commitment level.
Therefore, they generally set a minimum
investment size in the tens oreven hundreds of millions, and often don't want to or can not be morethan a certain percentage of a given fund (to avoid taking a controllinginterest).
Not exact matches
In big box retail, Alibaba recently announced a $ 2.9 billion investment in China's second - largest hypermarket, Sun Art Retail; in the medium - sized sector, Alibaba has invested in the Sanjiang supermarket chain; and in small retail, Alibaba is aligning with Lianhua's Quik convenience store
In big box retail, Alibaba recently announced a $ 2.9 billion
investment in China's second - largest hypermarket, Sun Art Retail; in the medium - sized sector, Alibaba has invested in the Sanjiang supermarket chain; and in small retail, Alibaba is aligning with Lianhua's Quik convenience store
in China's second - largest hypermarket, Sun Art Retail;
in the medium - sized sector, Alibaba has invested in the Sanjiang supermarket chain; and in small retail, Alibaba is aligning with Lianhua's Quik convenience store
in the medium -
sized sector, Alibaba has invested
in the Sanjiang supermarket chain; and in small retail, Alibaba is aligning with Lianhua's Quik convenience store
in the Sanjiang supermarket chain; and
in small retail, Alibaba is aligning with Lianhua's Quik convenience store
in small retail, Alibaba is aligning with Lianhua's Quik convenience stores.
The firm's mortgage
investment corporation has about 2,400 such loans
in its portfolio, with an average
size of $ 85,000, and says it maintained a $ 4.3 - million loan loss provision on a $ 214 - million portfolio last year.
An analysis of a company's debts, assets, and
investments can provide a solid picture of its credit worthiness, particularly when the data are compared to a composite of companies of similar
size in similar industries.
The
investment firm has set a $ 250 million minimum check
size required for limited partners to participate
in its global growth fund.
Meanwhile Waugh is setting up a private
investment company with a focus on making direct
investments in small and medium -
sized companies.
Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of
investment advisory Hightower San Diego, says the tepid GDP growth
in the first half of the year has already dampened IT spending by companies of all
sizes.
For those who don't want to negotiate bridge traffic, Port Moody's continued
investment in development — and the completion of its Skytrain stop — has turned this area into a high - value neighbourhood that offers a balance between lifestyle, commuter distance, and house
size.
But
investment in private technology companies of all
sizes is surging.
Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (
in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital
investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking
size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.
The number of
investments by Canadian VCs, and their
size, has sagged dramatically
in the past decade and a half.
The sharks are circling Woolworths, but the
size of the business would require suitors to make a significant
investment —
in cash and time.
Another reduction, though the relatively small
size of Berkshire's holdings makes the sales discernible only
in the 13F filings, is that Berkshire cut its
investment in Moody's (MCO) from about 32 million shares at the end of 2009 to 28.4 million a year later.
In October 2015, the
investment bank reported that, for the first time, the
size of China's middle class had exceeded that of America's middle class, 109 million to 92 million.
Virtual Reality has always been overhyped, but much of that was due to its relatively small market
size, and therefore a lack of big, bankable entertainment brands willing to make the
investment in original content.
Much like NBCUniversal's $ 200 - million
investment in Vox Media, and a similarly -
sized investment in BuzzFeed, the DreamWorks acquisition provides the company with content it can not only shove down the pipe that it owns into people's homes, but can distribute
in other ways as well, especially online and through streaming services.
To highlight Global Entrepreneurship Week, we took a look at how international entrepreneurs are starting to reel
in Silicon - Valley -
sized investments.
Wiseman cautioned that the CPPIB — despite its large
size in Canadian terms — competes against much bigger investors
in the global market such as private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and other public pension plans that are also on the hunt for similar types of
investments.
There was no indication of the
size and scope of the tariffs, which U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Wednesday would target China's high - technology sector and could also include restrictions on Chinese
investments in the United States.
To help young people get the first, critical work experience they need, our Government will focus
investment to support internships
in high - demand fields and
in small and medium -
sized businesses.
Costanoa is aming to make «right -
sized»
investments — the term that refers to seed and Series A
investments in the $ 500,000 - to - $ 3 - million range.
What characterizes them is the number of companies they invest
in, as well as the
size of their
investments (less than $ 250,000), and the seed or startup stage where they specialize.
Angels of any
size are usually not as capable or interested
in multiple rounds of
investment, leaving good startups that are not superstars stranded without funding after an initial round or two.
Then he recommends that the customers» managers analyze products «every way imaginable, from the
size of financial
investments in them to their turnover cycles,» to look for ways to reduce inventory.
Applying the ratio of entities that meet the SBA
size standards to the number of affected entities, based on the methodology described at greater length
in the RIA of the Fiduciary Rule, the Department estimates that the number of small entities affected by this final rule is 2,438 BDs, 16,521 Registered
Investment Advisors, 496 insurers, and 3,358 other ERISA service providers.
Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors,
in addition to those associated with their relatively small
size, lesser liquidity and lack of established legal, political, business, and social frameworks to support securities markets.
We utilize our balance sheet to make direct
investments in small - to medium -
sized operating companies that demonstrate compelling risk / return characteristics.
These funds handily outperformed similar -
sized funds
in the comparative universe (4.5 %), impact
investment funds over $ 100 million (6.2 %), and funds over $ 100 million
in the comparative universe (8.3 %).
For example, if we weight expected returns, it is nearly impossible to give any weight at all to a credit strained environment and still justify a positive
investment position, because of the
size of the losses that can emerge
in credit - strained conditions.
We make significant
investments in acquiring new customers and believe that we will be able to achieve a positive return on these
investments by retaining customers and expanding the
size of our deployments within our customer base over time...
EF:
In the
investment game, our biggest currency is not our check
size, it's our reputation.
Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors,
in addition to those associated with these markets» smaller
size, lesser liquidity and lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets.
Industry Ventures» hybrid fund - of - funds (known as Partnership Holdings) focuses on small, early - stage venture capital funds, less than $ 250 million
in size, as well as direct venture
investments.
By comparison, the
Investment Company Institute (ICI) reports that plans of all
sizes pay an average of 1.29 %
in fees, and that those fees decline as assets rise.
Investments in mid / small -
sized companies may involve greater risks than
in those of larger, better known companies.
Investments in small -
sized companies may involve greater risks than
in those of larger, better known companies.
He said decisions about the
size of stock buybacks and
investment in R&D, which totaled $ 17 billion during his tenure, were not related.
Will certain verification standards have the effect of pushing up a typical, minimum angel
investment size, even as the proliferation of accredited crowdfunding platforms is taking angel investing
in the opposite direction, i.e., smaller
investments per investor per deal, and the spreading of an individual angel's
investment capital over a broader portfolio?
2016 proved to be another standout year for
investments in Indiana technology companies with a total of 23 deals at a combined fundraise amount of $ 51.51 million, equating to an average deal
size of $ 2.2 million.
We've internally refer to these as our «double down» bets, and the
size of the second round of
investments which we are referring to as cannonballs is analogous to the difference between a series B round vs. series A or seed round
in the tech
investment world.
Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors,
in addition to those associated with their relatively small
size and lesser liquidity.
No such thing as one
size fits all,» says Kirzner, also an advisor to Canadian robo - advisor firm Wealthsimple, which invests clients» money
in a range of ETFs using the same
investment philosophy.
Accordingly, the Strategic Growth Fund is now back to a fully - hedged
investment stance - meaning that the Fund continues to be fully invested
in a broadly diversified group of stocks that appear to have some combination of favorable valuation and favorable market action, while at the same time, the Fund carries an offsetting short position of equal
size in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices (using option combinations that mimic short futures contracts) intended to mute the impact of broad market fluctuations on the Fund.
We are the affordable outsourced IT department to help small and medium
sized business get the most out of their
investment in technology.
He served as Director of Markets at the London Stock Exchange PLC (LSE) and Head of its Alternative
Investment Market (AIM), where he led the exchange's transformational growth strategy focused on driving market efficiency and resulting
in a fivefold increase
in market
size.
Play a key role
in contributing to our deal evaluation process including competitive analysis, financial analysis, pro forma modeling, capitalization table modeling, market
sizing and various other
investment related items pertaining to our Ag fund.
«Given the strong USD rally following the 2005 Homeland
Investment Act, we may see something similar as markets start appreciating the potential
size of repatriation flows, both
in the short term from the stock and the long term from the flow.»
SBG has concluded a non-binding memorandum of understanding («MOU») on October 12, 2016 with the Public
Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia («PIF»), under which PIF will consider investing in the Fund and becoming the lead investment partner, with the potential investment size of up to USD 45 billion over the next f
Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia («PIF»), under which PIF will consider investing
in the Fund and becoming the lead
investment partner, with the potential investment size of up to USD 45 billion over the next f
investment partner, with the potential
investment size of up to USD 45 billion over the next f
investment size of up to USD 45 billion over the next five years.
They note, for example, that the
size of large trades of US
investment grade corporate bonds (so - called «block trades») has continuously declined
in recent years.6 Furthermore,
in most corporate bond markets, trading appears to be highly concentrated
in just a few liquid issues, and concentration appears to be increasing
in some market segments.