Sentences with phrase «issues about investor»

She said that their stretched valuations and extreme volatility raise issues about investor and consumer protection, while it is not yet obvious that they pose a serious threat to financial stability.

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«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a failure.

It's an issue experts on both sides of the border — including at the Bank of Canada — have been warning investors about for a few months now: There's an alarming lack of liquidity in the credit market.

«The flipside is that when investors give money, they don't necessarily want to give honest feedback to the founder about issues or problems within the company,» said Rahn.

Big investors including State Street and BlackRock, which together hold about 9 percent of Exxon shares, recently have made clear they are now giving more attention to climate issues.

In honor of Equal Pay Day 2018, Fortune sat down with the activist investor to talk about how — and why — she engages with companies on the issue of pay equity.

It's fair to say the broader solar sector is in turmoil too — and investors have learned the hard way about the industry's issues.

The shorts talk about another issue: The Treasury Department is investigating whether SolarCity and other solar companies inflated the value of their installations to drive more tax credits to their investors.

Though some of these investment schemes appear legitimate, a number have ended badly for investors, enough that the B.C. Securities Commission in May issued an investor alert about wealth enhancement seminars.

The obvious issue is, Wouldn't the potential return on investment matter more to an investor than conscientiousness about social causes?

But some investors have been doing more than talk on TV about the issue.

Investors are set to snap up the bonds with an interest rate of less than 3.4 %, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, or about half the rate Sprint would have had to pay if it issued the bonds without any backing.

More often, it's simply an innocent lack of disclosure of current relationship and operational issues which could raise investor qualms about the health of the business, despite a huge opportunity and a great product.

Now, we shouldn't ignore the many issues that investors should be worried about.

In the June 13 issue of Canadian Business, I wrote about how investors can play defense with their equity allocation.

In July, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned investors about «improper» ICO schemes and issued rules on how startups can decide whether or not they are selling securities or utility tokens.

So, now it's more about how Chinese investors feel about the debt issue.

You can gauge the interest in responsible investing simply from the increase in shareholder proposals being filed about ESG issues and the exponential growth in the number of questions being asked by institutional investors, researchers and clients - and as a CEO, I have to make trade offs that may not be in the best short term profit interest of the Bank but are viewed in our best long term interest.

An IPO, in case you haven't learned about the specifics, yet, occurs when a formerly private business decides to take on outside investors, either by having the founders sell some of their shares or by issuing new shares to raise money for expansion, while, at the same time, listing those shares on a stock exchange or an over-the-counter market.

In recent months, the FCA has issued a warning about token offerings (ICOs), cautioned investors about cryptocurrency contracts for differences, and issued a report that details the denial of banking services to firms exploring distributed ledger technology.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R - Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement that he was «disappointed» that DOL issued its fiduciary rule, «despite widespread concern about the rule's complexity and the harm it may do to low - and middle - income investors.»

Discovering Shale Gas: An Investor's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale Plays explores in detail the environmental and social impacts of shale gas development in the United States, identifying key questions for investors and also broader issues about shale gas development's implications for extending the era of fossil fuel dominance.

It doesn't matter if you are a fixed income investor considering purchasing bonds issued by a company, an equity investor considering buying stock in a firm, a landlord contemplating leasing a property to an enterprise, a bank officer making a recommendation on a potential loan, or a vendor thinking about extending credit to a new customer, knowing how to calculate it in a few seconds can give you a powerful insight into the health of company.

(b) On or about April 30, 2013, Shkreli caused Retrophin to enter into a Settlement Agreement with Spencer Spielberg, an investor in MSMB Healthcare, that required Retrophin to pay Spielberg $ 25,000 and issue him 6,000 Retrophin shares (the «Spielberg Settlement Agreement»);

(d) On or about June 10, 2013, Shkreli caused Retrophin to enter into a Settlement Agreement with Michael Lavelle, an investor in MSMB Healthcare, which required Retrophin to pay Lavelle $ 1,355,000 and issue him 5,000 Retrophin shares (the «Lavelle Settlement Agreement»).

Between April 2013 and June 2013, Shkreli caused Retrophin to enter into settlement agreements with four more MSMB investors in which Retrophin agreed to make cash payments or issue Retrophin shares to resolve their complaints about the returns on their MSMB investments:

Our staff and members are often invited to educate new audiences about the practice of shareholder advocacy and, more specifically, to represent the responsible investor voice on all of the issues we address.

As investor Salil Deshpande of Bain Capital Ventures describes it in a new Medium post about the outfit, this last scenario alone is a huge opportunity, given that «regulatory, tax and legal issues make it onerous and costly for cryptotraders to trade with fiat, and many crypto exchanges do not even offer the ability to use fiat.

When I do due diligence for investors, and I find team members hesitant or openly negative when talking about the leadership team, there is likely a trust issue, or at least a failure to communicate.

That's from Franklin Foer's story about the decline of the Democrats and the rise of populism; on Twitter, Matt Yglesias called the bit about institutional investors «the sleeper issue of our time.»

In short, we know that advisors and investors alike have many questions about the current environment, and we address many of these issues in this edition of our insights.

The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Alert to make investors aware about the potential risks of investments involving Bitcoin and other forms of virtual currency.

«There's this lingering unease about the stock because Steve is no longer around,» said Charles Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co. «The problems last quarter have raised the issue in investors» minds that Apple no longer has a leader of Steve's stature.»

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) also recently issued an Investor Alert cautioning investors about the risks of buying and using digital currency such as Bitcoin.

We previously issued an Investor Alert about the use of Bitcoin in the context of a Ponzi scheme.

Weiss Ratings, an independent U.S. agency which recently published letter grades for cryptocurrencies, has issued an alert to investors about the dangers of tether (USDT).

ESMA issued a call to submit evidence on potential interventions in crypto CFD, arguing that the very high price volatility of crypto currencies as the underlying assets have raised concerns about the protection of investors.

The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 17 - cv - 09903, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Qudian's American Depositary Receipts («ADRs») pursuant and / or traceable to Qudian's false and misleading Registration Statement and Prospectus, issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering on or about October 18, 2017 (the «IPO» or the «Offering»), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants» violations of the Securities Act of 1933 (the «Securities Act»).

The main issue for good, established companies here is not the risk to the long - term stream of cash flows, but to what extent the uncertainty about the coming year or two of earnings will frighten investors to sell at depressed prices (thereby pricing stocks to deliver even higher long - term returns).

Washington's top commodity regulator has issued a stern warning to investors about cryptocurrency pump - and - dump schemes, which have become more prevalent in the wake of the ICO boom that began last year.

Washington's top commodity regulator has issued a stern warning to investors about cryptocurrency pump - and - dump schemes, which have become more prevalent in the wake of the ICO...

In this issue of Institutional Strategy Quarterly, we explore the details behind our own long - term return assumptions and risk management process while also focusing on ways in which investors can think about the relationships among risk, return, and portfolio construction in this lower - return environment.

Over the years, Bogle has expressed numerous opinions on a multitude of issues about the changes in the financial industry that need to take place to give investors a fair shake.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

Issues hitting investor sentiment about the outlook for Deutsche Bank include a lengthy restructuring process that will be costly to see through, «unpredictable» litigation costs that are likely to remain high, and earnings under pressure from a difficult market, Adamson said.

The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issued an Investor Alert in August 2017 warning investors about scams of companies claiming to be engaging in initial coin offerings: https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/alerts-bulletins/investor-alert-public-companies-making-ico-related.

My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.

In October 2013, the year the bank issued the report, bitcoin prices were about $ 140 then climbed to $ 1,000 by Nov. 27, driven by interest from Chinese investors.

But the transaction would be a huge financial stretch, and Takeda investors have been skeptical about the merits of a Shire deal, given the size of the potential purchase and concerns that a large share issue will be needed to fund it.

That said, I have long had an issue in the way in which they think about investor behavior