Sentences with phrase «lose their investment when»

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VCs are supposed to be good - natured people who simply suck it up when they lose hundreds of millions of dollars and, in this even crazier case, when they are literally more than $ 8 billion ahead of the game on their piddly $ 27 million investment.

Even special dividends are beginning to lose their lustre, the fund managers said, particularly when viewed in the context of paltry organic investment figures.

Magazine publishers, catalog merchants and other direct marketers may break even or lose money when they first acquire a customer but recoup their investment when the subscriber renews for another year.

When you strip down the complicated investment vehicles — now being peddled for pennies on the dollar — there are people like Jack Hamersma, a boat salesman Packer wrote about who lost his job, was diagnosed with cancer and then had his house foreclosed upon.

When it comes to foreign investment and Canada's natural resources, the Tories can't get it together and the result is billions in lost revenue.

«There were so many investors that were short Amazon's stock in 2006 and 2007 that when the shares moved from $ 35 to $ 100 they lost their jobs,» says Brian Pitz, a bullish - on - Amazon analyst at investment bank Jefferies.

When markets become volatile, investment timing is lost to confusion and becomes mismatched with actual market movement.

This comes to a head in season two when he makes a disastrous investment in the speculative Grand Trunk Railroad against his broker's protestations, nearly losing all Cora's fortune.

When I think about investing vs debt, I tend to think about the Roth a bit differently than other platforms only because elapsed time is not something you can make up (both in the sense that you can not make up for lost investment time AND the fact that $ 5,500 today is worth less than that $ 5,500 was worth one year ago).

However, when the real estate market declines 15 % / yr, the equity investments also decline 10 % / yr, and one realizes they are paying (in my case 5 % / yr) for the privilege of losing money while paying for a home eventually sold for 30 % less than one paid, I can feel pretty stupid!

If the answer is «no,» it's time to sell; otherwise, the result is regret of buying a losing stock and the regret of not selling when it became clear that a poor investment decision was made — and a vicious cycle ensues where avoiding regret leads to more regret.

In the short term, market downturns are always a possibility, and when investors use equity to play the market, they risk losing out on both the investment and their homes.

When deciding a limited - risk investment, the investor is fully aware of the potential amount he or she could lose.

If the fund's NAV is lower on the day you sell shares than it was when you purchased them, you could lose some or all of your initial investment.

When the stock does lose value, most likely that means that someone is losing their job or at the very least a part of their investments.

Tell me more about the circumstances when friends lost 100 % of syndication investment if you don't mind.

And Compass, which was tapped to sell CL Investment's $ 300.2 million luxury condo conversion at 287 Park Avenue South, lost out when the developers shelved the plans in November.

You can easily lose your investment or a large percentage of it, like we saw when most American's retirement and 401k accounts lost 40 %.

Too many traders have lost the entirety of their investment and did not receive a satisfactory reply from technical support when asked what happened to their money.

When I look at mistakes, I would figure out what was the reason the investment lost money and was that reason visible at the outset?

They just made assumptions regarding how the investments work and felt scammed when they lost money and discovered that the investments didn't work as they assumed.

And with the low trade minimum dollar amount, traders can afford to risk losing a few dollar amounts when going after a big return on investment.

Unfortunately, we lost money when the project went sideways — but my grandpa returned my investment in full.

The riskier types of funds, such as aggressive growth funds, may do well when the market is doing well, but when the market isn't doing so well, the riskier types of funds can tank and you could lose your investment.

When investing in speculative stocks of this nature, it is possible to lose your entire investment over time.

In the March 2018 draft of their paper entitled «Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications», Clifford Asness and Aaron Brown ponder when a losing hockey coach should pull the goalie as a metaphor for focusing on portfolio - level return and portfolio - level risk management.

When I was reading the biography of Charlie Munger, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a man that I can fairly classify as a personal hero of mine, he mentioned that steel companies are the kinds of investments «where smart people lose their money.»

When considering your non-stock investment choices, keep in mind one of the cardinal rules of investing: Never invest money that you can't afford to lose.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Aussie Farmers was losing $ 500,000 a week when directors finally pulled the plug in March after major shareholders including Everyday Gourmet, Hendale AM (Singapore) and Sujajo Investments withdrew their support following unsuccessful efforts to restructure, recapitalise or sell the business.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said the $ 275 million investment will create 380 direct roles and 460 contract positions, including for General Motors Holden workers who are set to lose their jobs when their plant in Elizabeth closes.

Kroenke will only ever leave when he sees his investment losing ground.

When dogs receiving less than 25 % of spread bets have lost the previous week, their return on investment (ROI) increases from 7.4 % to 10.8 %.

«I've currently lost investment worth thousands of Ghana cedis last year when the armyworms infested my farm.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

That means winning some and losing some when it comes to government investment, like Solyndra.

January 5, 2017 • San Luis Potosi state lost out on more than a billion dollars in investment and thousands of jobs when Ford changed plans and nixed a factory.

However all's not lost when you're the titan of high finance — there's still an abundance of cash in reserve and Seth, one of Rick's partners, spots an opportunity to salvage the company's reputation with an investment that's both sound and PR - friendly.

The 28 New York school districts that lost investments totaling $ 40 - million when a government - securities dealer declared bankruptcy last spring have tentatively agreed to a settlement that will recoup $ 17.5 million of their losses.

And with the low trade minimum dollar amount, traders can afford to risk losing a few dollar amounts when going after a big return on investment.

Liquidity — There is also the «liquidity» risk; how easily can you turn your investment back into cash when you need it without losing money.

These fixed - return investments will lose value when interest rates rise, but not enough to make a serious dent in their value, because of their short terms.

It is easy to see why this option is so acceptable to lenders, whose fears when reading low credit scores on loan applications is that their investment will be lost.

Unfortunately, there is no lucky hand when it comes to the market, and adults should discourage their parents of taking on riskier investments to recoup their lost nest eggs.

Short ProShares should lose value when their market indexes rise; and they entail certain risks, including, in some or all cases, aggressive investment techniques, inverse correlation and market price variance risks, all of which can increase volatility and decrease performance.

When I started investment, I made mistakes and lost my money, because that time I had no experience.

That's because it's impossible to build a lasting clientele when you place your clients in investments in which they are almost certain to lose money.

Commercial banks, all joking aside, have usually been pretty good at making loan decisions; conversely, when investment banks dominated the marketplace, risk was a function of how much capital a firm was willing to lose at one time.

Letting the tax tail wag the investment dog cost me probably $ 30,000 as the stock never hit that high again and when the whole British Telecom / WorldCom merger craziness hit the fan, I left the company losing the options.

So, just to confirm, if you don't re-invest your dividends, are you losing out on this potential to minimize your capital gains because the dividends are paid out in cash and then you just get taxed on it at the end of the tax year and when you sell your investment, you potentially will have a larger difference between the sale price and book value (assuming your security increased in value), and thus pay a higher capital gains tax.