With all the talk of Prime Air — the much - hyped futuristic delivery service Bezos first announced in 2013 — it's perhaps surprising Amazon hasn't
made public investments in drone companies.
«We have seen in Buffalo and Niagara Falls when
you make public investment in infrastructure it is followed by private sector investment,» Higgins said, listing a number of projects.
«We have to
make a public investment in our community.
«We're
making public investment in charters to strengthen the overall public education system.»
It also
makes public investments.
Not exact matches
But while the potential is sky - high, broad adoption by corporations and
public agencies has been hampered by both slow - moving regulators and buyers» reluctance to
make big
investments in what remains a technological Wild West, where new partnerships and platforms regularly threaten to reshape the landscape.
But starting up any sort of
public cloud infrastructure requires considerable
investment, and Dell may lack the internal drive and resources to
make such a thing happen at this time.»
Other partners at the hedge fund firm he co-founded, Brevan Howard Asset Management, have independently
made similar
investments, the people said, asking not to be named because the information isn't
public.
While several university presidents at both
public and private schools
make more than $ 1 million, there are even more
investment managers at university endowments being compensated at that level of higher.
«Given the highly speculative nature of Bitcoin, we have all along urged the
public to exercise extra caution when considering
making transactions or
investments with Bitcoin.»
They'll request and review a lot of documents, including communications with the
public and the type and extent of client information gathered by the advisor in order to
make their
investment recommendations.
An initial
investment in Facebook in 2012, when it
made its initial
public offering, would be worth slightly more than $ 4,600 as of Wednesday, according to CNBC calculations.
«Prior to the privatisation of Telstra, successive Australian governments had
made substantial
investments in the
public switched network, and were reluctant to develop or maintain a domestic satellite network,» he said.
Susan Alt, senior vice president of
public affairs for Volvo Group North America, said the EPA's proposal «
makes a mockery» of the company's
investments to develop clean diesel engines and will «hurt a large number of small businesses who are not selling glider vehicles.»
The more - than - billion - dollar capital
investment we are
making in our facilities around the world this year is easier for a private company than a
public one.»
• Harkness Capital
made an
investment of an undisclosed amount in Southwest Foodservice Excellence, a Scottsdale, Ariz. - based provider of outsourced food services to K - 12
public school districts.
As the private deals get too big for VCs to underwrite on their own, some
public money is
making its way into them, through direct
investments from mutual funds like Fidelity, Janus, and T. Rowe Price, and indirectly via pension - backed hedge funds and private equity.
Another assumption that
public pension funds are
making in setting lower
investment target rates is that inflation will remain low for some time.
The early investor cashed out big when the company went
public in 2012 — the IPO raised $ 16 billion,
making it one of the largest IPOs of all time — and turned Thiel's initial
investment into over $ 1 billion.
Ryan Cotton, the Bain managing director who led the
investment, identifies three strengths that he believes will
make Toms, one day, a multibillion - dollar
public company: its reputation as a philanthropic pioneer, its enthusiastic customers (who may want to become shareholders), and its potential to expand beyond footwear into a broad lifestyle brand.
New road construction and ITS
investments can thus
make public transit even more attractive.
Your goal is to diversify your net worth by
making public equity
investments equal to no more than 50 % of your net worth because you realize the value of various asset classes.
What
makes MicroVentures different is that we are a full service online platform for venture capital
investments that is open to the
public.
Now that «we've finally recovered from the recession,» Williams said, it's time for the private and
public sectors to «step up and take the lead in
making the
investments and enacting policies needed to improve the longer - term prospects of our economy and society.»
I believe you think we are heading for a long period of low returns, but still, with such a long
investment horizon ahead of you, don't you think it could
make sense to be more exposed to
public equities, maybe in passive index funds, and trust the long term wealth building power of that asset class without so much attention to continuous portfolio rebalancing trying to anticipate short term returns?
In particular, a variety of attributes
make Canada an attractive
investment destination, including our sound
public finances, resilient financial system, and credible monetary policy.
Grondin said his
public appeal «likely helped» Vallée convince her cabinet colleagues on the need to
make major
investments in the justice system.
Of course, these
investments carry a lot higher risk thresholds which
make them much less viable as
investment vehicles for a majority of people, but regardless it's time for the technologies that have improved
public markets for the individual investor to help them go private as well.
(f) Using funds raised by Retrophin in a private
investment in
public equity («PIPE») transaction in February 2013 (the «February PIPE») to
make a personal
investment in that PIPE and thereby acquire 180,000 shares worth over $ 5.3 million today.
And when we put
public money into companies, we should demand a quid pro quo,
make it an
investment, not a bail out.»
We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «
public goods,» meaning
investments that, absent
public support, would be insufficiently
made from the perspective of society's well - being.
It may be helpful to speak with a financial advisor or certified
public accountant who can help you identify whether you should be
making this
investment and for how much.
Making the appointment of Cohn even more of a travesty and insult to the American people, Cohn is reported to own more than $ 200 million in Goldman Sachs stock, much of it awarded to him during the company's years of selling their fraudulent mortgage
investments to
public pension funds.
Monetizing debt creation at the expense of households worsens the imbalances and
makes the economy even more dependent on
public sector
investment, which means that the debt burden would grow even more quickly.
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makes investments to support innovation and to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of integrated supply chain, back - office leading practices and operational excellence by driving collaboration and improving supply chain processes in Ontario's broader
public sector.
With jittery
public markets, growing interest by large healthcare systems and an increased appetite to
make plays in the regulated space (which may demand more resources), the consensus is that we should see more strategic
investments and acquisitions and potentially consolidation in the coming year.
You have full control over which of your activities will be
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investment amounts.
When that didn't work, they forbade corporations and
investment funds from selling at all and
made it clear that bearish
public comments about the stock market would not be tolerated.
Therefore, upon
making an
investment, people receive tokens that will then increase in value when the company reaches success - therefore, companies are
making their shares available to the investing
public without having to get listed onto the stock market.
The process took me to the Philippines and enabled me to see government initiatives, private sector
investments, and
public - private partnerships that were designed to
make the country a BPO hub in Asia and globally.
Village officials hope
making the payment will help stave off future downgrades, but the entire hotel boondoggle is already a prime example of a government's misguided priorities in
public investment, which comes at the expense of taxpayers.
Recent rumors about Peltz taking an interest in Legg Mason
made serious waves in the market, for example, while Bloomberg has listed Peltz among several big shots who were raising
public money to
make mortgage
investments earlier in June.
Nordstrom had hoped to escape the capriciousness of the
public markets — not to mention the glare of the spotlight on its earnings each quarter — and free up the company to
make longer - term
investments.
Mr. Jiwan has led teams that have
made substantial
investments in private and
public companies across several major industry groups and regions of the world.
In cases where the likelihood of an acquisition or Initial
Public Offering aren't likely, we will not
make equity
investments and will instead explore debt financing as well as quasi-equity structures like royalty financing, revenue - share agreements, and when appropriate, factoring.
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.
In principle, just as lower interest rates are supposed to
make private
investment more profitable, they should do the same to
public investment.
«In the quarters after going
public we were
making different
investments, placing different bets,» Woodman said.
 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «
investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to
make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the
public equity share).