Sentences with phrase «making general investments»

She discussed «repairing crumbling schools» and making general investments in school facilities and technology.

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• General Atlantic made an investment of an undisclosed amount in Mi9 Retail, a Miami, Fla. - based retail software provider.

Tyson New Ventures already made an investment in plant - based food startup Beyond Meat, which also scored funding from General Mills» VC arm 301 Inc. «The reason Beyond Meat made sense to us is because we are focused not only on animal protein, but protein overall,» Hayes said.

These trends are part of the reason oil company Cenovus Energy made an investment in General Fusion.

Starboard, an investment management firm, owns 4.5 % of Media General's shares, making it one of the company's largest shareholders.

Jon Woods, general manager of Coca - Cola Great Britain, said in a statement that the $ 14 million campaign is «the biggest investment» the company has made in a new product launch in a decade.

The array of portfolio companies and investments that made him rich may appear random — he's bet on companies including Coca - Cola, American Express, Geico, Fruit of the Loom, Dairy Queen, and General Motors — but they're all cash - generating machines that offer long - term value.

You can also qualify for special treatment if you are an executive officer, direct, or general partner of the business in which you want to make a venture capital investment.

[5] It is intended to exclude proposals made primarily for the purpose of promoting general social and political causes, while requiring inclusion of proposals a reasonable investor would believe are relevant to the value of his investment.

It's a move that Uber's primary U.S. competitor Lyft made earlier this year with its partnership and strategic investment from General Motors.

It is intended to exclude proposals made primarily for the purpose of promoting general social and political causes, while requiring inclusion of proposals a reasonable investor would believe are relevant to the value of his investment.

In general, the best advice is to make sure your investment strategy fits your financial expectations for the future.

General Partner: Partnerships make bigger investments practical.

The relevant Disclosure Memo, which sets forth general information about venture investments in a fund or partnership made through the EF Site;

The general partner is an entity through which the fund managers make management, disposition and other decisions related to the fund's investments and business affairs, and the limited partners are passive investors, such as pension funds, foundations, insurance companies and high net worth individuals.

While investors need information from various sources to make decisions, it is important to make a distinction between general market noise and relevant investment signals.

Andreessen Horowitz has eight general partners — eight guys who make the investment decisions and take seats on the boards of the startups they fund.

Yet, women are estimated to represent only 1 % of investment decision making general partners (GPs) in venture capital today.

Women represent only 1 % of investment decision making general partners (GPs) in venture capital today.

These improving conditions have encouraged large multinational companies, like IBM, Wal - Mart Inc., General Electric, Procter & Gamble, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, to make significant investments in African economies.

The investment decisions of private companies, for example — decisions that affect how and where people work and what and how much they produce — are made in offices far removed from those workers or the general public.

Regardless of the standard of his general play, he usually finds a way, and against City at Old Trafford he almost looked like his old self again; from back when Sir Alex Ferguson used to rely on him to be everywhere, covering for United's lack of a midfield, driving the team on from deep and generally making up for the lack of investment in the squad after the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.

Another investment they make is that when a legislator is a «friend,» both in the general voting, but, especially, as a member of committees, they get rewarded afterwards with 7 - and 8 - figure «consulting» contracts after they leave office for jobs as lobbyists for companies they were supposed to oversee, lobbying their former colleagues.

«The new Bill, once signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari will help to make Nigeria's business environment as competitive as its counterparts around the world; allow business owners to now register their businesses in a faster and more efficient way — using technology; removes all the unnecessary regulatory provisions — such as the requirement for «annual general meetings» and «company secretaries»; and reduces the minimum share capital for all companies and start - ups in Nigeria — which will encourage more investments and create new jobs.»

Three candidates couldn't make through the National Assembly hearing process under the current president for the last four years because of (1) his speculative investment in real estate using secret information, (2) earning too much money when working as a lawyer, and (3) his historical viewpoint that lawmakers and general public don't endorse or agree to.

The main reason for their current lack of confidence in low - carbon investment is the repeated attacks Chancellor Osborne and the Tory right have made on environmental regulation in general, and renewables in particular.

Former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver made more than $ 750,000 from «investments not available to the general public,» using money obtained from allegedly corrupt schemes, according to a superseding indictment filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office on Thursday.

This suggests that the expansion in federal investment in R&D over the past several decades has resulted not only from a commitment to the «endless frontier» of science and technology, but perhaps as importantly from the general growth of discretionary spending which allowed greater government investments to be made in a variety of areas including S&T.

Driverless taxis gained more attention when General Motors Co. in early January made a $ 500 million investment in the ride - sharing company Lyft to develop a network of autonomous, on - demand vehicles.

In general, managers should make decisions about marketing investments based on their customers» perceptions of the service and the service environment.»

Students who end up at many HBCUs «are in general making more of an investment — and their families are making more of an investment» to go there, Dowling said.

This office is the preeminent source of objective, credible, and timely transportation statistics that are the basis for critical policy and investment decision making by governments at every level, the private sector, and the general public.

For Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Waymo's approval to launch an autonomous ride - hailing service in the state of Arizona means that the automaker gets a foothold in the self - driving vehicle space without having to put forth anything like the investments made by Ford Motor Company or General Motors.

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.

For most investors the general framework for making investment decisions is based on performance.

If you wanted to make a great investment back in this day, General Electric would have performed very well considering all of the stock splits it had.

However, you can always contribute your full ISA allowance in an ISA account and then any further additions can be made to a General Investment Account.

However, I can give general recommendations that are made without the personal information necessary to do the work of an investment advisor.

You make a great general point, that I shouldn't treat this any differently than any other investment (just because it's an «insiders» deal, and I have a relationship which allows me this opportunity).

Our superb investment results in General Growth Properties, where the stock price had declined more than 99 % before we made our first purchase, gave us confidence that we could assist Valeant in a turnaround after its stock price collapse.

But instead of investing your money in the insurance company's general account, as with a fixed annuity, your money is invested in a separate account made up of a number of different investment subaccounts.

Let me demonstrate the point about value creation being independent of general market levels by reviewing various investments that currently make up, or have in the recent past been, a significant part of the Third Avenue Value Fund portfolio.

Vanguard managed funds were more risky in general, and their managers did not make prescient style adjustments, as market returns for different investment styles (e.g. growth versus value) fluctuated.

In general, for assets that are held in taxable accounts, the tax basis is the cost of the capital investment plus any legitimate transactions costs associated with making that investment.

This information is general in nature, is provided for educational purposes only, and should not be interpreted as accounting, financial planning, investment, legal or tax advice or relied on for any decisions you may make.

According to Alexi Maravel, associate director at Cerulli, the way a particular insurance company is reacting to a likely interest rate hike depends on its business line: «Life insurance companies, which control the largest amount of insurance general account assets and have to match long - duration liabilities with long - duration assets, are making investment adjustments to their surplus assets, while, on the other end of the spectrum, we find health insurers are raising liquidity.»

Another general comment to be made about buy - and - hold as an investment strategy refers to investors who are looking to generate income from their investments.

While it is obvious that a company of any size could do well or poorly on the stock market, there are general trends for different sized companies that can help you make informed investment decisions.

By providing this general information, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association makes neither a recommendation as to the appropriateness of investing in fixed - income securities nor is it providing any specific investment advice for any particular investor.