Why so
much investment by so many people in so unlikely a cause?
Not exact matches
But in December lead proponent Petronas pushed back its final
investment decision
by as
much as a year.
Michal Kauffman writes:
By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc..
By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant
investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened
by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc..
by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing
investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and
much of their work gets automated, etc....
Cloud computing can provide savings — as
much as 50 % — for smaller businesses
by lowering their upfront
investments and even freeing them from having to set up IT functions on - site.
«Your
investment return is entirely driven
by how management creates a transaction, how
much leverage is used, who is sent in to manage that company, how long they keep the company and more,» says Dupont.
Management consultancy Oliver Wyman has estimated global
investment research spend could fall
by as
much as $ 1.5 billion annually, when the rules come into force in January.
He added that ICOs backed
by real assets would allow companies to circumvent
much of the Wall Street middleman apparatuses, such as the army of
investment bankers and venture capitalists, and sell directly to would - be stakeholders.
Beyond those
investments, however, the duo grew Estately
by grabbing as
much free stuff as possible, including mooching server hosting from another startup, using online tools such as Google Apps and Google Voice, taking free lunches and dinners whenever possible and working out of Cole's basement apartment where Ward took over Cole's wife's desk while she was off getting her PhD.
The initiative also offers an entrée into the country's tight circle of well - heeled venture capitalists, whose
investments are being matched as
much as 3 to 1
by the Chilean government.
By targeting refineries, already suffering from a lack of
investment, Mexico's most notorious criminals gain access to nerve centers for
much of the country's fuel supply.
Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in
investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline
by 40 per cent over the course of the year.
To be clear, MoneySense did that piece not so
much to encourage investors to grab some indirect exposure to Bitcoin, but to make them aware of how their stock
investments may already be being affected
by the mania.
The growing boycott of YouTube
by advertisers could cost its parent company Google as
much as $ 750 million in revenue, according to one Wall Street
investment firm.
We can learn
much about the traits of Chinese
investment by looking to Australia.
For all the indications that younger investors may be catching onto a «buy - and - hold» stock
investment strategy, it's important to note that millennials have
much less to invest, and to lose,
by staying in the market than their parents who are close to retirement.
If you're depending on your portfolio to throw off a certain amount of cash and you take too
much risk
by choosing
investments that are too volatile, you could come up short regarding your living expenses and be forced to accelerate withdrawals, increasing the chances that you'll run out of money or shortchange your estate.
A new report released Monday
by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities said
investment is needed now to prevent «a rapid decline» in the condition of
much of the country's infrastructure, which is overseen
by local governments.
But
much of this
investment was enabled
by growing debt, both government and corporate, rather than profits.
Four mutual fund companies holding Uber
investments recently marked down their shares
by as
much as 15 %, according to the latest disclosure documents released.
You can invest in bond funds
by stated maturities (short - term, intermediate - term, long - term), credit quality (treasuries, junk bonds,
investment grade corporate bonds) or pretty
much any other way you can separate bond
investments.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump's daughter and son - in - law, will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and
investment business still worth as
much as $ 740 million, despite their new government responsibilities, according to ethics filings released
by the White House Friday night.
Indiegogo could shake up the field
by bringing
investment opportunities to a
much wider audience.
What Mr. Obama initially proposed was to end a major tax benefit provided
by 529 plans, which shield earnings on
investments from taxes on capital gains and dividends
much like a Roth IRA.
The fees for such services are
much lower than what is charged
by typical
investment managers.
By having a thorough understanding of your risk appetite, the purpose of each
investment in your portfolio and the implementation plan of your strategy, it allows you to feel
much more confident about your
investment plan and be less likely to make common behavioral mistakes.
While there will be exceptions to the rule, you are
much,
much better off with a boring strategy
by sticking with low - cost
investments.
By providing ways to automate your investing, they have become a great start up
investment for new investors that don't have too
much to work with.
While an improved economy and rising stock market have helped private institutions repair
much of the Great Recession's damage to their endowments, the biggest
investment gains and largest gifts are flowing to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis
by Moody's.
«I'm not sure I can add very
much value to what the other speakers have already said,» Mohamed El - Erian humbly began in a speech at the 2012 Strategic
Investment Conference Thursday afternoon, jointly hosted by the alternative investment firm Altegris and Millennium Wave Investments in Carlsba
Investment Conference Thursday afternoon, jointly hosted
by the alternative
investment firm Altegris and Millennium Wave Investments in Carlsba
investment firm Altegris and Millennium Wave
Investments in Carlsbad, Calif..
The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid
by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so
much additional
investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.
By contrast, 20 years ago, companies spent four times as
much on such
investments as they did on buybacks.
The
investment outlook may also depend on how
much progress China can make in its efforts to enact fiscal reforms as it works through its historic shift from export - led growth to an economy led
by domestic consumption.
The federal tax mix also continues to penalize savings and
investment by relying too
much on income tax and too little on the GST.
While banks are a bit exposed
by investment in US institutions, Pavlov doesn't think they'll lose
much.
Investment advisors can have a
much greater impact
by:
Then again,
by June 2016, when the board was expanded and the Saudi
investment was announced, Gurley's posts had taken a
much sterner tone: specifically, in February 2015 Gurley warned that late - stage financing was very different than an IPO, and that it had «perverse effects on a company's operating discipline.»
ARKK's performance in 2017 was at least partially driven
by its allocation to the Bitcoin
Investment Trust and the notorious «FANG» stocks (Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google / Alphabet) that have recently had so
much influence on the direction of the U.S. stock market.
The 2017 Economic and Fiscal Update provides some detailed data (see pp. 51 - 53) on who will be impacted
by the government's plan to limit how
much passive
investment income can be earned in a private corporation.
You should read a previous essay
by Michael titled «How
Much Investment is Optimal.»
I get one for free, though
much less involved in my day - to - day
investments, from Schwab just
by having an account there.
If excess European savings flow primarily into developed countries — the US being the most obvious candidate — or into developing countries with excess
investment and savings — China, most obviously, not so
much by flowing in as
by preventing outflows — it will cause European unemployment to shift abroad to those countries.
Gold has a
much larger liquid market that is driven mostly
by investment and jewelry demand.
If it is
much higher, then a contraction in the trade deficit can not occur without a contraction in net foreign
investment, which would only increase the gap between desired and actual
investment by reducing actual
investment levels.
I think the mechanism is fairly easy to understand and has already been
much discussed, for example well over 100 years ago
by John Hobson who showed how rising income inequality can cause both higher savings and lower opportunities for productive
investment.
So far I've more than doubled my initial
investment in the past couple years,
much more than the meager returns offered
by dividend stocks.
On the other hand, real estate can be controlled
much easier
by investing correctly in assets that are under market value with multiple exit strategies that help increase the return on the
investment while decreasing the risk.
Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre
investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500
by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized
investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was
much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).
Of course, the ideal is to avoid the «slow bleed» of option time decay as
much as possible,
by taking a highly defensive
investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomes.
The BJP election manifesto, written
by party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, emphasized infrastructure development, which could see as
much as $ 1 trillion in
investment over next five years.
There is no question the Fiduciary Rule will hurt the bottom line for many financial service companies that profit from conflicted retirement plan
investment advice — possibly reducing their revenue
by as
much as $ 17 billion per year!