Sentences with phrase «of bonding companies»

I teach contract Law, the use of bonding companies to hold government criminals accountable.

«Once a year I sit down with my banker, my attorney, and representatives of my bonding company and my insurance company for a «state - of - the - state» analysis of our company.

Not exact matches

It's no wonder that companies pay a ton of money to be featured in the «getting ready» scenes between Q and James Bond.

Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

His legal background proved invaluable in 1991, when the state of California and its insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized Raleigh's then - financial partner Executive Life Insurance Company after the value of the insurer's multibillion - dollar portfolio collapsed — a fate tied to its massive investments in the junk bond market of the go - go 1980s.

For example, interest - rate - sensitive income stocks and bonds tend to do well coming out of the trough, and more cyclical companies excel later on as the recovery gains steam.

Asset managers say they've seen a notable number of companies fail to close dollar - denominated bond deals of late.

(If I owned, for example, $ 1,000,000 of «AAA» - rated bonds from a large US company I could very easily sell them at market price right now.

«We decided we could fly them in every quarter and bond with the team, and also we provide them with extra services to make sure they feel like they're a part of the company and a part of the goings - on here on a daily basis,» Smith says.

Vicki Bryan, senior analyst of independent research for bond - rating company Gim me Credit, said Valeant's problems aren't over with the termination of its relationship with Philidor.

Convertible bonds are securities that pay interest, but give the bondholders the right to convert them to equity shares; they're basically a way to bet on the growth potential of a company without taking the risk of buying common shares.

Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of government bonds it buys to three years because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.

The company had a net loss of 10 million yuan (US$ 1.57 million) in the first half of last year, a bond default this year, and it has racked up debts of at least 3 billion yuan.

So besides being a bonding experience and sort of baptism into the company culture, giving new hires have a customer's - eye - view of the business helps them clarify priorities and be more innovative when they do start in their «real» role.

The company declined to comment on the performance of its bonds or its credit ratings.

As even more employees download work - related information and data onto their personal phones, these three factors are conspiring to make company data a potential casualty of biometric technology's legal protection problem, Bond says.

«If all it takes is a fingerprint swipe by an employee, at that point the control of the information is out of the hands of the company,» Bond says.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

The move is a novel way for the San Mateo, Calif., company to finance the enormous cost of installing panels on thousands of roofs — a typical residential system costs $ 25,000 — while appealing to retail investors who are on the hunt for better rates of return than they can find in savings accounts and government bonds.

Since 2009, his company has provided surety bonds and working capital to hundreds of small contractors and builders.

Recently revived Eastern Goldfields has called on the Department of Mines and Petroleum to withdraw a request for $ 8.6 million worth of the company's bonds.

According to the Global Market Strategy team at JP Morgan, pension funds and insurance companies in the G4 - United States, euro zone, Japan and Britain - will buy at least $ 640 billion of bonds this year.

But there are no public financials on Dell since last fall, because the company structured all of its bonds as Rule 144a for - life.

That's left a lot of junk bond fund managers with plenty of exposure to the energy sector at a time when oil prices have crashed and defaults, particularly among fracking companies, are rising.

Each state has its own set of procedures and requirements companies must meet to receive a bond allocation.

Late last month, chemical company Altice had to cut back a bond offering and increase the interest rate to 11 % on a portion of a multi-billion dollar deal.

That money, which is mostly held in short - term U.S. bonds and money market funds, was kept in Ireland for years, until an investigation by the European Union into whether the company failed to pay taxes caused it to move its holdings to Jersey, a small island off the coast of Normandy that rarely taxes corporations.

Publicly communicating and recognizing small victories does several things — it reinforces the importance of goal setting, builds positive momentum company - wide and allows coworkers to bond over shared accomplishments.

It's particularly true when your team is only a few people trying to build the kinds of bonds that will take them through the inevitable rough waters every company will have to sail through.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

And bonds at some well - known companies, like American Express and retailer Neiman Marcus, have been trading at 30 % of their original value.

Broader green bond indices, usually an assortment of companies and sectors often unrelated to renewable energy generation, have seen lacklustre returns, much lower than those of appropriately - defined indices.

The idea that small companies should be able to sell small amounts of stocks and bonds to investors — which they've been prohibited from doing since the Depression — has exploded over the past few years.

Bonds of companies with high credit scores haven't suffered much yet, but those companies typically borrow from the bond market.

Energy Future, the biggest power company in Texas, can claim an ignominious distinction in the annals of American business history: Warren Buffett considers his nearly $ 2 billion investment in the company's bonds one of the biggest mistakes he's ever made.

Two companies that guaranteed payments on Detroit bonds, Syncora Guarantee Inc and Financial Guaranty Insurance Co, received options to develop parcels of land.

While getting employees out of the office on their annual day of service can cost between $ 150,000 to $ 200,000, Williams is quick to point out, «The passion this creates and the bond it instills in a company makes it one of the best ROI decisions you could possibly make.»

TSF includes off - balance sheet forms of financing that exist outside the conventional bank lending system, such as initial public offerings, loans from trust companies and bond sales.

The board has been dealing with the volatility of publicly traded stocks and low returns from government bonds by diversifying into other forms of assets, including equity in private companies and investments in infrastructure such as highways and real estate.

No more waiting around till your company hits the multimillion - dollar mark - now bonds are for businesses of all sizes.

If you have 10 % of your investment capital in cash in a trust company, 40 % in bonds at an independent brokerage firm, and 50 % in equities at a bank - owned firm, how many portfolios do you have?

Seadrill said the approved plan, which extends maturities of $ 5.7 billion in bank debts, converts $ 2.3 billion of unsecured bonds to equity and injects $ 1 billion in new debt and equity, would enable the company to take advantage of a market recovery.

«If the company restructures or goes into bankruptcy, the recovery value of the bond is greater than the current price,» he wrote.)

That's why Kaplan suggests that business owners looking for appreciation beyond the growing value of their companies speak to an investment advisor about assembling a portfolio composed of a combination of equities, real estate and hard assets and generating current income through bonds and dividend - paying stocks.

«We launched because of 9/11,» she says of her company, which is headquartered on Bond Street in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood.

Moreover, Moody's said the ranks of the lowest level of junk bond issuers are growing, with an 8 percent quarterly increase and 27 percent growth annually, thanks in large part to weakness in oil and gas companies.

That has Deutsche Bank wondering if there is likely to be a wave of companies failing to pay interest on their bonds.

Unlike large companies with many stakeholders, a focused entrepreneur in a niche market has a leg up in building community by virtue of their common bond around a narrow topic.

Since 2008 there have been $ 280 billion in net redemptions from stock mutual funds, vs. $ 645 billion in net sales of bond funds, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Shell companies, along with junk bonds, penny stocks, and shoulder pads, are usually dismissed as an unfortunate trend of the 1980s.