Sentences with phrase «on divesting»

It is the strongest possible encouragement to all those people across the world who are now actively working on divesting public funds from fossil fuel companies and all those people who actively engage in campaigns against destructive fossil fuels infrastructure.

Also at 11 a.m., Sen. Liz Krueger and Assemblyman Felix Ortiz host a forum on divesting the State Common Retirement Fund from fossil fuel holdings, Legislative Office Building, Room 944A, Albany.

However, the high - powered former accountant, who worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers prior to becoming a trusted financial fixer for United's unpopular owners, who are focussed on divesting rather than investing in the club in order to increase their personal wealth, is more than just a bean counter.

The government will now move forward on divesting those assets.

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It might sound a little fatalistic, but it's pure pragmatism to consider that you may someday want to divest yourself of this venture or bring on an equal partner.

LAGOS, May 2 - Nigerian energy firm Forte Oil said it plans to sell its upstream services and power businesses in Nigeria and divest from Ghana to focus on its core fuel distribution operation at home.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

A campaign by the Guardian has called on the Gates foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity, to divest their large endowments of fossil fuels.

Qalaa will divest a number of its non-core assets over the next five years and reinvest the money into the five key sectors it is now focusing on, says Ahmed Heikal, chairman and founder of Qalaa Holdings.

Divesting assets also leaves Barrick with less cash coming in on a recurring basis.

In March of this year he launched Stocksy as a co-op on an agrarian model, one that pays contributors 50 % off the bat and then pays dividends at the end of the year, divesting 90 % of its profits.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to private biotech company Orchard Therapeutics as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's pharmaceuticals portfolio.

Then on Friday a shareholder group — including investors Shervin Pishevar, Ron Burkle and Adam Leber — demanded venture capital firm Benchmark divest some of its shares and step down from the board of the troubled start - up.

LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to Orchard Therapeutics, it said on Thursday, as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's pharmaceuticals portfolio.

Finally, the firm has been moving to divest itself of assets in places like Egypt and the Gulf of Mexico, to focus more on its onshore North American holdings.

To save the company then, Chen needs to focus on this core viable business and quickly divest all assets not directly related to it.

In fact, part of this extrication from Zynga in today's contract changes is an attempt to divest the two companies from such dependence on one another.

It is also considering divesting some of its non-core downtown Toronto assets, primarily office space, located on prime commercial land.

National Australia Bank's MLC - home to the country's largest retail superannuation fund and $ 199 billion in assets under management - officially joined the bulging list of financial services sector initial public offering candidates on Thursday morning, when NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn flagged intentions to divest the business.

On May 31, we announced our intention to divest in Cole Haan and Umbro.

«The Deputy Commissioner made clear that Mr. Trump must divest himself not only of managerial control, but of all ownership interest as well,» Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland and three other Democrats said in the letter, which was made public on Wednesday.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is calling on school pension fund managers to divest of companies that make «assault weapons.»

Divesting DirecTV would eliminate the price decrease for millions of DirecTV consumers predicted by the government itself, and divesting Turner would eliminate the content innovations and the advertising benefits that put downward pressure on Turner prices,» AT&T said in a courDivesting DirecTV would eliminate the price decrease for millions of DirecTV consumers predicted by the government itself, and divesting Turner would eliminate the content innovations and the advertising benefits that put downward pressure on Turner prices,» AT&T said in a courdivesting Turner would eliminate the content innovations and the advertising benefits that put downward pressure on Turner prices,» AT&T said in a court filing.

Once the company realized the potential of its mobile communications products, it began to divest and sell those other operations and Nokia became what it is today - a company focused on telecommunications technology.

This has increased pressure on companies with oil sands assets to improve (i.e., reduce) their environmental footprint, and in some cases, to divest such assets.

We called on you to divest your money from Trojan Horse businesses with no regard to community — to us the long - term residents and businesses of New York City.

To build a successful business, you must resist the temptation to divest your capital or profit; you must resist the urge to spend your money on frivolous activities.

In the last several years, it has divested itself of many assets, including The Boston Globe and About.com, to focus on its core mission — The Times's journalism.

As Richard Rubin pointed out to me on Twitter, section 1043 of the Code is designed to help with similar situations when the certain executive or judicial branch members are required to divest to avoid a conflict of interest.

Shares of Nigeria's Forte Oil fell to one - week low on Thursday after the energy firm announced plans to seek a shareholder vote to divest subsidiaries in Nigeria and Ghana.

On the other hand, many pages are spent divesting the biblical picture of the Second Coming of any taint of supernaturalism.

Newman explains: «A man who thus divests himself of his own greatness, and puts himself on the level of his brethren, and throws himself upon the sympathies of human nature, and speaks with such simplicity and such spontaneous outpouring of heart, is forthwith in a condition both to conceive great love of them, and to inspire great love towards himself.»

Almost all of their explicit discussions of divine coercion center on the question of whether God can coerce in the strong sense — i.e., whether God can totally divest another entity of all power of self - determination.

Jesus, on the contrary, far from grasping at higher powers, willingly divested himself of those which he possessed and voluntarily left heaven to suffer as a man upon the earth.

Religion News Service: United Methodists reject calls for divestment from Israel - related companies United Methodists twice rejected measures on Wednesday that called for the denomination to divest from companies accused of contributing to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Reflecting on the second - half of the financial year Fonterra said it returned its Australian operations to profitability by taking out costs, reducing working capital and divesting non-core business assets, including shares in Bega Cheese and Dairy technology Services.

It is understood that if the deal is approved conditional on the sale of selected sites, Woolworths will receive payment in full and BP will take on the risk of divesting sites.

But don't think for a second just because Harvick's been divested of being a NASCAR owner he now has all this extra time on his hands.

Are there public (preferable Internet - accessible) records available that make it clear whether Scaramucci was in fact able to divest on these special terms despite a very brief tenure (10 days only, if memory serves)?

De Blasio is calling on all government pension funds to divest from assault weapon manufacturers.

A full - throated campaign has taken root at the University at Buffalo, calling on officials to divest endowment funds from fossil fuel companies, as several universities around the country already have done.

Last year, after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the other three of the city's five pension funds to further divest their holdings in companies that manufacture weapons and ammunition.

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

Indeed one reason why even the most virulent attacks on God give rise to no upheaval in the Muslim world, something that only insults to the Prophet and his Book are capable of doing, is because the former has suffered a kind of «death» while the latter has increasingly been divested of his metaphysical attributes.

The County Legislature's Rules Committee on Monday unanimously approved a bill that would disqualify bidders for county work if they've boycotted or divested from Israeli businesses or supported sanctions against Israel — known as the «BDS movement.»

I should take a quote from «Equities Market Outlook in 2017» issued by Afrinvest reported in the media under the headline «Multiple Exchange Rates Stall Foreign Inflow into Nigerian Equities» in January 2017, «Our interactions with several foreign investors with interests in Nigeria suggest that a decision to stake any position in the Nigerian market will be a function of currency liquidity and a greater certainty on their ability to repatriate capital anytime they divest.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Long Island with reporters on Wednesday said he wanted to back up the rhetoric about renewable energy with a push toward divesting the state's pension fund from fossil fuel companies.

New York, NY — Just one day before dozens of New Yorkers will take action at the New York City pension fund meeting calling for full divestment from fossil fuels, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio added his voice, calling on New York to step into its leadership and divest from fossil fuels.