Sentences with phrase «on equity issues»

For example, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) recently hosted a webinar on equity issues and SEL.

Besides providing learning activities that parents can do with their children, Project EQUALS provides information on equity issues in mathematics education, builds awareness of the importance of problem - solving skills and the ability to talk about mathematics, and helps parents develop a positive attitude toward their role in their children's mathematical education.

For example, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) recently hosted a webinar on equity issues and SEL.

The long - awaited opinion, issued Aug. 25 by Judge Steven L. Lefelt, is the first ruling on the equity issues raised by Abbott v. Burke, the lawsuit filed in 1981 on behalf of 20 children attending schools in Camden, East Orange, Irvington, and Jersey City.

She commended the Equity Commission for getting the truth out about inequality and worsening poverty, which Moore said was a crucial first step in «moving the needle» on equity issues.

Not exact matches

«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a failure.

However, sustained engagement on issues of equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»), and setting goals — much like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion - dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

Three major issues have weighed on gold equities since 2009.

Equity analysts charged with evaluating publicly traded companies can fall victim to herd mentality, and by slapping a «sell» rating on a company or issuing a critical report, an analyst risks getting cut off by management.

In honor of Equal Pay Day 2018, Fortune sat down with the activist investor to talk about how — and why — she engages with companies on the issue of pay equity.

While the company will bring in another $ 7 million through warrants on the shares that are now getting exercised, Zenyatta's president says it's unlikely they'll issue more equity anytime soon.

«Clarity on the Cambridge issue and FB's willingness to self - regulate are likely near - term catalysts that may reduce investor fears, stabilize the stock, and position it for a recovery into Q1 results,» Shawn Quigg, an equity derivatives strategist at JPMorgan, wrote in a client note.

The issue is that venture capitalists may balk at investing in companies that have hundreds of small and unsophisticated backers amassed from the «crowd round,» so you may want to consider this consequence before deciding to post on an equity portal.

An unlimited policy is also hard on managers, she says, because when one employee takes more time than another, issues of equity or fairness crop up.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

«Please be aware that TMX equity markets are experiencing issues with trading, all users are equally impacted and are unable to connect to our Exchanges,» the company said on its official Twitter account.

But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

The form of investment is dependent on the company's relative maturity with seed stage investments typically structured as convertible notes while early stage companies issue preferred equity in exchange for investor funds.

As a partner in Big 4 focused on the transaction world, Elise advised Boards and senior management on complex issues for Global Corporations as well as Private Equity and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

In that regard, we tried to gain some perspective on this issue by looking at the behaviour of the foreign exchange market around the time of the flash crash in equities in May 2010 and the sharp movements in the yen just prior to the coordinated intervention in March this year.

At the same time, what is counted as cash on the sidelines, whether in money market funds, or as tiny balances in equity funds, is nothing but a mountain of short - term debt securities, mostly Treasury bills, that have been issued and must be held by somebody until they are retired.

It doesn't matter if you are a fixed income investor considering purchasing bonds issued by a company, an equity investor considering buying stock in a firm, a landlord contemplating leasing a property to an enterprise, a bank officer making a recommendation on a potential loan, or a vendor thinking about extending credit to a new customer, knowing how to calculate it in a few seconds can give you a powerful insight into the health of company.

«The issue is how to best distribute the equity and make employees hold on to it.»

Written by NCEO founder Corey Rosen, this issue brief discusses as of mid-2016 the extent and growth of employee ownership; survey data on ESOPs and corporate governance as well as ESOPs and executive compensation; research on the effect of ESOPs on corporate performance; the 2012 shared capitalism study of Great Place to Work applicants; data on employee ownership and employee financial well - being; the NCEO's analysis of data on ESOPs and default rates; trends in broad - based equity compensation plans; equity compensation and corporate performance; the impact of ESOPs and other broad - based plans on unemployment; legislative and regulatory issues for employee ownership; and international developments in broad - based plans.

As noted, for ESOPs in closely held companies this is not an issue since, typically, the entire company is being sold to the employees, and managers and the exiting owner are not focused on the dilution of the majority shareholder since that shareholder desires to cash out its majority equity.

They use a long - run sentiment index derived from principal component analysis of six sentiment measures: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium; the closed - end fund discount; the number of and first - day returns on Initial Public Offerings; and, the equity share in new issues.

Hess (NYSE: HES) Rating Upped In an analyst note issued to clients and investors on Monday morning, equity research analysts at Credit Suisse's research division upgraded Hess (NYSE: HES)'s stock from «Underperform»...

In the July 2010 version of their paper entitled «The Impact of Investor Sentiment on the German Stock Market», Philipp Finter, Alexandra Niessen - Ruenzi and Stefan Ruenzi test the predictive power of a composite sentiment measure combining consumer confidence, net equity mutual funds flow, put - call ratio, aggregate trading volume, initial public offering (IPO) returns, number of IPOs and aggregate equity - to - debt ratio of new issues.

Now new supply is coming through in most markets, including Multi-Family residential, and credit to Equity Residential for highlighting the issue, while the mall sector continues to face the internet threat and on - going over-capacity.

Tesla has issued secondary equity on several occasions, the last being for $ 1.7 bln in proceeds ($ 1.4 bln + Greenshoe exercise) at $ 215 in May 2016.

Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock.

Julian Hamud joined Glass Lewis in 2013 and currently manages the specialized research team analyzing North American compensation issues, including proposals relating to Say - on - Pay and equity plans.

INVEST CANADA ’18 provides a finger on the pulse on all that impacts Canada's private equity and venture capital industry — from macro-economic issues, to in - depth discussions relevant to specific industries and sectors.

A rise in interest rates — in part related to tax cuts which will stimulate the economy and require the government to issue more debt — caused many investors to revalue their stock holdings (equities are often valued in part based on their expected returns versus a risk - free Treasury).

High Risk — Income (H / INC) Medium to higher risk equities of companies that are structured with a focus on providing a meaningful dividend but may face less predictable earnings (or losses), more leveraged balance sheets, rapidly changing market dynamics, financial and competitive issues, higher price volatility (beta), and potential risk of principal.

The Index measures the performance of a selected group of equity securities issued by companies that have provided relatively high dividend yields on a consistent basis over time.

If equities were certain to do that then equity managers would be offering you a premium to take your money instead of you having to pay a management fee — see my last post on this issue.

The MSCI EAFE Index is made up of approximately 1,045 equity securities issued by companies located in 19 countries and listed on the stock exchanges of Europe, Australia, and the Far East.

There are some non-financial issues with being in equities in late retirement — although there's a case to be made that staying on top of this helps retain intellectual facilities a bit if we look at Warren Buffet and his dreadful diet, looking at the state some people get into as they get older I'm not sure they should be licensed to drive an equity portfolio unless they can sit on their hands and let that nice Mr Vanguard sort out the rebalancing shenanigans...

Shareholder resolutions have seen rising support on key issues ranging from governance practices to climate change to pay equity, and the recent expansion of proxy access provides long - term investors with an opportunity to shape the board itself.

11/15/2017 U.S. equities struggled on Wednesday, with declining shares outnumbering advancing issues from bell to bell.

On the flip side, that universe could include a company that has issued a lot of stock and has inflated its book value of equity.

The starting point for becoming more sophisticated on financial issues is to learn the difference between debt and equity and what types of funding are available for different types of businesses.

He has been wrong on many of the issues on which he has opined, not least his speech on home bias and his pleadings for U.S. homeowners to refinance their mortgages and use home equity as a piggy bank.

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on COST shares.

Global equity markets went on a rollercoaster ride in October, although given the cauldron of global issues that were brewing for some time and the month's history of big moves, it shouldn't be all that shocking many investors got spooked.

Adam Parker, Morgan Stanley chief US equity strategist, discusses the 2016 outlook, given more muted forecasts for economic growth, and three key investment issues that clients are focused on.

Our investment management practice advises on investment funds, tax law and regulatory issues in the context of structuring various kinds of collective capital assets investing in private equity, real estate, renewable energy, leasing agreements and other asset classes.

Our suite of over 900 equity and fixed income ESG Indexes designed to represent the performance of some of the most prevalent ESG strategies can be used to help institutional investors more effectively benchmark ESG investment performance, issue index - based investment products, as well as manage, measure and report on ESG mandates.