Sentences with phrase «quality marketing investment»

After a lot of consideration, and my opinion wavering, I've concluded that Facebook is a low quality marketing investment.

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Founder Zach Goldstein, an investment banker who formerly worked at JPMorgan and a private equity firm in Chicago, was frustrated with the quality of other lounge clothes on the market that he didn't feel comfortable wearing outside his house.

The reason these two markets have done well, and especially Germany, is that most investors flocked to high - quality investments this past year, says Ian Cooke, a vice-president and portfolio manager with QV Investors.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

The competitiveness of your local economy and quality of its real estate market impact your wealth and your investment portfolio.

[They] think «if these were run better, with some investment and improvement in quality and serve their markets better, then these are good businesses.»»

In the credit markets, both investment - grade and high - yield corporate bonds had negative returns for the first time in eight quarters, with down - in - quality subsectors in each unconventionally outperforming higher quality ones.

Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities, including leveraged loans, generally offer higher yields compared with investment - grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price changes.

Startup Next Toronto, powered by Techstars, will prepare eight startups for markets, accelerators and seed investment by providing high - quality mentorship through a global network of investors and founders.

In such periods, there is a flight to quality by investors that drives down the rates on presumptively risk free investments like Treasury bills.Conversely, as was the case in the post-Lehman Brothers crisis, banks become less creditworthy and liquidity in the interbank lending market dries up.

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

CEO David Trainer appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell on July 11, 2016 to discuss high quality investment opportunities in the current market

Ratings by S&P and Fitch apply to the credit quality of a portfolio and are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities of a fund, are subject to change, and do not remove market risks associated with investments in the fund.

Paul Christopher is the head global market strategist for Wells Fargo Investment Institute (WFII), a subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank N.A., which is focused on delivering the highest quality investment expertise and advice to help investors manage risk and succeed fiInvestment Institute (WFII), a subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank N.A., which is focused on delivering the highest quality investment expertise and advice to help investors manage risk and succeed fiinvestment expertise and advice to help investors manage risk and succeed financially.

The quick uptake of the Galleria investment opportunity by NexusCrowd should be a signal to anyone interested in this market that Canadian accredited investors are open to investing in quality real estate projects through a funding portal.

We believe that this is an appropriate time to rebalance investments, to diversify holdings broadly and globally across all asset groups, and to capitalize upon improved equity - market valuations to add quality holdings to portfolios.

Sarona Asset Management is an institutional - quality, independent investment firm, with the objective to deliver capital to entrepreneurs in under - served markets and help them develop their companies and their communities profitably and sustainably.

Fixed - income investments are subject to various other risks including changes in credit quality, market valuations, liquidity, prepayments, early redemption, corporate events, tax ramifications, and other factors.

«More recently, our equity investment framework has drawn us to larger market capitalizations and we have learned to «pay up» for certain higher - quality companies with market - dominating positions.»

Using private market valuations that were available at the time for Gannett's high quality TV stations and marking to market the company's investments in CareerBuilder and other internet companies, an investor could have concluded that those assets alone where worth north of $ 11 a share at the time.

Like Buffett, Lou is a value investor looking to buy quality businesses below intrinsic value; «Generally, SQ advisers believes that identifying a significant difference between the market value of a security and the intrinsic value of that security is what defines an investment opportunity.»

«If an investor is worried that the market might be heading for a decline, they may want to trim some of their winners in the stock market and invest in short - term Treasury bonds or other high - quality fixed - income investments.»

Overall, the potential return / risk tradeoff isn't terribly compelling here, but again, our investment stance will change if market conditions do, particularly if we observe some improvement in the internal quality of market action.

It would also reassure investors that they are getting proper value for their fees, support the integrity of the markets, and promote the development of more high - quality investment research to better serve advisers and investors.

«Thailand is a very attractive market due to its low entry price, high quality construction, proximity to China, and reasonable investment outlook.

Should our credit markets — already the most highly leveraged of all time — continue to suffer from deteriorating credit quality, our expectation is that FCN will continue to show its investment merits.

Fixed income investments are subject to various risks including changes in interest rates, credit quality, inflation risk, market valuations, prepayments, corporate events, tax ramifications and other factors.

The big takeaway for those seeking to buy into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.

This is a market - based estimate of the amount of fear in the bond market Bass - rated bonds are the lowest quality bonds that are considered investment - grade, rather than high - yield.

Quality and diversification work only if you hold your investments through both good and bad markets.

Conversely, when their risk outlook changes, and they become fearful, pulling money from speculative areas of the market in favor of «flight to quality» investments such as cash and high - quality fixed income.

The deterioration of quality in the investment - grade market is prevalent and a significant risk to the high - yield market.

Job growth and wage growth are huge positive factors for real estate investors searching for a quality investment market.

When high - quality companies with unusually long runways for above - average growth — like Alphabet, Amazon, MasterCard, Monsanto, and Visa — were selling for an unusually small premium relative to the rest of the market, we made significant investments in them.

Although market declines can't be prevented, buying quality investments and diversifying your portfolio can help you experience less volatility and show more consistent performance over time.

«We're seeking to expand transparent and competitive global energy markets, cooperating on high - quality infrastructure investment in the United States and in the region - we've spent a lot of time talking about infrastructure, especially urban infrastructure,» Turnbull told reporters.

Alignvest is the parent company of three investment platforms: Alignvest Capital Management Inc., for its public market strategies, Alignvest Private Capital, for its direct private investments, and Alignvest Investment Management Corporation, which provides institutional quality, total portfolio management capabilities to assinvestment platforms: Alignvest Capital Management Inc., for its public market strategies, Alignvest Private Capital, for its direct private investments, and Alignvest Investment Management Corporation, which provides institutional quality, total portfolio management capabilities to assInvestment Management Corporation, which provides institutional quality, total portfolio management capabilities to asset owners.

Ratings by S&P, Moody's, and Fitch apply to the credit quality of a portfolio and are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities of a fund, are subject to change, and do not remove market risks associated with investments in the fund.

Research by Agcapita Partners, a Canadian agriculture private equity firm, shows that one of the beneficial investment qualities of farmland in North America is that is has a very low (slightly negative = -0.13) correlation to stock market returns.

«As inflationary pressures develop in coming months, emerging market hedge funds represent an ideal investment vehicle to access such opportunities with these likely to attract high quality, long - term institutional investors.»

All money market funds comply with industry - standard regulatory requirements regarding the quality, maturity, liquidity, and diversification of the fund's investments.

Based on the new technology and further investments in production, feeder colouration and decoration, we envisage a more specialised, high quality production to support small volume production in the luxury product market.

To create the difference between just another good - quality wine industry and a highly innovative industry that can cut a swathe in the global market — and even export its innovations and expertise to France — requires a lot of investment in research and development, in training and experience, and in marketing and production.

«We expect in the current market that quality peri-urban assets such as these with rezoning potential and multiples titles will remain popular, particularly investment assets with reliable tenants that generate 7 to 8 per cent yields to investors,» Mr Forrest said.

«We have always prided ourselves on delivering reliable, high quality, flexible packaging solutions for leading retailers and brands and this investment will secure our future as a leading innovator in the flexible packaging markets in the UK, Europe and North Africa, where we primarily operate.»

Drawing on his work as an economist at the Food & Agriculture Organization's Investment Center Division, Andriy will cite a number of different examples to demonstrate how market intelligence plays a central role in adding value through exports, and how quality control and efficiency along the value chain are critical for those competing in the international market.

Hersha Hospitality Trust (HT) is a self - advised real estate investment trust in the hospitality space, which owns and operates high quality upscale hotels in urban gateway markets.

About Hersha Hospitality Trust Hersha Hospitality Trust (HT) is a self - advised real estate investment trust in the hospitality sector, which owns and operates high quality upscale hotels in urban gateway markets.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

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