Sentences with phrase «small number of sectors»

And it has been focused on a relatively small number of sectors, mainly «general environment protection» and «energy».

Moreover, the stocks may be concentrated in a small number of sectors.

Not exact matches

The number of technologists actually in the tech sector, as narrowly defined, was found to be still fairly small: 58,000.

While the real estate sector accounts for only a small percentage of the total number of listings on TSX and TSXV, it has been particularly active amidst the ongoing uncertainties of the global economy.

The Small - Cap and SMid - Cap Equity strategies are concentrated strategies that are not managed to a benchmark, so there are material differences in characteristics, such as the number of holdings and sector and industry weightings.

The Ellis Martin Report is a radio news magazine broadcasted on 100 terrestrial stations in the United States and worldwide via the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.featuring potentially undervalued small - cap or microcap companies from a variety of industry sectors trading on a number of North American and foreign exchanges.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

Only a very small number of companies have set long - term (2030 or later) targets which can be considered to be in line with a sectoral 2 °C pathway.282 An analysis of 70 of the world's largest publicly listed corporate emitters, across the aluminium, cement, chemicals and electric utilities sectors, found that 21 had targets up to 2020 which could be considered consistent with a 2 °C sectoral pathway, but only 7 had targets to 2030 or later.283 Twenty others had non-2 °C or «irrelevant» targets, and the rest had none at all.

According to an Oxfam statement, «While we can't corroborate the information from Chad at the moment, it highlights again unacceptable behavior by a small number of people and the need for a sector - wide approach to tackle the problem.»

Efforts to recruit more small food and beverage retailers in the hospitality and convenience sectors were also bearing fruit, with customers numbers in August as high as those in the peak of summer.

See Appendix A. 1 for more information * There are a number of broad Australian comparative disadvantages such as high labour costs, a dispersed and geographically isolated market and small population which impact the MTP sector.

Finally, growing numbers of small farmers are in transition to the internationally recognized certified organic sector, with a view to tap lucrative export markets.

Speaking at the second edition of the National Policy Summit (NPS) under the aegis of the Trade and Industry Ministry under the theme, «The Industrial Transformation of Ghana,» in Accra yesterday, he noted that during the period, «a significant number of small, medium and large scale operators were all brought to their knees as a result of four years of «dumsor» (intermittent power supply), induced by the mismanagement of the energy sector.»

Including the comparatively small amount spent by the private sector, the total amount spent on research amounts to roughly 0.03 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product — a number three times smaller than the amount spent by Japan and far behind other nations as well.

(This finding might be explained by the relatively small number of women who work in this sector compared with men.)

Among the challenges that set education apart from most sectors is the presence of a relatively small number of employees compared with a large number of non-employees, most of whom are children.

The payments sector has changed hugely within the last 10 years, with the introduction of Faster Payments, which processes internet and phone banking payments within seconds, contactless cards and even being able to pay friends, family and small businesses using just their mobile number through Paym — the mobile payment service offered by 17 banks and building societies.

If policymakers limit ESA eligibility to a small number of students scattered around the state, they will help those students, but they will do little to encourage existing education providers to expand or new and innovative providers to enter the sector.

It's impossible to predict how a new market would develop, but the experience of other sectors suggest that a relatively small number of nationally - trusted certifiers would emerge over time while leaving room for numerous regional or niche certifiers.

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the natio...

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy agendas around charters.

The AAP and Nielsen PubTrack, on the other hand, provide aggregate absolute numbers... but for only one and a half of those sectors (Big 5 + a subset of Small / Medium Publisher).

M&A in the small cap sector was increasing in terms of price and number of transactions:

While I am always suspicious of new products that claim to improve on cap - weighting (most have more to do with marketing than sound investment principles), I think equal weighting may well be a superior way to invest in a sector with a small number of companies.

The thesis of the paper was that there were a large number of undervalued companies with strong fundamentals and solid growth prospects in the small cap sector (defined as stocks with a market capitalization between $ 50M and $ 250M) lacking a competitive auction for their shares.

He worries some ETFs hold a relatively small number of companies in just a single sector.

Non-diversified investing may be focused in a smaller number of issues or one sector of the market that may make the value of the investment more susceptible to certain risks than diversified investing.

If your account is heavily invested in a small number of securities or sectors, it may not qualify for portfolio margin.

I would avoid Canadian small cap funds for now, because of the high number of junior oil, gas and mining firms in this sector.

Because the S&P 500 telecommunications services sector consists of only six companies — a number too small to form a separate fund — XLK also includes those telephone companies.

The number of title IV, HEA - eligible institutions that are small entities would be limited because of the revenues involved in the sector that would be affected by the regulations and the concentration of ownership of institutions by private owners or public systems.

There are a number of reasons why small cap stocks consistently outperform competing sectors.

The strategy works particularly well in sector ETFs that often hold only a small number of stocks.

The fund could have been substituted, with better return / risk characteristics, by a portfolio of a small number of the technology sector and small / mid-cap ETFs.

Same story as with FPA and Aston: in response to increasingly irrational activity in small cap investing (e.g., the numbers of firms being acquired at record high earnings levels), Intrepid is concentrated in a handful of undervalued sectors and cash.

The beta for Destiny 2 will most likely include the European Deadzone open world, a small number of missions and a Strike, and some additional open world events such as Lost Sectors.

The game is divided into various sectors, each containing a number of small stages or chambers.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

The tapes captured the head of the climate sector admitting they'd contacted Pinguelli to help with the section on hydroelectric dams, because they knew he'd give them a small number for reservoir emissions.

Implementation of favorable government regulations such as the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act and Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs in the U.S. and growing number of funding programs pertaining to the renewable energy sector in developed countries such as Italy and Canada are some of the factors which are expected to present future growth opportunities.

These HFCs are currently used in a number of industry sectors, including various refrigeration applications from smaller equipment like household refrigerators and vending machines, to chillers and other large systems used in supermarkets, cold food storage warehouses, and food processing, as well as fire suppression systems.

The pool of competent experts in financial sector litigation is surprisingly small and law firms looking for expert witnesses or advisers face a number of challenges:

However the pilot only provided a small number of recommendations on health and social care and did not produce sufficient evidence to assess health and social care responsiveness to recommendations, nor of the wider implications for the health and social care sectors, meaning that the reform's potential has hitherto been limited.

We are one of only a small number of firms nationally recognised by the leading legal directories for the work we do in the education sector.

Not for them the conservatism of a monochromatic career in a single industry sector or one spent with a small number of employers, as has happily been the case for me to date.

A revamped strategy that focuses on a smaller number of key sectors — technology, finance, and energy and natural resources — has seen its revenue grow 34 % to # 165m.

Given the small size of most teams within the wealth management sector, there are a small number of candidates in the market who have specific experience in wealth regulatory advice, client transaction structuring and general commercial advisory.

Many law firms now recognise that focus upon a small number of carefully selected industry sectors offer a viable and potentially attractive way of growing market share.

This Census Bureau survey contains data on the number and proportion of establishments, by Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC code), that have revenues of less than $ 5 million, which meets the Small Business Administration's definition of a small business in the health care seSmall Business Administration's definition of a small business in the health care sesmall business in the health care sector.

The pool of competent experts in financial sector litigation is surprisingly small and law firms looking for expert witnesses or advisers face a number of challenges: • Identifying the right expert in a specialised discipline • Developing a short list of suitable candidates on a discreet basis • Avoiding individual experts «shoe - horning» themselves into roles for which they are not properly equipped • Assessing individuals» strengths and weaknesses and prior track records Our experience - as experts ourselves and from working with our associates over an extended period - normally enables us to propose one or more candidates whom we consider the best equipped to address specific issues on which expert evidence is required.