«We continue to talk to long -
term investors about being patient holders (of gold).»
Not exact matches
We have a trading mentality that should not affect long -
term investors, but ETF
investors have earned a 5 percent return in the last 12 years and investing in traditional index funds has returned
about 8 percent.
In a conversation with
Term Sheet, Barna talks
about her transition from operator to
investor, her biggest mistakes as a founder, and whether she plans to start another company.
Potential
investors should call those clients and ask them what they like
about Idea Crossing, and how far the relationship could grow in
terms of dollars.
It's all
about building the trust required to persuade an
investor to enter into a long -
term relationship with your company.
Investors often ask
about advisors» investment philosophies but the
term means different things to different people.
As for Schlumberger,
investors appear jittery
about the stock, in part because the world's supplier of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near -
term driver for sales ---- than competitors.
There was the founder who had a
term sheet from an American
investor canceled after the
investor saw something on the Internet
about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.
Investors are beginning to feel slightly more optimistic
about the trajectory of a Trump presidency — at least in the medium
term.
The committee was set up by the major institutional
investors to salvage
about $ 32 billion invested in a type of short -
term note, commonly called asset - backed commercial paper, that couldn't be redeemed.
In most deals with convertible notes or value - added co-investors who «want into the round» the negotiation re-opens after the
term sheet and this is a source of frustration at a point where the founder and the lead
investor should be feeling great
about each other.
That many
investors flatly don't care
about the long
term is, of course, another matter.
Fortunately, says Winograd, the company had a hedge — other potential
investors had not been told
about the deal, so NuLabel was able to nail down an even better
term sheet a few months later.
By the time Bhakta went to raise funds from
investors, he says he was transparent
about his intentions to hold on to the company for the long
term.
While my other investments were doing well, I couldn't tell a story
about being a long -
term investor who sits on boards eight years until an IPO.
«We believe the number may fuel
investor concerns
about the near and long -
term wearable opportunity,» he said in his first note after the earnings report was released.
For bond
investors with a short -
term investment horizon, it is absolutely critical to think
about rising interest rates.
You can gauge the interest in responsible investing simply from the increase in shareholder proposals being filed
about ESG issues and the exponential growth in the number of questions being asked by institutional
investors, researchers and clients - and as a CEO, I have to make trade offs that may not be in the best short
term profit interest of the Bank but are viewed in our best long
term interest.
In technical regulatory
terms, this means Facebook is known as what's called a «controlled company» that is exempt from certain standard Securities and Exchange Commission
investor protections in exchange for making fulsome disclosures
about the fact that if you buy Facebook stock, you are buying into a controlled enterprise.
I realize that many
investors feel they always have to be on the «right side» of the market, and imagine that short
term trends give a clue
about that.
So if
investors expect short -
term rates to be zero for another 4 years, it would be reasonable for stocks and bonds to be
about 16 % higher than historical valuation norms.
Over the short -
term, unfortunately, there is no assurance that
investors or analysts will quickly recognize that this market is trading on the basis of false premises
about earnings and valuation (though my impression is that those who wake up based on reasoned argument and evidence will be better off than those who wake up based on investment losses).
The problem, at least for short -
term investors, was guidance that unit revenues would fall 3 - 4 % while costs were increasing
about 1 %.
Investors were positive
about the new venture, but said the platform may not be enough to drive long -
term sales growth for Kraft Heinz, which has a market value of
about $ 82.6 billion.
If you are a long
term investor you really shouldn't have anything to worry
about.
For everything
investors might say
about the importance of focusing on the long
term, however, the Tim Hortons board of directors has a fiduciary duty to shareholders, and when the company was approached with an offer from Burger King, it was obliged to consider it.
We leave «buy signals» and attempts to forecast short -
term market direction to other
investors, preferring to align our investment positions with the prevailing evidence
about the Market Climate.
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From record - breaking stock market returns to falling unemployment, the U.S. has no shortage of positive economic indicators, and the majority of
investors say they feel confident
about achieving both their short - and long -
term goals, according to the latest «Morgan Stanley
Investor Pulse Poll,» which surveyed more than 1,200
investors age 25 to 75 with over $ 100,000 in assets.
Here's a piece I wrote recently for Bloomberg talking
about both short - and long -
term volatility in the markets and how
investors can think
about its meaning.
Policy makers who seek quick fixes and could care less
about long -
term consequences undoubtedly encourage
investors to embrace the same value system.
While the market increases by
about an average of 4.5 % annually in REAL
terms,
investors give away the vast majority of those returns.
The worst situation is when
investors both reduce estimates
about the future path of earnings, and increase the long -
term return that they demand from stocks.
While marketing, sales, and customer acquisition are usually the «sexy» topics that
investors and boards of directors want to hear
about, customer retention is the most important component of long -
term stability and sustainability.
That could mean
investors are moving money out of stocks and into bonds in anticipation of disappointing earnings; or that foreigners who are worried
about their own economies are looking for a safer haven in the U.S.; or that expectations of future inflation have declined, allowing long -
term interest rates to come down a little.
The CEO began his answer by complaining
about leaks from inside the company, then pivoted to
investors whom he considered wrongly focused on short -
term results.
The problem was that
investors stopped thinking
about stocks as a claim on a very, very long -
term stream of discounted cash flows.
It's worth noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is
about half of the U.S. market in
terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases / disorders, but it's our intuition these are best left to 100 % focused HC
investors).
In short,
investors have gained
about a 5 % annualized excess return over the long
term by investing in stocks rather than bills or bonds.
Investor concerns
about the trends were fueled this month when WPP Plc, the largest ad group, lowered its long -
term profit outlook, triggering sell - offs for peers including Publicis, Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group of Cos..
Yet nothing
about the ETF's response to the most recent downturn raises long -
term questions
about its viability as a suitable dividend - paying investment for most
investors.
Long -
term investors who intend to buy and hold a stock should focus on longer -
term beta to gain a better understanding of volatility, whereas short -
term holders might not be concerned
about the volatility experienced by a stock five to 10 years in the past.
For that reason, we have to join the Iron Law of Valuation with what I call the Iron Law of Speculation: the near -
term outcome of speculative, overvalued markets is conditional on
investor preferences toward risk - seeking or risk - aversion, and those preferences can be largely inferred from observable market internals and credit spreads (when
investors are inclined to speculate, they tend to be indiscriminate
about it).
Yes, we're long -
term investors, and no, we shouldn't worry too much
about meeting Wall Street expectations in any given quarter.
We analyze the investment rationale for the short -
term investors who have an investment horizon of less than a year and for the medium -
term investors, who have an investment horizon of
about 1 - 2 years.
The main issue for good, established companies here is not the risk to the long -
term stream of cash flows, but to what extent the uncertainty
about the coming year or two of earnings will frighten
investors to sell at depressed prices (thereby pricing stocks to deliver even higher long -
term returns).
If we don't have another «Sell in May», then toward the end of this summer,
investors may want to assess a longer -
term outlook, and a logical step may be to think
about $ 120 earnings and an 18 P / E.
Only the total market produces the historic long -
term returns that
investors aim for (
about 9 percent since 1929, with dividends reinvested;
about 10 percent since 1990).
Fortunately, it's not impossible — or even all that difficult, really — to estimate the fair value of just
about any dividend growth stock out there, putting an
investor in the «driver's seat» when it comes to making an intelligent investment decision for the long
term.
Investors should not draw any conclusions
about the fund's investment performance from the amount of the fund's distributions or from the
terms of the fund's managed distribution plan.