Sentences with phrase «than equity as»

These funds gradually shift the allocation of retirement portfolios into more bonds than equity as an investor age.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Any sign the central bank will raise interest rates faster than expected is viewed as negative for equities since hikes will theoretically lessen the appeal of stocks.

«I'm not going to be dismissive of the risks, but I think markets have priced them in and if anything as we look at the fundamentals of stock markets around the world, the fundamentals of European equities right now are I think significantly better than they are for the United States,» said the managing partner of Triogem Asset Management and global investing expert on CNBC's «Fast Money.»

The dollar, measured against a basket of currencies, has now given up more than half of the gains it notched up this month when investors rushed into the greenback as equity markets suffered a violent sell - off.

As a result, he says, the client is often willing to offer more in equity than the equivalent in cash «because the [designer's] motivation and the quality of the work could be better.»

Now, India's stock exchanges are set to get a boost from Indian households, which are increasingly turning to equities as a place to park their more than $ 450 billion in savings.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

Portfolio politics — Investing - Almost three times as many Republicans plan to invest more in equities (28 percent) than Democrats (10 percent).

As coverage of European and American financial woes have the masses running from equities, he says, «long - term investors who are billionaires tell me they are having an easier time today than ever before in their lifetimes because nobody is a long - term investor anymore.»

As a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bondAs a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bondas equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bonds.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

Perth - based Swan Gold Mining has completed a one - for - 10 share consolidation as part of a restructuring of the company that it proposes including a capital raising of up to $ 20 million and debt to equity conversion of more than $ 29 million.

As a result, more entrepreneurs and businesses have access to outside capital than ever before and for the first time, investors can efficiently build diversified portfolios of private equity and debt investments.

With new SEC rules allowing for crowdfunded companies to repay contributions with equity (as opposed to just goods and services), seeking funds through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or any of the many other crowdfunding sites is an even more appealing option than it used to be.

And whenever possible, structure the transaction as a loan rather than equity, so valuation does not become an issue.

Moreover, no individual owner of an 8 (a) firm, even if he or she qualifies as disadvantaged, may hold an equity ownership interest of more than 10 percent in another firm involved in the 8 (a) program.

For instance, under recent scrutiny are negotiable certificates of deposits (NCD), a kind of short - term bond, and niche products like perpetual notes, a long - term debt instrument that can be listed as equity rather than debt on balance sheets.

In the U.S., he said, housing will «always remain as a primary playbook for stimulating the U.S. economy» and «homeowners will continue to believe that increased home equity is a faster highway to creating wealth than accumulating wealth by working for a living.»

However, as ICI / EBRI reported, more than 65 percent of employees between 20 and 30 years of age had invested over 80 percent of their retirement account balance in equities.

As of Sept. 22, 77 companies in China had conducted debt - for - equity swaps worth more than 1.3 trillion yuan ($ 196.48 billion), Reuters reported.

Once business owners have invested a few months of sweat equity for no pay, it makes sense to structure subsequent cash infusions as debt rather than equity.

According to Bloomberg data, U.S. large cap equities, as represented by the S&P 500, trade at roughly 17.5 x trailing earnings and more than 25x cyclically - adjusted earnings.

There have been market rumors that the round would be structured as convertible debt rather than preferred equity, although those rumors also were married to a $ 25 billion valuation.

«The equity dollar buys less than it did five years ago,» says Ross, who now works on twice as many recapitalizations as he did back then.

Blackstone had more than $ 20 billion in available capital to invest in private equity as of the end of March.

Sales pitches are broadly similar: farmland is presented as performing equally well or better than equities and other asset classes, with less volatility.

On Monday, investors rushed into Treasuries as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average nosedived more than 4 percent - reversing a move on Friday when a spike in bond yields, which move inversely to prices, triggered an equity rout.

He estimates that private equity firms have made more than $ 2 billion dollars in transaction fees over the last 10 years without being properly registered as broker dealers.

«The extent and speed of the rally in gold prices is somewhat surprising as there are few pressing reasons to be bullish, indeed there are more headwinds than tailwinds,» ScotiaMocatta said in a monthly note, citing rising U.S. equity markets as well as higher U.S. interest rates.

Certainly, it offers an attractive level for longer - term investors such as pension and insurance funds to lock in a relatively decent yield, and will tempt some portfolio managers to buy bonds rather than equities.

We chose the NYSE and NASDAQ as exchanges for analysis because they are the world's two largest stock exchanges; they together experience over 60 % of daily U.S. equity trade volume; and experience more than two thirds of all mini flash crashes [16].

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

«For Treasuries, the share of transactions by primary dealers has dwindled by more than half to 4 percent since the end of 2008,» with electronic traders like Citadel expanding their role as dealers, and the complaints about the Treasury market sound a lot like the complaints in the equity markets about human market makers being replaced by algorithmic traders.

The most straightforward way to do the deal and what most people do is to issue the first investor 4 times more shares than the ultimate equity investor to adjust for the 4x discount in price (ie if I give you 4x the shares it's the same as though you paid 25 % of the price for the shares).

We generally do not enter into severance arrangements with our named executive officers, and none of the equity awards granted to the named executive officers under Apple's equity incentive plans provide for acceleration in connection with a change in control or a termination of employment, other than as noted below or in connection with death or disability.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

This type of equity investor differs from angel investors and other equity investors as the firms are primarily interested in high - value opportunities (think millions of dollars rather than thousands or tens of thousands of dollars).

European equities, as represented by the S&P Europe 350 Index, are now trading at less than 12x forward earnings and 1.3 x book value.

As part of a long - term strategy, EM equity funds offer investors the potential for greater returns than they might get if they invest exclusively in developed markets.

Business credit has been falling, but this has been more than offset by increases in non-intermediated sources of funding, such as equity raisings and corporate bond issuance.

One possible source of the equity premium (meaning shares are more expensive to issue than bonds) is a central bank as lender of last resort - even in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy, etc..

U.S. Equity Funds enjoyed a record - breaking surge of fresh money during the second week of March, as investors shrugged off an impending U.S. rate hike and the internal struggles of Trump's administration and chased a rally that saw the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average Index climb more than 400 points in a day.

Maybe the equity isn't growing exactly at the same rate as revenue growth, but it's certainly growing faster than 15 % a year.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

My point was and is that the equity risk premium is bundled up closely with the nature of the security itself (i.e., being a publicly traded, relatively liquid investment asset called an equity, that has a very specific bundle of rights and risks attached to it), which has very different characteristics than the many other financial assets available in the economy (many of which have bundles of risk that are perceived as «riskier», and many of which are perceived as «less risky»).

It has raised more than $ 4 billion in outside equity and debt financing; its investors include a Who's Who of Silicon Valley venture - capital firms (Greylock, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz) and a number of high - profile individuals, such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

My rule of thumb: if there are less than a total of five founders / investors, I don't even think about equity as compensation and neither should you.

Bond funds took in more than twice the amount of investor money as equity funds did in 2017, despite being outperformed by equities six to one.

As of December 31, 2014, none of our non-employee directors held any outstanding equity awards to purchase shares of our common stock, other than Messrs. McKelvey and Viniar and Dr. Summers as described beloAs of December 31, 2014, none of our non-employee directors held any outstanding equity awards to purchase shares of our common stock, other than Messrs. McKelvey and Viniar and Dr. Summers as described beloas described below.