With the understanding that companies operate to meet demand, we believe that, all else being equal, a sustainability investing strategy should generally reward companies for acting in more environmentally responsible
ways than their industry counterparts.
Not exact matches
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein last week highlighted the client - coverage push in his annual investor letter, noting that it had resulted in more
than 75 new mandates across a variety of
industry groups and that the firm was 30 % of the
way toward reaching its goal of covering 1,000 new clients.
«I think we're substantially inoculated from the other issues that are happening in the
industry... Just objectively, we're much more of a media company in that
way than pure tech.
While the 5G technology is supposed to provide a cheaper
way to connect homes
than older, wired broadband networks, the
industry still remembers Google's claims that its high - speed Fiber service would undercut cable, which did not prove to be the case.
They get rewarded in many other
ways than pure financial returns — including creating stronger suppliers, putting control levers in their
industry, testing products, de-risking innovation, and engineering less expensive acquisitions.
We already had some signs in the middle of 2016 that it was going to be a rough year for Apple: In the second and third quarters of the year, shipments of Apple's Macs were declining
way faster
than industry average, as people waited impatiently for the company to release a new MacBook Pro.
Though much of the success of craft breweries (which are technically defined as those that make less
than 6 million barrels per year) and microbreweries (which make less
than 15,000 barrels) can be credited to shifts in public taste, those in the
industry say they've learned a few truths along the
way that have aided in their success.
Put another
way: That's more
than twice the impact of the wine
industry and slightly higher
than the overall economic impact of the U.S. video game
industry.
The results go a long
way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music
industry than their previous distribution systems.
They had job sharing; rather
than having German
industry just slash and burn and cut all their workers the
way that happened in the United States, what (the German government) did was have those workers work part - time and subsidize their wages.
Understanding how women adopt and utilize technology are two of the most important insights the tech
industry can glean — and there's no better
way to do that
than to have women build and lead product development.
The no - protection pledge was often violated, increasingly in harder - to - detect
ways such as tax breaks for home
industries rather
than obvious import taxes.
The economy of Alaska can't be compared to that of any other state in the U.S., however, as more
than four out of five revenue dollars come by
way of the energy
industry.
«Since first pioneering the vacation exchange concept more
than 40 years ago, RCI has continually found new
ways to evolve and grow its own business while also propelling the exchange
industry further,» said Gordon Gurnik, president of RCI, in a statement.
This may seem a little easier to do in a game that tracks at - bats and hits and runs
than in your
industry, but every business needs to develop effective and relatively frictionless
ways to keep score for everyone's benefit and also to establish and implement these criteria at every level and for everyone in the business.
One key
way to establish trust and credibility in your
industry is to give the appearance that your company is much larger
than it is.
He's clearly confident, despite the hesitations and the endless «um «s and the strange cough - laugh he uses as a kind of diffident pause, but there's also something breathlessly unsophisticated about the
way he speaks — in some
ways he's more like a teenager who's been asked to stand up and speak at a family dinner
than like a titan of
industry.
«While we are pleased the
industry continues growing at faster rates
than other sectors of the economy, we could be growing much faster, creating more new jobs and businesses, if Washington addressed the tax, spending and regulatory uncertainty plaguing the small business community in a meaningful
way,» said IFA President & CEO Steve Caldeira.
While the mass migration to the paywall model may be a seismic shift for the news consumers, for the news
industry it's less an end
than it is a beginning — the start of a mad hustle to find revenue from readers in as many
ways and as many forms as possible.
The Government must encourage collaboration among Canadian
industry companies on a much larger scale
than at present, where most of the incentives were focused on collaboration between Government labs and
industry and on
ways to get more academic institutions to license their inventions to
industry.
But by 2015, the Google car project had come a long
way: Google's vehicles had logged more
than one million autonomous miles; car companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla Inc. announced their own plans to develop autonomous systems; and analysts predicted the technology would transform the auto
industry.
As the company's CTO for 5 years, he took the company from the drawing board to having launched more satellites into space
than any other company in history, completely transforming the space
industry along the
way.
One of the best
ways to build your audience and grow your reach is to engage with
industry influencers and celebrities — but that's obviously a lot easier said
than done.
It's
way,
way more
than the roughly 3.5 million Americans that work in the Auto
industry, which includes auto parts manufacturers and auto dealers.
The most valuable employees understand more
than just their jobs; they understand the
industries in which their companies operate, the
way in which their companies functions in big - picture terms and the
way in which their individual job roles contribute to the success of their firms.
This is a much quicker
way to begin researching specific loan estimates
than speaking with a loan officer, and it equips you with better information prior to starting a conversation with an
industry professional.
I can think of no better
way to start 2014
than with a look at 2014 pet
industry trends.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold
industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a
way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business»
than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.
That yield, by the
way, is much higher
than the
industry average and the broader market.
The U.S. argues most Canadian wood is harvested from Crown lands and is sold for less
than market prices as a
way to subsidize the
industry and make Canadian wood more attractive compared to American domestic products — a charge Canada denies.
There are many factors to be considered when discussing job creation in a new emerging
industry, and there's no better
way to get a clear idea of what's going on
than to cooperate with other individuals who share a similar vision with you.
An
industry in which leaders and laggards alike used to reap more
than half of their earnings in flows has given
way to feverish automation and heightened efficiency.
Over the past five years, Prospa has disrupted a previously traditional
industry by transforming the
way small business owners experience finance, injecting more
than $ 400m into the Australian small business economy through over 12,000 loans to small business owners.
As you can imagine, getting your golf buddy to link to you and you, in turn, linking back isn't as useful to the search engine users
than an
industry resource site linking to your site, because it is relevant and useful for that link to be only one
way.
They tend to offer better terms
than a purely financial investor and bring much more to the table by
way of advice, referrals and other
industry specific insights.
When growing a business, there's no better
way to learn
than to settle in with the advice and insight from some of the
industry's most influential thinkers.
What's important in terms of gauging investment confidence is that the maturing Asia - Pacific
industry has locked in on the virtuous capital cycle: Limited partners (LPs) have been cash - positive in the region over the past few years, meaning GPs continue to find
ways to return more capital to investors
than they are drawing down for new investments.
Cohn believes that the tariffs could result in trade wars and cost more jobs
than they save; while Navarro and others such as US Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer and US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross think they could be an effective
way to reduce the US trade deficit and revive beleaguered
industries.
14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment
industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this
way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter
than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this
way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.
«What it means for
industry is that now you can actually make many, many more devices around you
way smarter
than they are right now,» notes Farhadi.
MW: Socialism: a
way of organizing a society in which major
industries are owned and controlled by the government rather
than by individual people and companies
But there are
ways in which we can expect the television
industry itself to take into consideration this new process and to use it to benefit, rather
than befuddle, us as viewers.
Nevertheless, the press either chose not to understand what the UNESCO debate was really all about or purposefully misled the public about the matter; either
way, the U.S. news
industry adopted a less
than «balanced» approach to the issue in order to protect its own self - interest.
Rather
than stifle competition for the sake of existing
industries, governments do better to stand out of the
way so that people and money released from failed businesses can flow into more productive, expanding sectors.
In the same
way that the energy
industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less
than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.
Several brands we've met at the show in this
way have gone onto have successful ranges in more
than 750 stores across the UK and Ireland, and this year we are hoping to find more original and brilliant creations this
industry has become known for,» says Pottinger.
A little more
than a decade ago the food
industry faced billions in losses due to recalls, legal actions, and lost sales as a result of tainted product making its
way into circulation.
«We came up with it and said this really would be a much better
way to do this process
than what the
industry historically has done,» Gum relates.
For example, simple additions like reclose features can go a long
way toward preventing premature spoilage and wasted food, but Tavill says the food packaging
industry overall needs to start thinking of packaging as more
than something to be thrown away after the food is eaten to improve its sustainability.
Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the
way out after more
than a century, as
industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems they set out to address.