Sentences with phrase «who lost their investments»

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VCs are supposed to be good - natured people who simply suck it up when they lose hundreds of millions of dollars and, in this even crazier case, when they are literally more than $ 8 billion ahead of the game on their piddly $ 27 million investment.

Novogratz, who left Fortress Investment Group in 2015 after the fund lost money, told CNBC in November that bitcoin could multiply more than four times by the end of this year.

We could expect to see more investment into Buffalo Wild Wings» locations to make them more appealing to customers who are increasingly losing interest in casual dining.

When you strip down the complicated investment vehicles — now being peddled for pennies on the dollar — there are people like Jack Hamersma, a boat salesman Packer wrote about who lost his job, was diagnosed with cancer and then had his house foreclosed upon.

At the same time, smaller, private investors — who are often family, friends or other personal acquaintances — may be more likely to invest in your venture, but they need to realize that the investment comes with risk and they might lose their money, he says.

For all the indications that younger investors may be catching onto a «buy - and - hold» stock investment strategy, it's important to note that millennials have much less to invest, and to lose, by staying in the market than their parents who are close to retirement.

Led by firms like Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp., the industry has argued that costlier regulations would take away options for smaller investors, who would lose access to advice as well as investment choices.

Buffett, who is famous for his «buy and hold» mentality, stuck with his initial investment, which ended up losing more than $ 700 million toward the end of the year, according to CNBC.

Meanwhile, those who bought Snap stocks during its peak price have now lost 42 percent on their investment.

The lawsuit argues that hedge funds have been traditionally limited to «accredited investors» who have more than $ 200,000 in annual income and / or more than $ 1,000,000 in net worth, restricting these investments to those who can afford to lose their invested principal.

Since 90 % of people who play the markets lose money, there is a very high probability that the investment idea in question is a bad idea.

Investing in startups is very risky, highly speculative, and should not be made by anyone who can not afford to lose their entire investment.

A trader who wagers incorrectly on the market's direction loses his investment.

Equity crowdfunding investments in private placements, and start - up investments in particular, are speculative and involve a high degree of risk and those investors who can not afford to lose their entire investment should not invest in start - ups.

Think about people who were invested in Enron, Bear Stearns or Blockbuster — they only lost their initial investment, they didn't take a credit hit or lose their homes.

A trader who wagers incorrectly on the market's direction ends up losing a fixed amount of her / his investment or all of it.

LOS ANGELES (AP)-- A California grandmother who lost her life savings in a real estate investment scam offered by an insurance agent was awarded more than $ 15 million Wednesday in a lawsuit against MetLife and two subsidiaries, attorneys said.

For every investment banker whose pay has recovered to its prerecession levels, there are several who have lost their jobs — as well as many wealthy investors who have lost millions.

Invest in a great business who has a long standing good record with great owners can be a blessing, while trying to invest in a poorly managed business can lead to losing your entire investment or worse, going after your other assets.

Enigma, the investment platform that is preparing for an ICO next month, confirmed today that it will refund members of its community who lost money after a scammer compromised its social accounts.

Certainly, investors hear alarming investment nightmare stories about people who held a large proportion of their personal wealth in their employer's stock and lost everything.3 4 While your client may think, «I know this company because I work here,» that thinking can get them into trouble — think WorldCom and Lehman Brothers.

Investors who trade options can be exposed to extreme risk of losing their investments or more.

Investing in private placements, tokens and early stage businesses involves a high degree of risk, including illiquidity, lack of dividends, loss of investment and dilution, and those investors who can not afford to lose their entire investment should not invest.

But for a businessman, who must take risks in order to make money; who will buy nothing without careful, thorough investigation; and who will not risk more than he is able to lose, there is no other investment in the market today as tempting as mining stock.»

«What's clear from these results is that investment returns are not only related to your own track record, but to having good colleagues around you,» said Professor Gompers, who was a paid witness for the defense in the discrimination trial, which Ms. Pao lost.

He then cites legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Investment Corp, who said that: «I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money; focus on protecting what you have.»

Equity crowdfunding investments in private placements, regulation A offerings and start - up investments in particular are speculative and involve a high degree of risk and those investors who can not afford to lose their entire investment should not invest in start - ups.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

It is clear that some groups, especially those who live from the investment of capital, will gain by increasing the size of markets and that labor now living above the global subsistence level will lose.

But there is an investment secret which the master did not tell his servants, and which explains why Jesus did not include a fourth servant in His parable who risked everything and lost.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said the $ 275 million investment will create 380 direct roles and 460 contract positions, including for General Motors Holden workers who are set to lose their jobs when their plant in Elizabeth closes.

Therefore, if «the stock market crashes or the loan industry bubble bursts», those with capital at risk are more likely to lose money than those who don't have any / many investments, and therefore the line will (likely) move back towards zero.

Teams who lost their previous game as a favorite of at least 4 - points have been extremely profitable with a record of 98 - 69 ATS (58.7 %) with +23.71 units won and a 14.2 % return on investment (ROI).

While these results show a clear advantage, the return on investment (ROI) isn't enough to recommend betting every single team who lost their previous game.

Signed from Rennes for just # 12.75 million in 2016, the $ 105million fee, potentially rising to as much as $ 140million, represented a tremendous return on their investment, but BVB were losing a player who had shone in the previous season, becoming the creative fulcrum of the side with 21 assists.

It is a no - lose investment from someone who has a reputation for saying little, but investing smartly.

whilst retaining van der sar, giggs, scholes, neville etc who set the clubs standards and winning mentality... we hav lost vieira, petit, henry, keown, Cashley, campbell, lauren, parlour, pires, wiltord, kanu, lehmann, overmars, bergkamp and our only investments to compare with that (i.e established players that u wud get excited about) have been reyes, arshavin, nasri... can u blame fans for being frustrated

My heart goes out to those who face the dilemma of having to either attend knowing that, in part, the conference is receiving sponsorship dollars from a company they are actively boycotting — or to skip it on that basis and lose out on both the investment and the opportunity.

The thriller «Wicker Park,» which opens Friday, stars Josh Hartnett as a young heartbroken investment banker who settles in the neighborhood and ends up on an obsessive search for his lost love.

People who inherit wealth are more likely than people who accumulate wealth themselves to use it for self - indulgence or to lose it with bad investments.

October 4, 1992, AP Joseph J. DioGuardi, who is seeking election to a House seat he lost amid charges of campaign finance irregularities, tried to avoid paying taxes through an investment scheme designed to lose money, according to U.S. Tax Court records... In 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court papers.

So that would create, I think, undue risk for the shareholders who may lose 100 percent of their investment in the course of the context of that regime.»

The New York State Pension Fund, and the taxpayers who have to backstop it, have lost billions of dollars because Tom DiNapoli made risky investments on Wall Street in an attempt to meet an unrealistic return expectation that any private sector money manager in America — except maybe Bernie Madoff — would know is a fallacy.»

The $ 23.7 million solar project — built on a 50 - acre site leased from the Agahozo - Shalom Youth Village, established to care for children who lost parents to Rwanda's 1990s genocide — was developed by the Dutch - American firm Gigawatt Global with support from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a Power Africa partner; Scatec Solar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the UniteInvestment Corp. (OPIC), a Power Africa partner; Scatec Solar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the Uniteinvestment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Since 2013, shareholders who purchased the 9.76 M shares from Great Hill Partners and the company for $ 6.15 / share have lost 22 % of their investment.

The first trailer for Fox Searchlight's upcoming drama Demolition has been released online, and we have it for you below... Directed by Jean - Marc Vallee (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club), Demotion stars Jake Gyllenhaal (Southpaw) «a successful investment banker who unravels after losing his wife in a tragic car crash.

Who: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Heather Lind What: A successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash.

Money Monster (May 13th): Directed by two - time Oscar winner Jodie Foster, this thriller focuses on a financial guru on television who is held hostage by a young man who has lost all of his investments.

Among them are deleterious effects on children of unregulated and often substandard childcare; [9] lost productivity for employers due to parents missing work to handle gaps in childcare or to care for a sick child; [10] lost wages and reduced retirement benefits for parents who have to drop out of the labor market to provide at - home care for their young children; [11] a substantial downward pressure on the wages of childcare workers with effects on the quality and stability of the childcare workforce; [12] and lost opportunities for further education, [13] college savings, and other investments that working parents could make in themselves and their children but can not afford because they are spending most or all of their disposable income on childcare.

Changes in California's zero - emissions CARB policy helped Ford lose interest in the project, and the company was sold to a Swiss company, who in turn sold it in 2006 to a Norwegian investment company that included Pivco's original founder, Jan Otto Ringdal as a partner.