Sentences with phrase «with divest»

«We agree that climate change is one of the world's most urgent and serious issues, but we respectfully disagree with Divest Harvard on the means by which a university should confront it,» Harvard spokesperson Tania deLuzuriaga said in a statement.

Maintaining the momentum, and not forgetting where we started out, we rejoined with our Divest London friends at the beginning of 2016 with a sea - shanty / flooding themed event at City Hall, and celebrated a short while later when all four leading candidates for Mayor of London committed to work to phase out London - wide fossil fuel investments.

The state government has begun the tender process to find a lead financial adviser as it plans to move ahead with divesting a portion of Keystart's loan book to the private sector.

Not exact matches

Trump's lease with the federal government to develop and operate a hotel inside the historic Old Post Office building expressly prohibits any elected official from benefiting from the property, yet Trump has not divested from his company or this particular project.

Tutu, a Nobel peace prize - winner, joined with other Nobel laureates this week to demand that the $ 350m Nobel foundation fund divest from fossil fuels.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

Divesting assets also leaves Barrick with less cash coming in on a recurring basis.

So it's disheartening that the student body at Barnard, a women's college that is part of Columbia University, voted Wednesday to encourage the administration to divest from companies that do business with Israel.

Trump operates a sprawling global business with real estate holdings that aren't as easily divested as stock.

Benefit from resolution of tax matters During the first quarter of 2017, the Spanish Supreme Court decided, in the company's favor, an ongoing transfer pricing case with the Spanish tax authorities related to businesses Cadbury divested prior to the company's acquisition of Cadbury.

These businesses, which represent approximately $ 278 million of the company's 2017 revenue, are part of the previously announced Conduent plan to divest up to $ 500 million in revenue in 2018 associated with non-core assets across the company.

Some major institutions may have to divest assets, and Canaccord with Genuity is a larger more profitable firm that could make acquisitions to grow our businesses.

That would raise obvious alarm with regulators in the U.S., but it could work if AB InBev divested most of the U.S. business right away, selling to MolsonCoors, the most likely buyer.

The strategy was, of course, met with skepticism, and Lavalin found itself under pressure to divest the assets during a rough patch.

The business is the seventh to be divested from the group and, with turnover in excess of $ 600 million, was the largest in the group.

RBS had also contemplated seeking to keep Henry Bath as a merchant deal after buying into the Sempra Commodities business in 2008, but ultimately decided that it would be better to divest Henry Bath than hold it at arm's length, according to a person familiar with the decision.

These businesses, which generate approximately $ 43 million in revenue are part of the announced Conduent plan to divest up to $ 500 million in revenue in 2018 associated with non-core assets across the company.

Gamble's successor, Robin Schiele — a seven - year veteran of the magazine who had also worked at the Montreal Gazette and a Montreal investment house — continued the profitable run, and by 1977 Revenue Canada again insisted the chamber divest or fold the magazine, which then boasted a circulation of 52,000 and, with multiple readers per copy, a readership of 185,000.

Note: 1Q 2017 figures do not include volumes associated with assets that have since been divested, including Appalachia and San Juan.

ConocoPhillips is the process of divesting $ 5 - 10 billion of assets, and Mulva said those efforts are ongoing along with other 2011 - 12 initiatives previously announced.

A week later, Smith published an open letter calling for Yahoo to divest itself of its Alibaba assets, return the money to its shareholders and then merge with AOL.

Restructuring efforts to divest assets were met with strong support from investors, and favorable production data from some of its holdings showed that the company had plenty of good future prospects.

The potential for a profitable relationship with HUD underscores a central problem with Trump's refusal to fully divest from his holdings before entering office.

Still, Trump's deal with Carrier demonstrates the unprecedented challenge the president's conflicts of interest create: Unless he either puts his holdings in a truly blind trust or divests completely, a significant number of the decisions he makes will involve some level of financial incentive for himself as well as for the country.

Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).

Voya is planning to divest substantially all of its CBVA segment, as well as its individual fixed and fixed indexed annuity business, through an agreement with a consortium of investors.

This has increased pressure on companies with oil sands assets to improve (i.e., reduce) their environmental footprint, and in some cases, to divest such assets.

With US$ 650 million funds under management currently (US$ 1.7 billion cumulative to date), we have invested in more than 480 companies and divested over 400 companies of which more than 110 have been publicly listed.

In mid-January 2016, with that verdict still pending, it announced that it was considering divesting itself of its US life insurance unit, a plan which could undermine the US government's efforts to increase oversight of nonfinancial firms that are considered «too big to fail.»

We called on you to divest your money from Trojan Horse businesses with no regard to community — to us the long - term residents and businesses of New York City.

Fresenius Medical Care today announced an important strategic step to sharpen its U.S. Care Coordination profile with the signing of a definitive agreement to divest its controlling interest in Sound Inpatient Physicians Holdings, LLC to an investment consortium led by Summit Partners, for total transaction proceeds of...

Shell, which has been slowly divesting its Woodside holding, initially said its Shell Energy Holdings Australia Limited (SEHAL) unit had struck a deal with two investment banks to sell 71.6 million Woodside shares for A$ 31.10 ($ 23.79) apiece.

As Richard Rubin pointed out to me on Twitter, section 1043 of the Code is designed to help with similar situations when the certain executive or judicial branch members are required to divest to avoid a conflict of interest.

The banks should be nationalized, at least temporarily, and every person and institution involved (otherwise known as the elite banksters and politicians who served and supported the government and «quasi» government decisions) in each of the bailouts and heists of the taxpayer's (i.e. the «common» mans) money, should be divested of their personal assets and earnings and put in a stockade for public viewing, smack dab in the middle of Wall Street, to be pelted with rotten vegetables.

They began urging institutional investors, including universities, to divest their assets from companies that did business with the regime.

And that is why I divested the «classic» I woke up with one morning.

But I also follow the ups and downs of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, which since 2004, when the Presbyterian Church USA voted to divest from companies doing business with Israel, has become popular among some Christian groups.

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

Newman explains: «A man who thus divests himself of his own greatness, and puts himself on the level of his brethren, and throws himself upon the sympathies of human nature, and speaks with such simplicity and such spontaneous outpouring of heart, is forthwith in a condition both to conceive great love of them, and to inspire great love towards himself.»

The correlation of judgment with judgment, of criteriology with trial, only expresses, in judicial terms, the relation of two acts: the act of a self - consciousness which divests (se depouille) itself and tries to understand itself, the act of testifying by which the absolute is revealed in its signs and its works.

Has anything been done with God's help as great as the miracles performed by man with science once he has divested himself of God?

If any one of them loses contact with the others, it degenerates into a caricature that eventually divests it of its revelatory character, of its transparency to mystery.

But this much we can say with confidence: at every point of suffering and wrong, in every situation where man is being divested of his essential humanity, the judgment and the grace of God is operative through some human agency.

The banner — aimed at U.S. Bank — said «Divest» in large letters, along with «#NoDAPL.»

In an industry exclusive, Evert van de Weg speaks with the recipients of Ball's divested part of its business, Ardagh Group.

DuPont to Divest a Portion of Its Crop Protection Business and Acquire FMC's Health & Nutrition Business; Transaction Marks Meaningful Step Forward in Proposed DuPont and Dow Merger; Maintains Significant Strategic Value Creation Potential of Merger Transaction; Merger with Dow Now Expected to Close Between August 1 and September 1

At any rate, the haters haven't kept up with the times, as Arcapita divested itself of the last of its shares in Caribou in 2011.

By divesting the state from any business with corporations who fuel Iran's terrorist activities and pursuit of nuclear weapons, we are doing our part to make the world a safer, more secure place.

We have the flexibility to phase our investment projects and a disciplined and rigorous approach to capital allocation that ensures we only invest in the highest returning opportunities in the most attractive sectors and divest assets that no longer fit with our strategy.»

I should take a quote from «Equities Market Outlook in 2017» issued by Afrinvest reported in the media under the headline «Multiple Exchange Rates Stall Foreign Inflow into Nigerian Equities» in January 2017, «Our interactions with several foreign investors with interests in Nigeria suggest that a decision to stake any position in the Nigerian market will be a function of currency liquidity and a greater certainty on their ability to repatriate capital anytime they divest.