Sentences with phrase «with years of investment»

Mirren is the driven hard - ass with years of investment in this one asset, Rickman tries to bridge the gap to the British government, and Paul is the one that actually has to come to terms with pulling the trigger.

Not exact matches

Only two years later, in 2013, companies with a woman on the executive team were attracting 18 percent of venture investments.

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Kelly Evans at the Sohn Conference about Box being his best investment idea for the year, as well as the growth of big data and consumers» privacy rights.

At the University of Southern California this year, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman on several boards, not only spurred students to find someone to be passionate about — but also to expand their bandwidth of diversity by getting to know people with whom they have seemingly nothing in common.

The firm's mortgage investment corporation has about 2,400 such loans in its portfolio, with an average size of $ 85,000, and says it maintained a $ 4.3 - million loan loss provision on a $ 214 - million portfolio last year.

Fidelity Investments - backed Innovent Biologics and Ascentage Pharma both plan to float in the second half of this year and are working with several advisers, they added.

«Blockchain» became the buzz word in financial technology this year, with everyone from banking and financial institutions (like Goldman Sachs and the New York Stock Exchange) to payment processors (Mastercard, Visa, and American Express) extolling its potential and publicly announcing interest in it, often in the form of startup investments.

James Cole, senior vice-president and portfolio manager with Portland Investment Counsel, would rather see a company that has a long track record of steady growth than one that's been soaring for a year or two.

The Chan Zuckerberg initiative, the investment fund of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, has also pledged to support the institute with $ 20,000 (# 16,000) a year.

Wesfarmers has reported direct community investment of $ 44.6 million for the 2013 - 14 financial year, with social welfare and health the largest areas of expenditure.

If you manage to save 35 % of your combined gross income of $ 120,000 per year, you can accumulate $ 420,000 in today's dollars, even assuming your investments merely keep pace with inflation.

Pony Ma's company, Tencent, has moved with the stealth of its founder this year, making a series of investments in Western companies that are significant, but not splashy: A 5 percent stake in Tesla, a 10 percent stake in Snap, an investment in Essential Products, and now, reportedly, a 10 percent stock swap with Spotify.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

Republicans and Democrats began this year with ambitious talk of reaching a bipartisan agreement on tax reform, but it has now become clear to most that it will require the investment of more time and political capital than President Obama has remaining.

The potential investment comes after a difficult few years for Yum in China, its biggest market by sales, where a series of food - safety scandals and management mis - steps has dented its reputation with diners.

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

As we noted earlier this month when we revealed this year's list, an equal - weighted portfolio of Fortune 500 stocks held since 1980, rebalanced with each new year's list, would have earned twice the return of an investment in broader market indices.

Releasing a report responding to Ceres — a group made up of institutional investors which has for years been pushing resource companies to disclose their carbon bubble risks — Exxon vice-president of corporate strategic planning William Colton said, «All of ExxonMobil's current hydrocarbon reserves will be needed, along with substantial future industry investments, to address global energy needs.»

The idea is that retirees with well - diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their holdings — or $ 4,500 per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.

Born roughly between 1960 and 1980 (the precise years are the subject of endless hairsplitting), they're now at an age when they have families, homes, mortgages, cars and maybe even investments, with the oldest of them in their peak earning years.

Sales in central London have tanked 41 percent in the first quarter of this year to just 3406 sales compared with the previous year, data from real estate investment adviser London Central Portfolio showed Monday.

Medved is one of the more successful VCs — over the past 20 years, he has helped bring 11 companies to valuations of more than $ 100 million, with some of his more notable investments including Shopping.com (acquired by eBay) and Answers.com (acquired by Summit).

There's yet another wrinkle in the new age of retirement and job insecurity — keeping track of all those company retirement savings plans you've racked up, along with that IRA you opened years ago, and creating a coherent investment strategy with them.

The Australian company says the investment will be spread over a number of years with completion of two mining shafts expected during 2016.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

Schwimmer has been with Goldman for 20 years and most recently served as global head of market structure and global head of metals and mining in investment banking.

In a recent note to clients, Madani wrote that housing investment may continue to assist GDP growth throughout the rest of 2013, «but there are still tentative signs that a day of reckoning lies around the corner, with housing likely to become a significant drag on growth next year.»

In Oval Office talks, Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed an agreement last year for $ 200 billion worth of Saudi investments with the United States, including large purchases of U.S. military equipment.

Long associated with older industries, Osaka has struggled to get out of the shadow of Tokyo as a start - up hub, but it has upped its game in recent years with new start - up investment funds, downtown university campuses, incubators and pitch events.

What I have learned from many years of working with tech - enabled growth companies; on both sides of mergers and acquisitions; and angel, private equity and venture capital investments, is that accretion of IP value is the key element to supporting overall enterprise value — representing scalability in phases of rapid growth and supporting attractive multiples during the fundraising and exit phases.

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Susan Gibbs turned her part - time hobby into a going business when she financed her yarn company, Juniper Moon Farm, with CSA investments: Members pay $ 175 per share in return for about 1,800 yards of yarn a year.

By contrast, economic growth in Canada contracted in the first half of the year and business investment — the most important factor in demand for imports — collapsed along with oil prices.

«Many of the companies we back start out as little features,» says Roloef Botha, a partner with Sequoia Capital who led the company's investment in YouTube, which Google bought for $ 1.65 billion last year.

«Despite the sell - off, tech is still one of the only two sectors with positive returns this year, after leading the market last year with a 38 percent return,» said Neena Mishra, director of ETF research at Zacks Investment Research.

But after five straight years of positive returns, sentiment among equity analysts neared an all - time high, with the Wall Street consensus calling for an 11.1 % gain, according to a recent study by Bespoke Investment Group.

And he contrasted that with the discontent he noticed, back when he was based for five years in London, over how globalized trade and investment seemed to benefit only «a very discrete group» of the highly educated Brits.

Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.

And if you think about the time line associated with these, there's multiple years of permitting process, there's a decision to make the investment, and then there's multiple years of building, constructing, and then being ready to export.

A survey by investment and research group RBC Capital last year found that American surgeons think that within five years, 35 % of operations will involve robots in some form, compared with 15 % today.

While Jim Cramer prepares for a new year, he's dusting off some of his old investment rules and sprucing them up to evolve with the ever - changing stock market.

With $ 23 million in revenue in 2011, a three - year growth rate of 10,160 %, and over $ 40 million in investments, Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso is feeling lucky.

Corey Davis, an analyst with investment firm Jefferies & Co., estimates shares will rise to $ 1.44 in 2014 (about a 60 cents jump from the current price) after the combined company has a full year of operations under its belt.

The push by the tech sector piggybacks on years of state - driven Chinese investments in infrastructure in Latin America, with a pool of 2,000 companies pouring more than $ 200 billion in the region as of January.

Among the most active sectors on TSX and TSXV over the last year, Real Estate provides investors with a multitude of investment opportunities.

Imagine you make $ 50,000 a year at age 40, and you're thinking about retiring, since your current investments could return a feasible $ 40,000 a year to you indefinitely (following the 4 percent rule with a principal of $ 1,000,000).

In all, disclosed investment in enterprise - storage startups has amounted to about a billion dollars per year in each of the last few years, says Simon Robinson, a research vice president for storage and information management with 451 Research, which has been covering the space since 2000.

It may seem auspicious, coming as it does while the federal government ponders approval of China National Offshore Oil Co.'s $ 15 - billion purchase of Calgary - based Nexen, but the new investment agreement with China that is soon to be ratified in Parliament was actually 18 years in the making.

In line with Li's statements, the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs released a list of 22 new policies to attract foreign investment in the new year.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.