Sentences with phrase «works against your investment»

Inflation also works against your investments.

You have these tendencies for a reason, but sometimes that reason works against your investment goals.

Not exact matches

Nijjar says his lack of entrepreneurial experience actually works in his favour when he's looking for investment opportunities and closing deals — he doesn't have personal success stories to «pattern match» potential investees against or operational dogmas to foist on them under the guise of help.

Gibney also explained how the fund's investment in Facebook stacked up against its principle of backing entrepreneurs doing valuable work.

But if you're working with a client who may have cash flow issues, paying the credit card fee may be a good investment in protection against receiving a seriously late project payment.

As ProPublica detailed in 2010, Magnetar worked with investment banks to build CDOs that the hedge fund also bet against.

Also, should our insight prove premature and the stock or investment that we own works against us, the position becomes smaller and thus less worrisome among our portfolio holdings.

If you still need your investments to grow, as most people do when entering retirement, then bonds are going to work against you.

Can investments be withdrawn from companies that work against justice and sustainability?

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!

Competition among nations to attract investment, a central element in the global economy, works against the environment.

The increased professionalization of academic life in religious studies also works against serious faculty investment of time and energy in interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Michael Croft, President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will argue at a St James Ethic Centre debate on 4 March 2014 that foreign investment in agricultural land and infrastructure works against Australia's national and best interests unless the regulatory system and current model are changed.

Cole is the first Democrat to publicly announce a bid against Collins, whose fifth year in Congress has been marked by controversy over his investment in an Australian biotech company that critics said could have benefited from his work on a bill aimed at speeding clinical trials of new drugs.

Ro Khanna, who is working on a rematch against incumbent California Democratic Rep. Mike Honda raked in $ 480,500 from investment firms compared to $ 170,752 from the electronics manufacturing sector, his next top donor group.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Gavin Hood (Rendition), working from a script by Guy Hibbert, thoroughly examines every facet of the arguments for and against the strike, while letting us get to know the characters — before and during the operation — just enough to have an investment in them and feel the gnawing uncertainty that they feel.

Undertake the work the NAO and Public Accounts Committee recommended in 2016 to evaluate the cost - effectiveness of spending on supporting the serving workforce, set against its investment in training new teachers.

I do understand the concern about paying someone a lot of money to edit one's work when the odds are against any ROI (return - on - investment).

We work collaboratively with pension plans to think about the big questions: how to deliver reliable, consistent income options; how to close a personal funding gap or protect against excessive investment risk; how to generate greater certainty for members around the type of retirement they can expect.

For Canadian discount brokerages, competing against «robo» style automation means that DIY investing is going to have to feel like less work, and to achieve that will take continuous investment in technology and, most importantly, listening to clients.

However, greed in the currency markets or in any investment / trading market will work against you most of the time and it's something you must consciously be aware of and fight if you want to have a chance at long - lasting trading success.

Also, FHA loans don't work for investment and vacation homes and a spouse's debts can work against you, even if the spouse doesn't co ‐ sign.

For example, if you add $ 1,000 to a portfolio at the beginning of the year, it works for you (or against you if the investment sours) for a longer time than if you were to put it in at the end of the year, yet in both situations you have added the same amount — $ 1,000 — to the same original portfolio value.

This can work against you and threaten the safety of your investment, your principal.

From advice on short - term investment strategies to managing your organizations» endowment, Webster Financial Advisors can help make your assets work harder for your organization while protecting against potential risks.

There are two dynamics of correlation that are working against the diversification benefits of holding un-hedged international investments.

«Whether your retirement is a ways off or around the corner, it is important to consider your investment goals, make a plan, and diversify to protect against short - term market shifts while working towards your longer - term objectives.»

He said that special situations and control investments work as a shield against poor general market developments.

Because of the advances of the science, our appreciation of the risk is stronger now, and therefore that warrants more investment in working to ensure against that.

«Stifling investments in innovation is going to basically work against the very goal that everyone is trying to achieve,» he added.

It focuses on UNISDR's work with partners to deliver results and measures achievement against the strategic objectives for these two years, including 1) disaster risk reduction accepted and applied for climate change adaptation; 2) measurable increases in investment in disaster risk reduction; 3) disaster - resilient cities, schools and hospitals; and 4) strengthened international system for disaster risk reduction.

Unless these disincentives are addressed, utility investments in customer energy efficiency programs work against their shareholders» interests...

Aside from the public perception that nuclear power plants are an enormous potential hazard, the high initial cost of these plants and the high cost of closing them when they get old works against attracting investment.

Your electric generation does not cost you anything, so the moment your system starts working, you begin recovering on your investment against the electric costs you incurred through the local utility.

In light of this week's U.N. General Assembly and Climate Summit, 118 groups from 37 countries urged U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon (1) to ensure that private finance is not counted as international climate finance, and (2) to work against the greenwashing of private investment, particularly in the exponentially - growing green bond market.

In a letter to members of Congress the groups say that while efforts to make the tax code less complicated and more competitive are good, raising energy taxes and increasing costs will work against greater industry investment and activity that would provide broad benefit to the U.S. economy.

Work highlights Appeared in the Supreme Court for investment adviser Charles Kokesh against the SEC, successfully arguing that a five - year statute of limitation governing penalties and forfeitures applies to SEC claims seeking disgorgement of illegally obtained profits.

Work process investments can include analysts who are adept at breaking down routine processes into specific steps and tasks, training in practice management, project management and process improvement, and software programs that help track progress against budget on matters or provide real time information at the practice group level.

Stephen Baldwin filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Kevin Costner, not for any work they had done together in the entertainment industry, but for Baldwin's investments in Costner's company, Costner in Nevada Corporation (CNIC).

Damian also undertakes other liability work for major insurers, under public liability policies, including product liability cases and claims arising out of property damage.He has considerable experience of acting in claims against Independent Financial Advisers, investment managers, accountants, actuaries and other professionals associated with the financial services sector, as well as solicitors and insurance brokers.

2002): As counsel for investment company owning plaintiff, worked closely with co-counsel to obtain verdict against infringer; authored appeal brief to obtain affirmance by CAFC with additional price erosion damages awarded.

«We're not just a rubber stamp at the end of the process», she explains but «work with the investment teams from the beginning of a transaction; analysing the best way to balance the legal risks against the commercial priorities and while doing so we help shape the transactions and the direction of our investments».

Both the extra premium payments and the delayed receipt of the death benefit payment work against the investor and can substantially reduce the illustrated investment return.

Conference panelists acknowledged that working to address intersectionality requires investment in time, energy and critical partnerships, and is «messy», according to Marais Larasi, Executive Director from Imkaan, the UK - based, black feminist organisation dedicated to addressing violence against women and girls which co-produced the «I'd just like to be free» film which was shown at the conference.