Many billionaires expect a financial return on their media investments.
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Qualified investors, and the alumni, also earn a financial return.
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People are talking about the financial return and the social return.
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The value in the investment is not to generate a financial return.
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Will the after-tax financial return be greater than the interest cost?
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The financial return on any of these artifacts is hard to say.
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Effective CEOs generally try to earn a financial return for their shareholders.
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Financial return is critical, but social and societal returns are equally important.
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For them, the potential financial return is only part of the attraction.
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What sort of financial return can we expect over a reasonable time horizon?
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But Paul says that earning a financial return is essential to the fund's success.
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Past efforts to rank education providers based on the financial return they offer have struggled.
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If they are investing $70 million, it begs the question what is their financial return?
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This ensures a more significant financial return on investment for clean energy while mitigating carbon.
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In addition, last August, a part of baseball's digital business generated a big financial return.
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Banks and brokers say they do not promise a financial return when selling the stones.
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"You'll need to look not only at the financial return, but personally as well as professionally."
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Even so, they are no panacea, especially for socially important projects that don't offer sufficient financial return.
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If you can invest to get more than just a financial return, it's really a big win.
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We're developing vaccines for the poorest of the poor with no real prospect of significant financial return.
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"It's investing with the aim of making a difference alongside earning a financial return," Ms. Savant said.
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And that what we're doing matters even beyond the financial return we hope to earn for them.
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In some communities and for some problems, there is simply not enough of an expected financial return.
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Personal finance pros say more often than not, investing in sports does not reap a financial return.
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I don't know that it's logical to invest in well-being and expect a near-term financial return.
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"These companies will solve many of these world challenges, so their financial return should show that," he said.
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The first is those investors who have to own government bonds, regardless of the financial return on offer.
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When done right, with thoughtful plans and committed partners, community investments can deliver both financial return and impact.
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It is still early to judge Quantopian's allocations (ranging from $100,000 to $3m per algorithm) by their financial return.
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At the first look, you'll notice that the dilution and financial return patterns are similar to that of Phantom.
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It's actually investments that are beyond financial return and I think the private sector has it all to play.
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"Unfortunately, the transaction will not result in the financial return we all hoped for," Weaver wrote in the introduction.
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Last week, I mentioned a new study that found a huge financial return on college degrees for poor students.
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The financial return to the investor is contingent on factors such as job placement and transition to higher education.
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The public, she said, is "putting tons of money" into drug development, but often receives no direct financial return.
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When dropouts are included, the expected financial return to starting a degree for the weakest students dwindles to almost nothing.
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And thankfully in today's investment landscape, investors no longer have to choose between supporting noble causes and generating financial return.
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That is an investment in your physical and mental well-being, even if you never see a specific financial return.
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Another analysis similarly found that after 40 hours a week, there isn't a clear financial return to clocking more hours.
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"Crowdfunding is an easy means of finding projects that you believe in and also generate a financial return," he said.
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They founded Microlumbia, an impact investment fund, which measures its success in terms of social benefit, not just financial return.
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While the money benefits the farmers, the loan is expected to generate a financial return that will be re-invested.
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Like others in the growing sector, Adobe scours the market for investments demonstrating social or environmental benefits alongside financial return.
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Others are impact investors – people who want to see their money do good and get a financial return on their investment.
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The financial return was contingent upon meeting a 7.5 percent reduction target set by the Ministry of Justice, which was exceeded.
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The first change was an increased financial return to additional years of education; the second was increased demand for more specialized skills.
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CRS acknowledged that there is sometimes a perceived conflict between charitable groups, especially religious ones, doing good and making a financial return.
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The potential impact investments to finance water resource solutions, generate related environmental benefits, and create a financial return, are there for the asking.
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Many of these young companies are chasing after social impact as well as a financial return to shareholders, and they give equal value.
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In recent years, a raft of crowdfunding platforms that allow consumers to invest directly in social enterprises for a financial return has emerged.
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HIGH-END DRILLING With activity recovering, Schlumberger said it would allocate investments, capacity and expertise to contracts that meet its financial return expectations.
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However, the company spending $40,000 a week to keep a journalist safe in Syria is rarely seeing a positive financial return from their articles.
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But impact investing, historically, is a view that we will take a lesser financial return in order to have some sort of other impact.
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The new unit will direct and coordinate impact investing, a growing area that aims to create social or environmental change while generating financial return.
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According to the lender, the financial return of such loans is calculated as a percentage of a company's future revenue streams, preventing equity dilution.
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"If someone's interested in financial return on investment, that's not a good fit," Natalia Oberti Noguera, Pipeline Angels' founder, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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This poses a dilemma for drug companies: With no real prospect of a financial return, can they justify the investment in expensive development and trials.
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TH: We're investing purely for financial return, and we'd celebrate selling businesses to Facebook just as much as selling them to Alphabet, to be honest.
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The implication is that – being Russian – my motive for these investments was not to make a financial return, but to gain influence over social media.
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But capital flows freely around the world, and any country offering a safe financial return even a bit above the norm attracts waves of money.
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ICOs offer another option to founders who are skittish about handing control of their baby over to outsiders driven above all else by financial return.
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Musk told Vanity Fair in 2017 that he invested in DeepMind to keep an eye on the progress of AI rather than for financial return.
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By measuring both the financial return of the investment and the happiness of being a part of that journey, I can holistically gauge the net outcome.
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These variants are quite different but most are set up on the premise that financial return need not be sacrificed in pursuit of non-financial goals.
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Those terms may include some way for the United States government to get a financial return from Keystone, a possibility he mentioned on the campaign trail.
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But without the patent protections, investors would be less confident that they will get a sufficient financial return for backing for these important improvements for patients.
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In fact, BP recently pulled out of Alaska because the company has no interest in drilling in a place that would provide it little financial return.
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While only a third of the collectors placed emphasis on financial return in their collecting, that increased to nearly half for those with wealth over $5 million.
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No company promised anyone a specific financial return, and aside from the price of each token and early-bird discounts, they stuck to talking up their product.
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In this hypothetical case, that nine-year gap in expected life span radically shifts the relative financial return the two men would receive on their tax dollars.
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Bishop McGrath and his advisers also believed that "the purchase of the home made sense in terms of financial return on investment," he said in the statement.
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Selling diamonds with the promise of a financial return is banned in Italy unless regulated in the same way as other financial products, such as mutual funds.
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A growing share of FOs, currently a third, do some "impact" investing—where the goal is a measurable social or environmental benefit as well as a financial return.
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There are some who argue that Uber could have saved time and money and simply invested in Didi earlier if it wanted this kind of financial return potential.
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Many airline executives publicly tout their commitment to the customer, but then are reluctant to invest in customer experience improvements—unsure of the financial return they really deliver.
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Using cash-flow simulations, the OECD calculated that 23 countries' maximum fines were not high enough to offset the financial return on investments in which bribery is involved.
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OpenAI's mission is: …to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.
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"The long-term opportunity is not only to solve the event space but the whole event," said Kraus, whose firm is tasked with generating a financial return for Alphabet.
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That's the question at the heart of impact investing, or investments made with the intention of creating a positive social or environmental affect in addition to a financial return.
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Yet, that opportune window seems to be shrinking in size, making it harder for potential startup employees to nail the timing necessary to garner their own best financial return.
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The company reached a record cane allocation to ethanol production for this period, at 66.3%, optimizing installations to produce the biofuel which currently gives larger financial return than sugar.
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Jozef Henriquez, head of resource mobilization at the Inter-American Investment Corporation, said how the money is used should be "as important - or more important - than the financial return".
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The deal "will further complement the development of ADNOC's integrated global trading platform, while also delivering a solid financial return," ADNOC Chief Executive Sultan al-Jaber said in a statement.
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Fifth Wall noticed the nine investors in its first proptech fund sought not only a financial return but also synergies and cost savings with the technologies they adopted, he said.
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This poses a dilemma for drug companies: With no real prospect of a financial return, can they justify the investment, even when they get support from government agencies and charities.
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" I walk them through that process and I explain that it's not necessarily about the longevity of, "Is this work gonna turn into some sort of financial return for you?
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While we work to get answers, here are our top six: Will these be investments seeking to generate a financial return, or will they be some sort of grant or loan?
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While there are many interpretations of the term impact investing, it can be summed up as investing for measurable and positive environmental, social or governmental (ESG) outcomes with a financial return.
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The company reached a record cane allocation to ethanol production for this period, at 66.3%, optimizing installations to produce more of the biofuel which currently gives larger financial return than sugar.
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These are funds that seek to make a measurable impact, alongside financial return, by investing in companies with a record of measuring and improving workplace diversity and equal pay for equal work.
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Redbeat Capital has raised its money from LPs — though it declined to provide details on them — and Fernandes said it will balance both making investments for financial return and boosting AirAsia, too.
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While this does not apply to service, management, and construction contracts, it makes long-term leases unappealing because a private partner cannot use that revenue to generate financial return for its investors.
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"Look at our financial return since we went public, right here in 2004," he said, sitting on the "Squawk on the Street" desk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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"Everybody keeps redefining it based on financial return," said Paul Basile, 373, the president of the Gowanus Alliance, a 300-member group working to preserve its backbone as a center of commerce.
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But no one involved with the deal will say that the promise of passivity is codified in anything beyond press releases, and the prospect of a strong financial return is anything but certain.
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But a movie studio doesn't function based on good vibes, so it will take a real sense that there's a financial return coming from the Comic-Con investment for trends to reverse themselves.
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"The Black List, to some extent, lays bare the fact that if you take great scripts, and make them into movies, you have a better chance of delivering a financial return," Leonard says.
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So we're helping them understand how to take that amazing asset, which is the deal flow, and refine it and focus in on the companies that have the best potential for financial return.
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"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return," Brockman said in a blog post.
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Yet as the founders wrote then: Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.
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Some lenders estimate that helping a borrower find a job will increase their financial return (by as much as 10 percent) without the criticisms dogging many traditional lenders (see the recent Navient lawsuit, for instance).
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Players on those teams, too, are producing a real financial return for the N.C.A.A., for its member colleges and for CBS and Turner Sports, even though their abilities will never be remotely so lucrative again.
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While late-stage investors in these companies can ensure financial protection in such down-rounds through the use of so-called "ratchets", they can hurt company morale and lower the financial return for earlier stage investors.
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Some of the new generation of investors aren't so new generation, but a new class of investors is probably a better way to say it, who want more than just a financial return for their capital.
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The fake-horn approach fundamentally misses the underlying weakness in the economics of conservation: poaching is cheap and quick and can generate good financial return; conservation is long-term and expensive and struggles to generate revenue.
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But it remains challenging to get new drugs through the approval process and to secure a decent financial return once they are launched, given resistance from healthcare insurers and governments to the rising cost of medical treatment.
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He said he thought the D.A.O. would provide a good financial return, but he was also motivated by his belief that the venture is an experiment in a new way of organizing companies, and potentially even governments.
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Supporters of Interior's rule say capturing methane and putting it on the natural gas market will lead to a bigger financial return for both drillers and American taxpayers, who own the land on which the companies drill.
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"Upon information and belief, Charatan, a cold blooded opportunist, conspired and agreed to help Durst conceal his murders of Kathie and Berman in exchange for a substantial financial return of tens of millions of dollars," the suit says.
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Measure what matters, not just the economic resultsExecutives and board members always want to see a financial return from investments like the shift to cloud, but companies should look to other metrics aside from economic impact, Burden said.
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Similarly, general managers are by now all too aware of the grim financial return that big-dollar free agents, who tend to receive their paydays shortly before beginning the decline phases of their careers, have delivered in the past.
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He also became a champion for impact investing, which is aimed at delivering a social or environmental benefit alongside a financial return, arguing that private capital can tackle some of the world's most pressing issues in the developing world.
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And so we have had a beautiful Rorschach test for the financial class these past few years regarding the company: it's either the greatest financial return of all time or a Ponzi scheme (and absolutely nothing in between dammit).
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If used in the right situations and for the right kinds of companies, venture debt is the perfect tool for raising growth capital while avoiding dilution and maximizing the potential financial return of the equity already invested in the business.
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"The economic benefit (of the railway) is much higher than financial return," Transport Minister of Thailand Arkhom Termpittayapaisith told Xinhua last December, referring to how more tourism and investment is expected to roll into regions in the country beyond Bangkok.
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ROME, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A cost-benefit analysis commissioned by Italy's transport ministry on a new high-speed railway link with France has branded the project a waste of public money, saying it would have a "strongly negative" financial return.
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The Obama administration had imposed a three-year moratorium on new federal coal leases in January 2016, arguing that the $1 billion-a-year program must be modernized to ensure a fair financial return to taxpayers and address climate change.
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As well as generating a financial return from rental income and rising house prices, WISH aims to deliver social impact by partnering with charities to ensure the women receive support for their complex needs, such as emotional or legal help.
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" And he dismissed criticism of his work at Bain as "politics," saying, "My own work at Bain Capital has been about investing in companies that produce both a financial return and a measurable social or environmental impact — a positive one.
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In time, its data might be used to give "investment advice", counselling its members on the financial return to specific skills and on how long they are likely to be useful; or to show members how other people have got into desirable positions.
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Our intention would be to gift you new product if and when released, or alternatively award you some shares in the new company if formed, which would obviously produce a financial return in the event that the new company is profitable or sold.
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By plugging in other variables like the price of a turbine, the cost of renting the land and the tariff a customer would be paid for electricity, Vestas can quickly provide a buyer with the probable financial return for a given location.
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Institutions don't have the freedom to tinker that individuals do: Pension funds and university endowments often invest in broad funds, so targeting individual stocks can be difficult, and the institutions also have legal obligations to maximize the financial return on their investments.
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These solutions are divided into "push" incentives (which provide support for early research and development with less emphasis on commercial development and financial return) "pull" incentives (which offer a financial performance for a successful event through market entry rewards or guaranteed purchase).
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"Deval Patrick joined Bain to launch an impact investing fund, believing that there is room for an approach that delivers both financial return as well as measurable social or environmental good," Aleigha Cavalier, a Patrick campaign spokeswoman, said in a statement to POLITICO.
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They focused on relatively small companies "where we can generate both a private-equity-style return — a financial return — and measurable impact in one of three areas: sustainability, health and wellness, and what we're describing as community building," Patrick said at the conference.
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Most of First Circle's loans are often transaction or working capital, such as financing to take on a new deal for a client with a guaranteed financial return that requires a fairly brutal wait of 90-120 days, Lynch told TechCrunch in an interview.
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But it has rubbed some the wrong way, and it's easy to understand grumbling that the company that not long ago said it wanted to be "unconstrained by a need to generate financial return" will now make decisions very much informed by that need.
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"Our investors are looking for an impact and a financial return, and this is off the charts when you look at what it's giving back," said Pryce, who polls investors each year to see how they want to align their capital with their values.
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Reading between the lines, when I asked if this meant Omnity was merely looking to be snapped up by Google, providing a nice financial return for its investors, Sager laughed off the assertion with a bold claim likely to generate sharp interest in the company.
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"While we expect a strong financial return, we also believe that we can bring Shape's platform into many of the leading companies in Europe who look to us for strategic ideas that benefit the entire value-chain where B2C applications are used," Pienaar told TechCrunch.
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So why is the Trump administration rushing to sell leases on this priceless land, at a time when we are awash in oil and gas, prices are low, and no one seriously believes the financial return they promised American taxpayers will actually be realized?
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According to the 20163 Annual Impact Investor Survey by Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and JP Morgan, impact investors – who want to create positive impact alongside financial return – chipped in more than $15 billion in 2015 to finance businesses tackling social and environmental problems.
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Backed by a roster of multi-billion-dollar media companies in Europe, Asia and the U.S. as its limited partners, their firm operates independently (and focuses on financial return) but aims to provide strategic value to portfolio companies and insight into the future for its LPs.
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"These findings may temper expectations about the financial return on investment that wellness programs can deliver in the short term," conclude the study's authors, Dr. Zirui Song, a health policy researcher at Harvard Medical School, and Katherine Baicker, dean of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
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Asked on Friday whether the more pessimistic outlook for this year might lead Alibaba to scale back on such projects, Ms. Wu, the chief financial officer, said the company evaluated them not on their financial return, but according to other metrics, such as the number of users they attract.
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"For a long time they struggled to get off the ground, because a lot of times it was tough to find ways for the financial investor and the pharmaceutical company to both get what they wanted": a good financial return for the former, and "optionality" on their pipelines for the latter.
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The Associated Press says that the couple realized that if they pickled some their vegetables—okra, carrots, peaches and those unbelievable beets—they might have a better financial return, earn enough to cover the costs of their farm, and stop having to throw so much old produce to their neighbors' cows.
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The importance of Tuesday's maiden Falcon Heavy flight is less about the immediate financial return for SpaceX and more about what it signifies vis-à-vis America's interest in space and the country's ability to leverage the free market system to develop the burgeoning space domain ahead of our peers.
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" The lawyer arguing the government's case, Stein-Erik Jahr Dahl, said in his closing statement, "The right to herd reindeer does not give Sara a right to a certain number of reindeer, nor a right to keep sufficient reindeer to have a financial return or to pursue reindeer herding as a full-time job.
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It's also Amazon wanted to be serious in the category, and I think Jamie took a view that, "Here's a chance for me to not only get a great financial return for investors and employees," and himself as founder, but to join arguably the best-run company, maybe in the world now, and to be a large important part of that.
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Even if you've been eyeing that Gucci bag in the window for what feels like forever, they call it an investment for a reason: Serious thought need to be put into what brands, trends, and styles are actually worth your hard-earned money — and will provide somewhat of a financial return should you choose to sell it down the line.
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"I'd say it's not until you get into a $0003 million-plus range that you'd start getting into properties that are mostly driven by their investment return," said Jim W. Hourdequin, managing director of Lyme Timber, in Hanover, N.H. Yet owning a 100- or 200-acre woodlot can make sense for someone who enjoys the land for reasons beyond its financial return, said Tom D. Martin, president of the American Forest Foundation.
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