The companies have a narrower concern — maximizing financial returns.
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So, it is not only about looking for financial returns.
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The financial returns from oil are higher than those from renewables.
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But impact investing proponents argue that analyzing financial returns alone is misguided.
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He notes a desire among clients for more than just financial returns.
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The shift in urban planning turns out to have robust financial returns.
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Another view sees financial returns to shareholders deriving from broader contributions to society.
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Most gauges of financial returns have been on a long decline (see chart).
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Yet investors in the mindfulness space typically aren't looking for just financial returns.
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Anything that reduces utilities' need to invest in more infrastructure threatens their financial returns.
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The chain's backers include investment funds who seek social as well as financial returns.
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Whatever the true level of pharmaceutical firms' financial returns, they could become juicier again.
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A surge in "ethical" investment, blending financial returns with doing good, will also help.
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Sustainable investing provides a potential solution to both social responsibility aspirations and financial returns.
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Finally, we are measured on financial returns, so we win only if you win!
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Suppose a new owner took aggressive actions to try to achieve immediate financial returns.
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"There is a trade-off between financial returns and social impact," the report concludes.
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Higher financial returns in America, Europe and Japan will pull capital away from emerging economies.
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Investing for impact isn't likely to diminish your financial returns, as CNBC has previously reported.
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In some cases, this new breed of investor isn't particularly interested in financial returns, either.
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And they themselves operate in a competitive marketplace that is largely driven by financial returns.
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Originators sell off loans to third-party investors to isolate credit risk from financial returns.
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Its mission is purely financial returns, but unlike GV, CapitalG focuses on later-stage startups.
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That is not easy: how does an industry focused on financial returns go about gauging goodness?
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Companies that get acquired aren't chasing financial returns — they're going after results for the long haul.
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"Two of the five big strategic projects will already yield financial returns this year," Benalcazar said.
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They know that they will still earn very handsome financial returns even after paying their taxes.
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In fact, research has shown that companies with gender diversity in leadership experience greater financial returns.
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While traditional financial returns may well result, they cannot be the immediate driver for industry engagement.
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That money has different goals beyond pure financial returns and the value add is different from VCs.
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The company's newest financial results come after March — even private companies file financial returns annually in India.
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This is the communication by managements and boards of information needed by reasonable investors seeking financial returns.
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So there are and will continue to be big opportunities to make great impact and financial returns.
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However, institutional innovation policies are not optimized to foster innovation, but rather to maximize ownership and financial returns.
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But running a company that considers more than just financial returns can sometimes involve complex and difficult decisions.
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As the population starts living past 100, the drive for continued financial returns will be put under pressure.
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Strategy: The VC arm will continue to have dual focuses on financial returns and strategic value to Qualcomm.
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The eccentric billionaire tech CEO gave the project $2 million and asked for virtually nothing in financial returns.
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For the narrow set of companies engaged by these investors, evidence of positive financial returns began to emerge.
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If, by some miracle, they turn out well, they become more than the sum of their financial returns.
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"One is all the time looking at financial returns — that is not only what life is," he said.
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The concept is known as impact investing, in which investors consider social good in addition to financial returns.
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And like any VC fund, the goal of the fund in to make strong financial returns for investors.
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Another risk is that insurers and governments may push back on gene therapies' high prices, reducing financial returns.
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The figure includes several types of investment, from funds to foundations, which intend to generate social and financial returns.
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Maintaining timely approvals for new drugs is crucial both for getting new medicines to patients and ensuring financial returns.
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The technological push comes amid worries that U.S. shale gains are slowing as investors press for higher financial returns.
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Both airlines have promised a detailed breakdown of their digital data drives and the financial returns in the autumn.
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The bottom line: "These are examples of drugs where the financial returns absolutely appear to be there," Dusetzina said.
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Apple purportedly wants a 50-percent cut, and news-focused publications are none too happy about the financial returns.
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Before we invest in a sector, we try to identify companies best positioned to deliver strong, stable financial returns.
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It has also committed to reallocate capital to areas that deliver financial returns or use it to cut debt.
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The principle is structured around investing in assets that offer social or environmental benefits as well as financial returns.
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This framework aligns with the actual goals of the GND rather than distractions — like boosting financial returns on investment.
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His absence hasn't impacted Samsung's business, which has posted a series of record financial returns over the past year.
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The goal of interventions in this system is pretty simple: to increase the financial returns on clean energy investments.
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Now defence experts worry that investors are not seeking financial returns so much as insight into the plans of startups.
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The Bush administration had changed the guidance to compel pension fund managers to consider only financial returns when choosing investments.
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They used it as a mechanism to enter, learn and help develop the region's ecosystem while earning proper financial returns.
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Investing with an eye to environmental or social issues, not just financial returns, has become mainstream in the past decade.
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But increasingly investors are waking up to the fact that they can do good as well as achieving financial returns.
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Blended finance can also be used to generate financial returns on investments that would normally only yield less tangible benefits.
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If you can predict which lawsuits will succeed, you can ensure big financial returns for people who invest in litigation.
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Newmont's financial returns in recent years show its CEO, Gary Goldberg, is a "loser," Barrick CEO Mark Bristow told Reuters.
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Their perspective is often overshadowed in a sea of conversations about how to make better financial returns in the sector.
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Rise is the world's largest impact fund - funds that aim to deliver social or environmental benefits as well as financial returns.
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"Today's action by the CalPERS Board is more reflective of the financial returns they can expect in the future," Brown said.
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"We will continue to aggressively evaluate our store portfolio to ensure we're delivering the highest level of financial returns," Hourican said.
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But investing with an eye to environmental or social issues, not just financial returns, has become mainstream in the past decade.
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Private equity firms, infrastructure and pension funds have all viewed pipeline assets as attractive acquisitions because of their steady financial returns.
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Short-term interest rates and government-bond yields are the risk-free rates that form the basis of all financial returns.
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They modeled what the financial returns would look like with a six-month extension of monopoly pricing in proposed federal legislation.
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The McKinsey report concluded that "companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 21625 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians" and "companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are 2900 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians," among other eye-opening findings.
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Interest in impact investing, which marries social or environmental outcomes with financial returns, is growing fast, estimated to be worth $500 billion.
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Prosper, Lending Club and SoFi are crowdfunding companies, matching buyers with willing lenders to provide access to alternative methods of financial returns.
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Others, however, include philanthropic investment, where financial returns are sacrificed for greater social benefits; or less rigorous types of do-good investments.
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This isn't just a personal matter: Research has found that a more diverse staff is more likely to produce better financial returns.
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Evercore analysts said Walgreens could fund all or a majority of the transaction via debt, likely making the financial returns notably attractive.
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Its business model relies largely on patenting small tweaks to existing technologies, which multiplies financial returns with only minimal investment in research.
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Admittedly, Electronic Arts paid big for its mistake as the AAA release failed to produce the expected financial returns in the longterm.
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Chinese state-owned companies get additional work, and the many energy projects that are part of the deal offer strong financial returns.
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Mears said it would reallocate capital to areas of the business that deliver financial returns or use it to cut debt levels.
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The company recently clocked impressive financial returns — including a 500 percent jump in annual profit — as the strategy begins to pay off.
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"Across different benchmarks of ESG, companies that take it seriously are financially stronger and get higher financial returns in marketplace," Sarda said.
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Prosecutors claim those investors were defrauded by Shkreli, 22011, because of his allegedly misleading statements about his funds' assets and financial returns.
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Oh, and by the way, when the firm says "impact," it's not about a double or triple-bottom line, but pure financial returns.
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She has sought to make the case that placing more women in decision-making positions will lead to better performance and financial returns.
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Although sustainable investing has existed since the 1970s, the new wave of young investors are interested in more than just stable financial returns.
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The people who put their machines in Mr. Ng's data centers generally join mining pools, which smooth the financial returns of smaller players.
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The CRE plays a key role in setting tariffs for gas and power grids as well as the financial returns of grid operators.
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But she testified that in 2010 she took her clients away from Mr. Wyatt as his behavior and financial returns grew more erratic.
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While Flannery can create near-term value by focusing GE's business, he must look beyond immediate financial returns to build an enduring enterprise.
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Edtech represents a rising entry point across the region for impact investors thanks to its potential for both financial and non-financial returns.
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This of course raises the puzzle of why, if bias against women is punished through poor financial returns, it isn't expunged by market dynamics.
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But people involved in the Turner fund said they are less worried about financial returns than tackling an affordable housing shortage in big cities.
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Not only is there more opportunity for work and exposure in places like Shanghai and Seoul, but the financial returns are higher as well.
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Impact VCs are VCs first that intend to generate market-beating financial returns because of, not in spite of, an impact-oriented investment thesis.
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They allocate their funds for a spectrum of financial returns, ranging from commercial (VC returns) to sub-commercial (impact investing) to outright charitable donations.
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Musk instead kept his focus on the horizon, reassuring the analysts that Tesla expects good financial returns from its current car business in 2018.
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"Our financial returns are not yet where they need to be and do not reflect the group's earnings potential," Winters said in Friday's statement.
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Beyond the prospects of better financial returns, start-ups also see surviving the global marketplace as a test of their businesses' viability and resilience.
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"The financial returns were such that a few years ago I was planning to buy extra land to plant more baby corn," said Muthengi.
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Under this model, Hua Han will manage a much larger portion of the hospitals' operations and thus, is likely to achieve higher financial returns.
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The goal is for economists and researchers to work with investors to make decisions that benefit society in addition to scoring high financial returns.
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The Morningstar survey gave people either/or choices between two stocks with varying differences of the financial returns and sustainability ratings of each stock.
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Analysts say that the high financial returns that operators like Dong have had in recent years may eventually come under pressure as subsidies decline.
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This increases financial returns for biologic developers, but extending similar standards abroad would make many medicines unaffordable to millions of people throughout the world.
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While labels are looking to these investments for marketing rather than profits, a presence in food could offer some financial returns in the long run.
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It measures a charity's success not in financial returns, but rather by factors such as how much it costs the charity to save a life.
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In the business world 1403G has become widely admired for buying venerable firms and using debt and surgical cost-cuts to boost their financial returns.
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Our research and early-stage investment programs often generate significant positive return for the taxpayer, both in direct financial returns and in overall economic benefits.
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The SEC has so far slapped at least four companies with charges of offering unregistered securities and lying about their operations or expected financial returns.
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Medica stuck around the Obamacare marketplaces as big for-profit plans fled, scared away by dismal financial returns and uncertainty wrought by the Trump administration.
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McKinsey & Company research shows that companies in the top quartiles for gender and racial/ethnic diversity were more likely to have above average financial returns.
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Its partners are in Fenox funds to generate financial returns, but also to find technology and services that can help them with their own business.
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In pitching startups, Comcast Ventures emphasizes that while its mandate is to purely show financial returns, the fund can also leverage its parent Comcast Corp.
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Studies continue to show that companies with greater ethnic and racial diversity are 22019 percent more likely to have better financial returns than their competitors.
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"Instead, with a collective focus and diverse frontline representation, it could lead to long-term financial returns and profitability for all stakeholders," the proposal says.
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Hamadi said highlighting the financial returns of pastoralism - particularly for communities the herders pass through - was key to getting mayors on board with the corridor project.
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A higher proportion of women in business is associated with better financial returns, more creativity, and a safer work environment, according to scores of research studies.
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Deborah Winshel, boss of BlackRock Impact, points to the transfer of wealth to women and the young, whose investment goals, she says, transcend mere financial returns.
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Some family offices in Europe "see this as a region with good financial returns and want to plug in with someone who can help," he said.
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According to the NII, many private companies are moving away from offering such insurance because of the heavy logistics of inspecting farms and minimal financial returns.
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These firms are run like typical venture firms and are primarily driven to maximize financial returns, and the firm's partners are rewarded for making profitable investments.
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TPG raised $2 billion for the first Rise fund in 2017, a fund focused on impact investing which aims to benefit society while delivering financial returns.
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Pfund is founder of the venture capital firm DBL Partners which invests in companies looking to make positive social change, environmental improvements, and strong financial returns.
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Instead of focusing on financial returns or relying on failed ideas like public-private partnerships, the GND should be financed through public spending and nothing else.
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That and the prospect of large financial returns make it an attractive pitch to doctors, as they work to compete in a rapidly consolidating healthcare environment.
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Companies are also feeling pressure to diversify their boards from large investment firms, who see a positive correlation between diverse board selection and greater financial returns.
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The current, relatively low price of fossil fuels increases the need for legislation to trigger investment in renewables, since shareholders often focus on near-term financial returns.
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Pop star Taylor Swift pulled her music from the streaming service in 2014 and later partnered with Apple Music, as she demanded more financial returns for work.
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"The resulting volume demand will see the IQE owned world's largest VCSEL facility at Newport yield significant financial returns over the medium term," Peel Hunt analysts said.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry's controversial proposal to guarantee financial returns for coal-fired and nuclear power plants in some markets.
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The holding company, which is also managed by Faine, wants to focus on smaller stakes in bigger companies with potentially less political influence but higher financial returns.
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A 2015 McKinsey & Company report (Diversity Matters) found that private companies with more racial, ethnic and/or gender diversity were more likely to have higher financial returns.
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"Financial returns are simply the result of Apple's innovation, putting our products and customers first, and always staying true to our values," Cook said in the memo.
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Gucci and its rivals do not expect these investments to yield significant financial returns, for now, but they are seen as a way of enhancing their global brands.
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Executives expect customers to stay longer and spend more, driving twice the financial returns of typical Starbucks stores, which have average unit sales of about $1.6 million annually.
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Reports that U.S. shale producers are also struggling to continue raising output amid productivity problems and pressure from shareholders to improve financial returns have added to bullish sentiment.
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The $50 million bond is based on an "outcome payments" model — a concept where investors receive financial returns only on the successful and measurable completion of the objective.
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"These actions should allow us to continue our above-market growth and further improve our financial returns and capital efficiency," Chief Executive Feike Sijbesma said in a statement.
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Why it matters: The firm says it wants to dispel the perception that so-called "social impact investing" is just charity and can't lead to meaningful financial returns.
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But there is a remarkable cooling of the excitement thermometer, particularly from investors who were investing for financial returns rather than faith in blockchain as a decentralizing force.
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Over the past few years, investors have already begun to act as if they understand the importance of a broader set of interests beyond short-term financial returns.
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While it makes sense for Google to refocus on China given the economy there, search carries the risk of low financial returns while simultaneously being most sensitive area.
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Natalya Gart, Mr. Bedzhamov's counterpart with Russia's luge federation, acknowledged that involvement in sports could grant access to powerful circles, but she said that it rarely brought financial returns.
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Taxi drivers and those with interests in the industry staged often-violent demonstrations in protest at this "foreign" entrant that posed a threat to their businesses and financial returns.
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Why it matters: It's the latest sign that analysts see room for growth in the fracking-driven U.S. boom, even after years of surging output with mixed financial returns.
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In a recent survey by Morgan Stanley 84% of women said they were interested in "sustainable" investing, that is, targeting not just financial returns but social or environmental goals.
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She proposes corporate governance reform to give labor representatives a voice on corporate boards and to constrain executives from manipulating financial returns to maximize their income from stock options.
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"We're continuing to look for things customers love, can grow to be large and provide strong financial returns in the long run and can last for decades," he said.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. shale industry's sizzling growth rate likely peaked last year, according to a survey of major forecasters, cooled by investors demanding financial returns over increased oil output.
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Maintaining timely approvals for new products is crucial both for getting new medicines to patients and ensuring financial returns to drug companies, which work in decade-long product development cycles.
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In addition to financial returns, they want their money to drive positive changes in the world, but the options for achieving both concurrently is lacking, according to a UBS expert.
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Financial incentives in the form of tax cuts are less likely to spur additional star inventors as the private financial returns are already quite large, according to Bell and Chetty.
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I've also worked over the years with dozens of philanthropists and investors—those who put money into ventures that promise environmental and public health benefits in addition to financial returns.
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There has always been a pay gap between mothers and fathers, but it would be 15 percent smaller today if the financial returns to long hours hadn't increased, they found.
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In many professions, like law or finance, there are large financial returns to being able to drop everything at a moment's notice and be at a client's beck and call.
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Executives expect customers to stay longer and spend more at Reserve cafes, driving twice the financial returns of typical Starbucks stores, which have average unit sales of about $1.6 million annually.
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The concept of investing in assets that offer measurable social or environmental benefits as well as financial returns has come a long way from its modest roots in the early 2000s.
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The bond is an example of "impact investing", in which private investors seek out social and financial returns, and of "blended finance", in which public funds help them to do so.
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That support is part of a wider trend for investors to back businesses that seek to reduce gender inequality while generating financial returns, known as "gender lens" or "gender-smart" investing.
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Increasingly, impact investors and activists see women entrepreneurs in emerging markets as a vehicle for financial returns and as one of the most powerful levers for economic development and social change.
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Nancy Pfund is the founder and managing partner of DBL Partners, a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top- tier financial returns with meaningful social, environmental and economic returns.
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"If we do nothing, then investors will simply follow the market," with most seeking to maximize financial returns and only a small amount of money going into green infrastructure, she added.
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How the $183 billion group's own shareholders will benefit is unclear: Comcast's offer contains lots of detail about supporting creative industries and young people in Britain, but little about financial returns.
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It might be a hard sell to funnel money into something where you won't actively see financial returns, which is why founders should think of security as investments for the future.
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If those rulings had been left to stand, the documents (tax returns, financial returns, records of conversations) and testimony that would damage this president, perhaps fatally, would have immediately been produced.
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Remember, the problem is that battery operators are charging and discharging at the wrong times — they are optimizing for financial returns, which is not the same as optimizing for emissions reductions.
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The ongoing transition to renewable energy continues to provide investment opportunities that offer the potential to achieve a "double bottom line" of competitive financial returns along with direct and measurable environmental benefits.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - North American investors seeking to do good as well as make financial returns could be overlooking an untapped opportunity on their own doorstep - indigenous entrepreneurs.
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Last year, activist hedge funds began launching campaigns abroad to shake up management teams, prompt or interrupt mergers and generally get companies to improve financial returns, after U.S. markets became more challenging.
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Using trigonometry and shipping containers to estimate oil supply, prognosticating on financial returns by analyzing the number of cars in big box mart parking lots, and even surveying demolished houses after storms.
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Hacking into online retailers and financial institutions to steal credit-card and bank details may offer larger financial returns eventually, but selling the stolen data on the black market can be burdensome.
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How the $183 billion group's own shareholders will benefit is unclear: Comcast's offer contains lots of detail about supporting creative industries and young people in the UK, but little about financial returns.
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But attracting investment in many of the technologies remains challenging because of problems ranging from regulatory barriers to poor financial returns due to a low - or absent - price on carbon, Hepburn said.
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But attracting investment in many of the technologies remains challenging because of problems ranging from regulatory barriers to poor financial returns due to a low - or absent - price on carbon, Hepburn said.
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The report warns that the terror group may increasingly turn to human trafficking and kidnapping as a source of income as its financial returns from oil fields and taxation continue to drop.
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In visits to a dozen salons and in conversations with former cosmetology students, we heard a variety of opinions about how much training the profession requires and the financial returns it offers.
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"Financial returns are simply the result of Apple's innovation, putting our products and customers first, and always staying true to our values," Cook told Apple employees in a memo marking the occasion.
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The Rise Fund, which counts Irish rock star Bono among its co-founders, aims to achieve "measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns", UBS said in a statement on Monday.
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We're not an impact investor, we're a for-profit investor that doesn't compromise on financial returns because ... But we're very genuinely focused on things that we think are big ideas and big solutions.
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LONDON/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From renewable energy companies to social housing funds, investors around the world are increasingly drawn to organizations that offer social or environmental as well as financial returns.
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The growing popularity of "impact investment" - where investors seek social and environmental benefits alongside financial returns – could be a boon for social enterprises that help refugees and migrants, said Docking, head of RIN.
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Impact investing - which promises social and environmental benefits as well as financial returns - is growing, but the difficulty of measuring how much good it achieves has caused some major investors to be cautious.
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Last week, the foundation announced that it would commit $1 billion to investments that "earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well," as it said in a news release.
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Amid an increasing number robo-investors like Betterment, Stash, and Robinhood, a new San Francisco-based fintech startup called Grow is entering the fray to compete based on investment type, not only financial returns.
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US executive compensation has soared as corporate governance shifted toward the shareholder model, under which managers are supposed to maximize financial returns for shareholders and not to reward stakeholders such as workers or customers.
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And even now, with new models of copyright-respectful consumption such as streaming, the sales and financial returns for the recording industry, and especially the artists, have not recovered to their pre-digital levels.
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Impact investing, which promises social and environmental benefits as well as financial returns, has at least $228 billion in assets, according to data from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), but leaves a hole.
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Firms that demonstrate an understanding of the potential risks and opportunities posed by environmental, social and governance factors are both less likely to experience catastrophic loss and more likely to generate sustainable financial returns.
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Sensyne works with British National Health Service trusts in different areas and they are given an equity stake in the company, which means value created provides financial returns to the state-run health system.
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Having a robust portfolio of income streams requires habitually balancing things that bring short-term benefit (fast revenue) with longer-term plays (which build your brand and deliver financial returns further down the road).
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In the first market report commissioned by UBS and Art Basel, she estimated art sales hit $56.6 billion last year, with the rich eager to place cash at a time of low financial returns.
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" And nearly half of fraud victims, compared with less than a third of general investors, agreed that "the most profitable financial returns are often found in investments that are not regulated by the government.
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The financial returns are less important to her, she insisted, than freshening a brand that, with its cruises and oft-deserted storefronts, some considered as stale as an outdated package of SandwichThins (three SmartPoints).
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Only two new classes of antibiotics have been introduced in the last 20 years — most new drugs are variations on existing ones — and the diminishing financial returns have driven most companies from the market.
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The PIF said its Adeptio deal was part of efforts to boost investment in non-oil sectors and diversify its portfolio geographically and across asset classes, while securing long-term financial returns for Saudi Arabia.
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The funds, which promise social and environmental benefits as well as financial returns, could do more good if proper international standards were in place, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in a report.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Conservative Party of Canada outpaced the governing Liberal party of Canada by C$0163 million ($2016 million) in second-quarter fundraising, financial returns showed on Wednesday, ahead of an October national election.
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This puts the startups they underwrite under pressure to get products to market quickly and generate financial returns, and makes it highly unlikely that we'll get to Level 4 or 5 with VC-backed science alone.
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"It is without question the extraordinary transformation and outstanding financial returns that TWE has achieved, have been driven by Michael's leadership over the past five and a half years," Chairman Paul Rayner said in a statement.
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The latest quarterly financial returns show the Conservative Party of Canada raised C$2421 million in contributions from some 53,000 individual donors in the second quarter, a record for the April-June period, the party said.
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That's what McKinsey found when it looked at tech companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity, and saw that these more diverse companies are 35 percent more likely to have higher financial returns.
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TEL AVIV, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Bridges Israel said on Thursday it has $60 million in commitments from investors for its impact investment fund, which aims for positive social and environmental impact, in addition to generating financial returns.
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Corporate strategics, not to be confused with dedicated funds focused on financial returns like a traditional venture investor like Google Ventures, often care less about return on investment, and more about a startup's focus, and sector specificity.
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While the company, obviously, monitors successes in concrete terms like financial returns and trackable social engagement, Black finds comfort in the overlap with what his team is doing and its reflection in the fashion scene at large.
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Shawn Lesser, a co-founder of Big Path Capital, an investment bank focused on impact investments, which seek social as well as financial returns, said interest in agriculture had surpassed that of clean energy and affordable housing.
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With the Jobs Act, companies could raise money on sites like Mr. Feit's and offer investors an actual ownership stake, with the promise of financial returns — turning crowdfunding into a much more serious business, than, say Kickstarter.
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Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.), would end the practice of self-bonding, in which a mining company can comply with federal law by certifying that it can clean up its mines in the future using its own financial returns.
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So Grand Central is meant to make money for Milstein, but Harrigan said the model gives him the freedom to look beyond financial returns and also think about a broader mission of helping the New York tech scene.
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The recession may have compounded my family's economic insecurity, but I also made the conscious decision to take out loans for a college I couldn't afford in order to become a journalist, a profession with minimal financial returns.
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Why it matters: Kleiner Perkins' investments in green tech were famously a bust, but according to partner Dave Mount, G2VP will focus on the areas that did deliver financial returns — applications of digital tech to sustainability and heavy industry.
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I don't know whether the makers of Interstellar, Gravity and Alien Covenant were directly influenced, but they ask many of the same questions — not quite as smartly or effectively, but usually with a bigger budget and more impressive financial returns.
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Similarly, the financial returns to automation flow to profitable firms and their shareholders, who not only usually live apart from the factories being automated but who save at high rates, contributing to weak demand across the economy as a whole.
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"In the recent period, Daesh has gone back to using government factories in the areas it controls - like Mosul - for financial returns," Huchaimi said, but added that oil smuggling from Syrian refineries remains the group's primary source of international financing.
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The enhanced VC opportunity for these funds is that if you can catalyze change on first-order problems using donation dollars, you're ideally positioned to reap financial returns by backing the entrepreneurs and businesses that will best serve newly opened marketplaces.
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"AXA not only sees this as an opportunity to invest in a company that will bring financial returns, they also see us as a great partner to accelerate distribution of insurance products in Africa," AIG CEO Sacha Poignonnec told TechCrunch.
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This permit-rationing process generated extraordinary financial returns to the owners of the permits — who, in most cases, were not the actual drivers of the cabs — but also ensured that cabs were harder to find than they should have been.
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Regardless of the financial returns, academic investment in the microbiome is booming, with 8,800 scientific papers published in leading journals since 2006, half of them in the last two years, according to the Web of Science, a Thomson Reuters database.
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New roofs and insulation have great financial returns, said Jessica Lautz, managing director of survey research at the National Association of Realtors, which teamed up last year with the National Association of the Remodeling Industry to determine the value of renovations.
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The Invest Your Values search tools, created by As You Sow, a nonprofit that promotes corporate social responsibility, "offer investors insight into the environmental and social impact of their portfolios, alongside traditional metrics like financial returns," according to a press release.
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Equipped with up to $300 million in capital for operations and investments, the new Flourish will continue to invest around the Network's core mission of backing companies with a dual focus on making a social impact and achieving quality financial returns.
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Analysts at Berenberg said it would make sense for both Tata Steel and Thyssen's Steel Europe to sell shares in an initial public offering (IPO) of any joint entity because that could translate into significant financial returns for the parent companies.
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Pension funds that worry more about environmental and other social causes for their investments rather than the financial returns of a company put those who depend upon them for their future retirements at risk while they play social do-gooder.
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Mr. Walker decided it was time to bring "fresh eyes" to endowment management and consider not just financial returns, but also social impact, as he wrote last week in "Unleashing the Power of Endowments," an open letter explaining the foundation's decision.
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Previous attempts by Chinese companies to penetrate American financial services have come under regulatory scrutiny or struggled to generate hoped-for financial returns, though Cowen's chairman, Peter Cohen, said he viewed his deal as "pretty benign" from a regulatory standpoint.
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Thanks to mounting internal contradictions and operational stress, central banks are increasingly unwilling (like the Federal Reserve) or unable (like the People's Bank of China, the Bank of Japan and, soon, the European Central Bank) to borrow financial returns from the future.
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The recent sale of General Motors' European business could substantially improve free cash flow, margins and financial returns for the carmaker, according to analysts at JPMorgan, who reiterated an overweight rating and increased their 12-month price target to $20183 from $46.
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Investors who participated in that first Uber funding round earned staggering financial returns, bragging rights within the industry and front row seats to the rise of a company that would go on to shake up transportation and labor markets around the world.
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It could also help answer another criticism often thrown at drug firms: that they do not invest enough in areas where medical need is great but financial returns are unattractive, such as rare cancers, new antibiotics and medicines for children or poor countries.
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From the discussions and offhand conversations with entrepreneurs at the conference, McCluney says her takeaway was in witnessing how the business ideas of Black women in Detroit may not garner the same returns that are valued in other tech spaces (mainly financial returns).
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Mears said it would reallocate capital to areas that deliver financial returns or use it to cut debt, after reporting its average net debt for the year was 20.7530 million pounds ($150 million), missing a target it had set of 110 million pounds.
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"The investment enables Tencent to explore cooperation opportunities with the company on mobile games publishing and newsfeed as well as to share its financial returns from the growth of its businesses and monetization in the future," Tencent said in an emailed statement.
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" Patrick, who calls himself "a capitalist but not a market fundamentalist," told me that he loved the work of managing Bain's Double Impact fund, which, according to Bain, aims to "deliver both competitive and financial returns and meaningful, measurable and environmental good.
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The reason: they both invest in so-called deep tech, and they meet routinely with startups whose central focus is on making the world habitable for generations of people to come — as well as trying to produce outsize financial returns, of course.
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The GV portfolio includes investments in a wide range of areas, such as: GV has always said that it's meant to be a pure venture firm, driven by financial returns rather than to invest in start-ups that help Google's other business units.
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Short-term bond yields recently surpassed their longer-term counterparts, a trend that points to an expected decline in financial returns over time and, more alarmingly, has preceded just about every recession since World War II, with around a 1 1/2 year lag.
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"Against this difficult revenue picture, we are engaged in a critical review of our business, the goal of which is to improve revenues and to reduce costs so as to maintain a strong financial position and to deliver acceptable financial returns," the carrier said.
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Critics point out that ISAs are designed not just to pay back tuition but to maximize financial returns—to the school and its venture capital backers, as well as other investors who might buy an interest in individual ISAs as a new type of asset.
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Too often they are mistakenly lumped in the general impact investing category, a very broad space of investors — from foundations to private equity to wealth management — that seek social or environmental impact, but for near-market, sub-market or even net-zero financial returns.
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If a museum is determined to invest in startups, for the sake of financial returns, it could invest in an existing seed fund managed by experts with a track record and the resources to assist the company in its growth, or co-invest alongside them.
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"The investment enables Tencent to explore cooperation opportunities with the company on mobile games publishing and newsfeed as well as to share its financial returns from the growth of its businesses and monetization in the future," a Tencent spokesperson told Reuters in a statement.
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"To persuade the biggest institutional investors to commit their funds to tackling some of the world's most urgent challenges we need to be as confident about the impact returns as we are about the financial returns – fuzzy thinking just won't cut it," added Bono.
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Over 10 months, in visits to a dozen salons and in conversations with 37 former Iowa cosmetology students — and an additional 25 in other states — we heard a variety of opinions about how much training the profession requires and the financial returns it offers.
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VCs acknowledge that diversity within a firm leads to better financial returns, and some founders have even made rumblings in recent months that they would look down on firms — and perhaps walk away from deals — that have a team that does not reflect some sort of diversity.
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Borjas notes that Mexican immigrants are "disproportionately drawn from the low-skill workforce," and offers one explanation: the financial returns on college education are higher, relatively speaking, in Mexico than in the U.S., and so those without degrees have a greater incentive to cross the border.
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Any country from the Middle East that wants to change money that&aposs generated just from harvesting natural resources to investing in what could be futuristic technologies that not only could make financial returns but could maybe bring their country into positive things, I&aposm supportive of.
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ONE IS – THE BIGGEST ONE IS WITH THE KIND OF FINANCIAL RETURNS THAT THE QUALCOMM BOARD HAS DELIVERED TO THEIR SHAREHOLDERS OVER THE LAST FIVE OR TEN YEARS, NO INDEX FUND, NOR ANYONE ELSE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO THINK HARD ABOUT WHY COULDN'T THIS BE DONE BETTER.
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The policy advisory from the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is the first significant effort by the federal government to crack down on so-called coal self-bonding, in which companies pledge that they can afford cleanups by relying solely on their financial returns.
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S.-based investors, but it said that the token is open to accredited investors in the U.S.. Unlike traditional LPs, who wait on the fund's lifecycle to see financial returns unless they can sneak a secondary share sale, SparkLabs plans to introduce liquidity by listing the token on security exchanges in the future.
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"The Public Investment Fund is focused on achieving attractive long-term financial returns from its investments at home and abroad, as well as supporting the kingdom's Vision 2030 strategy to develop a diversified economy," Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince and chairman of the Public Investment Fund, said in a statement.
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In September, in an attempt to stave off those powerful market trends, Mr. Perry asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees regional electricity markets, to consider guaranteeing financial returns for any power plant that could stockpile 90 days' worth of fuel on-site, which could include many coal and nuclear plants.
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The oil rig count, an early indicator of future output, dropped by an average of 22020 rigs in 2848 after rising 22021 rigs in 2018 as independent exploration and production (E&P) companies cut spending on new drilling to meet shareholder demand for better financial returns in a low energy price environment.
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The oil rig count, an early indicator of future output, dropped by an average of 22020 rigs in 2848 after rising 22021 rigs in 2018 as independent exploration and production (E&P) companies cut spending on new drilling in response to investor demands to improve financial returns in a low energy price environment.
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Some advocates for Chinese direct investment see the new rules as plain racist, treating all Chinese the same — whether they hail from mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan — and see the federal government as making no distinction between Xi Jinping's authoritarian government and a wealthy businessman merely seeking to invest in financial returns.
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But the aid worker, Hashim Aslami, was adamant, arguing to farmers and his bosses alike that even though harvesting the spice can be tricky and time consuming, the financial returns can be substantial: Known as "red gold," saffron can sell for as much as $224 a pound on the local market and much more elsewhere.
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Then, in September, Mr. Perry proposed that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission adopt a rule that would increase financial returns for power plants capable of stockpiling at least 90 days' worth of fuel on-site — a plan that would effectively subsidize struggling coal and nuclear power plants, particularly in areas where Mr. Murray operates.
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But the notion that libraries aren't worth their value to taxpayers—one that fails to take into account the financial returns of a library and expenses of buying these items on one's own—fails to address the vast importance a library has on its community as a physical space open to anyone in the public.
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Not only is the news a blow to President Xi Jinping's administration amid the nation's attempts to make China a respected player on the international financial stage, MSCI's decision to upgrade Pakistan—a country more known for its history of political strife rather than financial returns—to EM status likely further rubbed salt into China's wound.
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Barclays said that the change in structure will "develop the client franchise and improve our financial returns", and it comes just a week after the bank's newly-appointed global co-heads of debt capital markets and risk solutions - Travis Barnes, Mark Lewellen and Jill Schwartz - restructured the bank's regional business, adding responsibilities to various team members.
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The Nature Conservancy will manage the land, known as the Cumberland Forest Project, for a decade, she said and will provide investors financial returns from three sources: revenue from certified sustainable timber sales, carbon offset credits and the eventual sale of the land, at the end of the period, with long-term or permanent management restrictions in place.
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Gary Dushnitsky, associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the London Business School, who has studied the role of corporations in venture investing, said some corporates invest in start-ups with an explicit goal of generating financial returns — with the belief that they are better at evaluating and nurturing start-ups and therefore should make superior returns.
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"Impact investing makes sense to investors because it allows them to diversify their portfolios with a new asset class… As years pass and more actors are participating in impact investing, this inspiration is paired with results that show that positive impact can be generated alongside financial returns," said Durren Shahnaz, founder of Impact Investment Exchange, a platform that helps social enterprises raise funds.
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In September, Mr. Perry warned that the loss of these plants could threaten the "reliability and resiliency of our nation's grid" and asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees regional electricity markets, to guarantee financial returns for power plants that can stockpile at least 90 days' worth of fuel on-site — which, in effect, meant propping up uncompetitive coal and nuclear units.
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"While the idea that the only job of a company is to maximize financial returns to shareholders is still fairly entrenched, I think we have the wind at our backs in the form of our younger generations, who have higher expectations," said Deval Patrick, managing director of Boston-based Bain Capital's Double Impact business, and a former governor of Massachusetts.
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"Companies need to build a gender diverse, high-potential pipeline not just because it's socially a good thing to do, but because it's good business and it's great for financial returns," she said, pointing to the Peterson Institute for International Economics study that found that companies with at least 30% female leaders had net profit margins up to six percentage points higher than companies with no women in the top ranks.
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In fact, the great precedent for it is the phenomenon of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which demonstrated (notably, with the same sort of astronomical financial returns as we find in this sale) that what we actually know about Leonardo can be completely disconnected from what we can turn him into (whatever we may not know about Leonardo, one thing we do know about him is that he has absolutely nothing in common with Dan Brown's version of him).
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SAO PAULO, Sept 2585 (Reuters) - * Brazil's 22019/220 center-south sugar output seen at 25.9 million tonnes versus 26.5 million tonnes in 2018/19, says sugar group Biosev * Brazil's 2019/20 center-south (CS) ethanol output seen at 20193 billion liters versus 30.9 billion liters in 2018/19 - Biosev * Biosev sees Brazil's CS sugar output growing to 28 million tonnes in 2020/21; ethanol output seen stable at 32.1 billion liters * Biosev sees Brazil's 2020/21 CS cane crop at 596 million tonnes versus 585 million tonnes seen for 2019/20 * Biosev sees ethanol continuing to give better financial returns than sugar for mills in Brazil in the next season (Reporting by Marcelo Teixeira)
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