Until the formation of the Private Equity Growth Capital Association in 2007, the US private equity industry had not engaged in coordinated lobbying efforts in Washington DC.
They are quite content to have their capital embodied in physical goods destined for future sale, in shares in industrial undertakings, in real estate which brings in rentals, or in loans to active men engaged in industry and commerce.
It is not surprising that independent fiduciaries may be engaged in unsavory industry practices since often these firms are owned, controlled or have business relationships with parties involved in financial services that regularly engage in wrongdoing.
That decision seems to be a knee-jerk reaction based on an emotional response to the spill, and made without a full appreciation of the consequences which will adversely impact tens of thousands of hard working people who are engaged in the industry.
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The Market Vectors Global Agribusiness ETF (amex:MOO) attempts to replicate the performance of the DAXglobal Agribusiness Index, 40 companies worldwide engaged in the agriculture industry.
The Index is a rules-based, modified global-capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of a global universe of listed companies engaged in the solar energy industry.
At more than 150, 000 members, the Innovation Movement brings together an engaged community not just of industry professionals and entrepreneurs but of all citizens who believe innovation is critical to American global leadership and economic growth.
Both companies have also been engaged in the rapid consolidation of the industry.
Other than JetBlue 's much publicized ice storm fiasco in February, customers seem to be engaged in a general rage against the industry machine.
If people start getting engaged with the issue, the insurance industry will begin to come up with policies, safe in the knowledge that the catastrophic costs will be covered by the state.
Other than JetBlue 's (nasdaq: JBLU - news - people ) much publicized ice storm fiasco in February, customers seem to be engaged in a general rage against the industry machine.
Its leading powers colonized half the world, and engaged in military rivalries that produced a thriving arms industry.
Team Active has been engaged in a desperate plea for help in an industry that seems to give birth to a new ETF every week, making them costly, and as outdated as the mutual index fund.
As a mutual fund industry whistleblower from decades ago and well-known industry investigator, over the years I have occasionally heard from employees of investment firms engaged in wrongdoing who want to come clean.
And a more engaged employee base has a number of benefits that are essential in the restaurant industry.
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As a result, researchers around the world are engaged in a search for the most efficient way to take the heat off the chip industry.
The conduct engaged in by MSSB in this case represents an unfair method of competition in the securities industry precisely because it attempted, either explicitly, implicitly or through nefarious and surreptitious means, to impose upon Fidelity, a non-Protocol firm, rules of commerce by which it never agreed to be bound.
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The conduct engaged in by MSSB in this case represents an unfair method of competition in the securities industry precisely because it attempted, either explicitly, implicitly or through nefarious and surreptitious means, to impose upon Fidelity, a non-Protocol firm, mles of commerce by which it never agreed to be bound.
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When they try to persuade investors, and often themselves, that synergies abound (that two and two equals not merely five but six or more) in their takeovers of firms engaged in activities that they know next to nothing about, companies prefer such euphemisms as multi-industry business or non-related diversification.
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