We understand, too, that a small investment now pays rich dividends in the future.
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Even Bank Vontobel, a private bank with a small investment-banking division, has been feeling the pinch.
Belgium's Banque Bruxelles Lambert acquired an interest in United City Bank, a small investment bank well regarded for its research.
Given the hundreds of billions of dollars in play here each and every year, a small investment has a very high return.
The new branding connects EWC with Gen Y culture and youthful consumers searching for a little self pampering for a small investment.
Within a few months and after a small investment, we were among the first utilities to deliver a common standard for Green Button in California.
Thus the fund made a small investment in a company called Cybiko, whose wireless game and e-mail device was a hit with U.S. kids last Christmas.
There are dozens of these enterprises around now, some offering Y Combinator-style three-month boot camps, along with a small investment stake, others providing cheap space and access to advisors, many of which are housed at or sponsored by universities.
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China Railway pledges to assist Crystallex to retire some notes and make a small equity investment in Crystallex.
The SBA, which is a federal government agency, licensed L Capital in 2004 as a small business investment company, backing Leitersdorf through the purchase or guarantee of various securities.
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You could, with a relatively small investment, help put people back to work and, by the way, we could save on our energy bills and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we're sending into the atmosphere.
With no state income tax and only a small one on investment income, Florida is a popular offshore haven for full-time live-aboards.
The one, very modestly encouraging sign is a small upturn in investment in computer equipment and software, though this comes after nearly two years of decline.
She worked as a lawyer at Wall Street firm Skadden, Arps and then as a venture capitalist at GE Equity in Hong Kong, leaving in 1999 to run a small responsible-investment private equity fund, Maven International, in the city.
Small firms account for only a small proportion of the economy and a correspondingly small proportion of investment and of research-and-development expenditure.
Adam Posen, an MPC member, believes that some of the economy's weakness is down to a shortfall of small-business investment linked to a dearth of credit.
It is a relatively small real-estate investment trust with hotels that seem a good fit for private buyers.
This is no small investment, particularly for a relatively small company.
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However, on a dollar for dollar basis, a mobile website, not an app, might be the best investment for a small company.
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The second roundtable, A Spotlight on Small Business Investment Companies and Their Role in the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, examined SBICs.
Gold should be a small part of your investment portfolio and nothing beats keeping tabs on your investments and the markets themselves.
The price of the information is a small proportion of that investment.
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Although the two patterns were given a small weight from an investment perspective, these patterns helped us to have our finger ready on the trigger to take partial profits.
If the client wanted more help, Schwab later punted him off to a small army of 400 investment advisers, the independent financial planners who passed Schwab's sniff test for fee-based services and unbiased service and who agreed to pay referral fees for the clients.
Last August at the White House Rural Economic Forum, President Obama announced a new commitment to invest in rural businesses through the Small Business Investment Company, a program at no cost to taxpayers.
The establishment of a registered legal entity, and the investment of at least a small amount of capital, denotes a level of commitment and permanence that a rep office does not.
Yet many analysts, including Mr Posen, think the economy is being held back by a dearth of small-business investment.
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