They try to deliver to an institutional investor base that requires blue chip, steady state performance.
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Ms. STEELMAN: Liz, we--I--I'm an institutional investor as the state treasurer and we made that choice.
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To take part, you have to be an institutional investor with at least a hundred million dollars in assets.
For those following the NIR Group saga, the litigation is notable because it unveils Highmount as an institutional investor of NIR Group.
Once a decision is reached by an institutional investor to allocate money to private equity, there are a number of different options available.
Some hope that Bear will still ensnare an institutional investor but stake-building on this scale by someone of Mr Lewis's pedigree is a valuable boost to confidence.
StoneRidge, an institutional investor in Charter, accused the two vendors of participating in a "scheme to defraud" investors and now wants the right to sue them for remediation.
ETFs, meanwhile, have opened up new areas for retail investors, areas like overseas markets or commodities that were once difficult to invest in if you weren't extremely wealthy or an institutional investor.
"An advantage of a PIPE is that an institutional investor can take a large position in an illiquid stock, " said Byron Roth, chairman of Roth Capital Partners, which raised the most money in PIPE deals last year.
An example of this new approach was the appointment of Ralph Whitworth, an institutional investor with a reputation for activism, to the board of Apria Healthcare last year and more recently as chairman of Waste Management, a troubled company.
In May 2011 David Einhorn, president of the hedge fund Greenlight Capital - an institutional investor in Microsoft - said Mr Ballmer should step down as chief executive after IBM and Apple had surpassed Microsoft in terms of market value.
Lead plaintiffs are supposed to hire attorneys and oversee the litigation on behalf of the rest of the class, although in practice it usually works the other way around, with the lawyers using portfolio-monitoring software to identify an institutional investor with a loss and then recruiting that investor to represent the class.
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This is critical analysis for any online game company, PC hardware maker, components maker, service provider, or institutional investor with an eye on China.
It will take some time to see whether the split will result in more institutional ownership of Citigroup shares, but as an individual investor, I would not be happy to get 20 shares for the 200 I had originally purchased.
Because stock ownership, even by large institutional investors, is so widely dispersed, the potential return an investor can get by being an activist shareholder is too low to justify spending his or her time and money on efforts to hold down unnecessary pay and spending.
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