If you take the long view, REITs with top-drawer properties and managements look most compelling.
Because of industry-specific tax regulations and entrenched managements, the deals are likely to be friendly.
Because they involve great risk, those managements got enormous reward for these innovative activities.
The government's current push, as the Jarvis contract shows, is private provision of services to school managements.
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An under-fire ambulance service has announced is to create new managements posts, a day after its chairwoman resigned.
There has been discussion of combinations and consolidation, including among the managements of the companies, but little action.
In fact, when we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
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In either case, managements of many publicly owned corporations, concerned over the stock market impact, would probably run their businesses differently.
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At annual meetings, managements would pass out written questions for analysts to ask.
Sweden creates energy for around 250, 000 homes and powers one-fifth of the district heating system, Swedish Waste Managements says.
But the managements of both societies say they are still set against demutualisation.
Both companies are proudly venerable and known to have conservative managements and cultures.
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With dividends more attractive, many managements have raised or initiated dividends payouts.
The trick is to find those companies that are good capital allocators with managements that understand the value of shareholder return.
"Managements, like the American public, have been adjusting their expectations, " Buffett said.
Today those things are more important than physical assets: managements and systems.
It was an example where it showed you how independent managements are.
In these industries, the best strategy and approach is to localize managements.
At least, in the financial sector, business activity is so volatile that managements are cagey enough not to give detailed quarterly or annual forecasts.
Nationalisation would probably also lead to the removal of both institutions' managements, and undermine the cosy ties the agencies have long had with Congress.
There are also signs that corporate managements have become believers again.
The 10 shop-in-shops that have been opened have exceeded managements expectations.
Managements are working to make their stock options pay off big.
But when managements say they don't want to sell equity because the stock is too cheap, I don't really know what "cheap" means in this context.
He said there were currently over a hundred rights managements organisation across the EU, and said that new laws were needed "to adapt to multi-territorial markets".
For the past 30 years, he's done a fine job of spotting smug, listless managements and slamming them around like losers in a pro wrestling match.
Cross-shareholdings first became prominent during a fright about hostile takeovers in the 1960s, so there is a chance that scared managements may now seek to rebuild them.
Sometimes managements can really do a lousy job of communicating.
If these managements show any traction in their reinvestment rate, they will qualify as safer havens than tech shares selling at 25 times earnings facing cutbacks in information technology spending.
It is the arrival on the scene of funds and partnerships willing to use their investments to challenge existing managements or to act as intermediaries to facilitate mergers and disposals.
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