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Lightbank, the seed fund created by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, is investing $1.5 million in Benzinga.com, a Michigan-based real-time financial news site with trading tips, as well as aggregated content from other sites such as TheStreet.com and WSJ.com, parent site of this blog.
“We like the proposition of an actionable trading information network, and we like the entrepreneurs behind Benzinga,” said Lightbank partner Paul Lee, who joined the fund earlier this year. “We think there has to be a certain brand connotation with these kinds of sites and we see that in Benzinga’s founder.”
Mr. Lee is referring to Jason Raznick, president and co-founder of Benzinga.com, a former associate at Fortress Investment Group and financial news writer who says he bootstrapped his way through the first five months of Benzinga.com.
The site, which launched in early 2010, offers mostly free financial news content as well as a variety of subcription products targeted at traders. Mr. Raznick says the site sees between two and three million page views a month and that the company is already cash flow positive, with the bulk of its revenue coming from advertising.
“I think our site is different from other sites because we’re not saying, go do this in the market, or go buy that stock. We’re offering analysis and saying, if you believe this, here are some ways to do it,” Mr. Raznick says. He says he plans to continue to grow the company, which currently has between 20 and 25 employees, and that future build-outs may include more video products on the Web site.
For Lightbank, the investment is a pivot from the seed fund’s focus on daily deals and social media management start-ups. In the past, the fund has invested in companies like Betterfly.com, a site for listing and finding professional services; Sprout Social (see coverage here), which lets clients access a single dashboard to retrieve data from their company’s Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts; and most recently, Gtrot, which mines users’ social networks like Facebook and Foursquare to help them make plans while traveling.
The Lightbank fund, which Lefkofsky and Keywell formed in the spring of 2010 following the wild success of daily deals site Groupon, has committed to invest $100 million over 10 years. Partner Mr. Lee says the group has invested in 18 start-ups to date.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Atlantic International Partnership Headlines:Groupon Founders Turn To Financial News With Benzinga Investment
http://altlanticinternationalpartnership.net/2011/06/atlantic-international-partnership-headlinesgroupon-founders-turn-to-financial-news-with-benzinga-investment/
Lightbank, the seed fund created by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, is investing $1.5 million in Benzinga.com, a Michigan-based real-time financial news site with trading tips, as well as aggregated content from other sites such as TheStreet.com and WSJ.com, parent site of this blog.
“We like the proposition of an actionable trading information network, and we like the entrepreneurs behind Benzinga,” said Lightbank partner Paul Lee, who joined the fund earlier this year. “We think there has to be a certain brand connotation with these kinds of sites and we see that in Benzinga’s founder.”
Mr. Lee is referring to Jason Raznick, president and co-founder of Benzinga.com, a former associate at Fortress Investment Group and financial news writer who says he bootstrapped his way through the first five months of Benzinga.com.
The site, which launched in early 2010, offers mostly free financial news content as well as a variety of subcription products targeted at traders. Mr. Raznick says the site sees between two and three million page views a month and that the company is already cash flow positive, with the bulk of its revenue coming from advertising.
“I think our site is different from other sites because we’re not saying, go do this in the market, or go buy that stock. We’re offering analysis and saying, if you believe this, here are some ways to do it,” Mr. Raznick says. He says he plans to continue to grow the company, which currently has between 20 and 25 employees, and that future build-outs may include more video products on the Web site.
For Lightbank, the investment is a pivot from the seed fund’s focus on daily deals and social media management start-ups. In the past, the fund has invested in companies like Betterfly.com, a site for listing and finding professional services; Sprout Social (see coverage here), which lets clients access a single dashboard to retrieve data from their company’s Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts; and most recently, Gtrot, which mines users’ social networks like Facebook and Foursquare to help them make plans while traveling.
The Lightbank fund, which Lefkofsky and Keywell formed in the spring of 2010 following the wild success of daily deals site Groupon, has committed to invest $100 million over 10 years. Partner Mr. Lee says the group has invested in 18 start-ups to date.
Lightbank, the seed fund created by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, is investing $1.5 million in Benzinga.com, a Michigan-based real-time financial news site with trading tips, as well as aggregated content from other sites such as TheStreet.com and WSJ.com, parent site of this blog.
“We like the proposition of an actionable trading information network, and we like the entrepreneurs behind Benzinga,” said Lightbank partner Paul Lee, who joined the fund earlier this year. “We think there has to be a certain brand connotation with these kinds of sites and we see that in Benzinga’s founder.”
Mr. Lee is referring to Jason Raznick, president and co-founder of Benzinga.com, a former associate at Fortress Investment Group and financial news writer who says he bootstrapped his way through the first five months of Benzinga.com.
The site, which launched in early 2010, offers mostly free financial news content as well as a variety of subcription products targeted at traders. Mr. Raznick says the site sees between two and three million page views a month and that the company is already cash flow positive, with the bulk of its revenue coming from advertising.
“I think our site is different from other sites because we’re not saying, go do this in the market, or go buy that stock. We’re offering analysis and saying, if you believe this, here are some ways to do it,” Mr. Raznick says. He says he plans to continue to grow the company, which currently has between 20 and 25 employees, and that future build-outs may include more video products on the Web site.
For Lightbank, the investment is a pivot from the seed fund’s focus on daily deals and social media management start-ups. In the past, the fund has invested in companies like Betterfly.com, a site for listing and finding professional services; Sprout Social (see coverage here), which lets clients access a single dashboard to retrieve data from their company’s Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts; and most recently, Gtrot, which mines users’ social networks like Facebook and Foursquare to help them make plans while traveling.
The Lightbank fund, which Lefkofsky and Keywell formed in the spring of 2010 following the wild success of daily deals site Groupon, has committed to invest $100 million over 10 years. Partner Mr. Lee says the group has invested in 18 start-ups to date.
Altlantic International Partnership Headlines:What LinkedIn means for Facebook IPO
http://altlanticinternationalpartnership.net/2011/05/altlantic-international-partnership-headlineswhat-linkedin-means-for-facebook-ipo/
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — LinkedIn’s IPO was a hit Thursday, thanks to pent-up demand for shares in tech startups.
The other “big four” buzziest private companies — Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and Zynga — are keeping watch as they prepare their own public debuts.
LinkedIn shares opened at $83 each in its first day of trade, a whopping 84% above its initial offering price of $45 a share. Soon they crept up to $90. Then $105. Shares ultimately reached a high above $122 before closing near $94.
That values LinkedIn (LNKD) at about $9 billion — an eye-popping number that has implications beyond a single company.
“LinkedIn’s performance suggests there is going to be massive excitement around the likes of Facebook, which is even bigger,” said Max Wolff, senior analyst at GreenCrest Capital, a firm that tracks private companies.
“If you’re dying of thirst, you’ll accept iced tea even if you really want lemonade,” Wolff said. “It’s a perfect storm of fury, frustration, excitement and delay.”
In fact, the other big four companies “have far more sex appeal than LinkedIn right now,” said Debra Aho Williamson, principal social media analyst at eMarketer.
“The best thing about LinkedIn’s model is that they were patient about going public. The others are hot right now, but most of them are much newer,” she added.
When will the “big four” pull the trigger? Facebook hasn’t shown much interest in going public, though it said in January that it will begin filing public financial statements by April 2012. That’s likely to coincide with an IPO.
Twitter is in no rush to go public. Dick Costolo, now the company’s CEO, said at a conference last year that an IPO is “way out.”
Zynga has been a huge success thanks to FarmVille, FishVille and many other -Ville games on Facebook. But founder Mark Pincus has said he fears that going public and veering off his plan will bring “death by a thousand compromises.”
What those four companies lack, however, is multiple revenue streams. LinkedIn books money from job postings, premium subscriptions and advertising.
“The other four have only one thing going for them,” said Williams, the eMarketer analyst. “Facebook is ads. For Zynga it’s payments on virtual goods. And if your single revenue stream dries up, you’re in trouble.”
Facebook is valued at about $70 billion on SecondMarket, said Wedbush Securities analyst Lou Kerner, but he’s unsure of the other three valuations as no publicly available trades have occurred recently.
But according to some reports, Zynga and Twitter may each be valued at more than $7 billion, while some have suggested Groupon may be seeking a $25 billion valuation in an IPO.
SecondMarket doesn’t disclose pricing or implied valuation for the private companies traded in its exchange, but it released details on LinkedIn after its public debut.
LinkedIn shares began trading on SecondMarket in April 2010, and it ended the month at $14.50 a share. By March 2011, shares were at $35 each — less than half of LinkedIn’s closing price Thursday. A rep for SecondMarket said LinkedIn was its third most frequently traded stock.
SecondMarket said in a statement that the LinkedIn debut was a “much-needed boost for the IPO market.”
But it noted that the IPO “underscores the point that even for an exciting, innovative company like LinkedIn, it can take nearly a decade before the time is right to go public.”
That’s likely because Wall Street doesn’t want to get burned again.
Emerging from the dot-com bust’s shadow: The burst of the tech bubble drove a wedge between Wall Street and tech startups in the early 2000s, and Wolff said some investors may be trying to cash in on these companies after waiting too long.
“A lot of investors feel burned by tech,” Wolff said. “Now, the people who are late to the startup investment party are pushing their way in.”
But because Wall Street has been so wary of techs, investors now find themselves without much data and research on the startup sector.
“You’re guessing the unknown growth trajectory of a new business model,” Wolff said. “It’s the equivalent of counting beads in a jar with black tape over it.”
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — LinkedIn’s IPO was a hit Thursday, thanks to pent-up demand for shares in tech startups.
The other “big four” buzziest private companies — Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and Zynga — are keeping watch as they prepare their own public debuts.
LinkedIn shares opened at $83 each in its first day of trade, a whopping 84% above its initial offering price of $45 a share. Soon they crept up to $90. Then $105. Shares ultimately reached a high above $122 before closing near $94.
That values LinkedIn (LNKD) at about $9 billion — an eye-popping number that has implications beyond a single company.
“LinkedIn’s performance suggests there is going to be massive excitement around the likes of Facebook, which is even bigger,” said Max Wolff, senior analyst at GreenCrest Capital, a firm that tracks private companies.
LinkedIn more than doubles in IPO
LinkedIn is a strong company in its own right, Wolff noted, with three revenue streams and a 2010 profit of $15 million — but that’s not enough to explain Thursday’s wild ride. Instead, it’s about displaced demand for access to tech startups, particularly in the social media space.“If you’re dying of thirst, you’ll accept iced tea even if you really want lemonade,” Wolff said. “It’s a perfect storm of fury, frustration, excitement and delay.”
In fact, the other big four companies “have far more sex appeal than LinkedIn right now,” said Debra Aho Williamson, principal social media analyst at eMarketer.
“The best thing about LinkedIn’s model is that they were patient about going public. The others are hot right now, but most of them are much newer,” she added.
When will the “big four” pull the trigger? Facebook hasn’t shown much interest in going public, though it said in January that it will begin filing public financial statements by April 2012. That’s likely to coincide with an IPO.
0:00 / 5:07 LinkedIn IPO sets stage for Facebook
Second-buzziest behind Facebook is Groupon, which made waves by rejecting a Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) buyout offer rumored to have topped $6 billion. CEO Andrew Mason is reportedly shopping an IPO around the big banks, so Groupon may be the next to make its debut.Twitter is in no rush to go public. Dick Costolo, now the company’s CEO, said at a conference last year that an IPO is “way out.”
Zynga has been a huge success thanks to FarmVille, FishVille and many other -Ville games on Facebook. But founder Mark Pincus has said he fears that going public and veering off his plan will bring “death by a thousand compromises.”
What those four companies lack, however, is multiple revenue streams. LinkedIn books money from job postings, premium subscriptions and advertising.
“The other four have only one thing going for them,” said Williams, the eMarketer analyst. “Facebook is ads. For Zynga it’s payments on virtual goods. And if your single revenue stream dries up, you’re in trouble.”
Video: LinkedIn’s road to Wall Street
The secondary market effect: Still, investors eagerly await those big four IPOs. And in the meantime they’re actively trading shares on exchanges like SecondMarket, which booked $115.4 million in private-stock trades last quarter.Facebook is valued at about $70 billion on SecondMarket, said Wedbush Securities analyst Lou Kerner, but he’s unsure of the other three valuations as no publicly available trades have occurred recently.
But according to some reports, Zynga and Twitter may each be valued at more than $7 billion, while some have suggested Groupon may be seeking a $25 billion valuation in an IPO.
SecondMarket doesn’t disclose pricing or implied valuation for the private companies traded in its exchange, but it released details on LinkedIn after its public debut.
LinkedIn shares began trading on SecondMarket in April 2010, and it ended the month at $14.50 a share. By March 2011, shares were at $35 each — less than half of LinkedIn’s closing price Thursday. A rep for SecondMarket said LinkedIn was its third most frequently traded stock.
SecondMarket said in a statement that the LinkedIn debut was a “much-needed boost for the IPO market.”
But it noted that the IPO “underscores the point that even for an exciting, innovative company like LinkedIn, it can take nearly a decade before the time is right to go public.”
That’s likely because Wall Street doesn’t want to get burned again.
Emerging from the dot-com bust’s shadow: The burst of the tech bubble drove a wedge between Wall Street and tech startups in the early 2000s, and Wolff said some investors may be trying to cash in on these companies after waiting too long.
“A lot of investors feel burned by tech,” Wolff said. “Now, the people who are late to the startup investment party are pushing their way in.”
But because Wall Street has been so wary of techs, investors now find themselves without much data and research on the startup sector.
“You’re guessing the unknown growth trajectory of a new business model,” Wolff said. “It’s the equivalent of counting beads in a jar with black tape over it.”
Atlantic International Partnership Review: Is Japan Heading for Yet another ‘Lost Decade’?
http://www.your-story.org/atlantic-international-partnership-review-is-japan-heading-for-yet-another-%E2%80%98lost-decade%E2%80%99-245296/
It absolutely was supposed to become just an additional earthquake, only it registered a scale of 9.0 – and triggered a devastating tsunami.
March 11, 2011 would unquestionably not be forgotten at any time soon by the Japanese men and women since the northern piece on the technologically-advanced nation was thrown into distress. Tsunami waves as higher as ten meters hit the coast and washed absent anything it passed inside of a frightening pace. Aftershocks of smaller sized scales would keep on shaking them for the following number of days.
Obviously, the entire globe was left dumbstruck.
And as in case the earthquake/tsunami combo wasn’t plenty of, a further dilemma sets in: a nuclear plant’s received an issue. Like an overnight sensation, Fukushima grew to become a family name, albeit for every one of the wrong motives.
Now, just after weeks of hanging on the harmony, lots of are worried what would turn out to be of Japan afterwards. Particularly of curiosity would be the foreseeable future state of their economic climate.
Shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), in addition to from getting affiliated which has a technology-gone-bad label, just might be drained through the great clean-up fees and liabilities the Fukushima power plant brought (with claims amounting to eleven trillion yen when the crisis dragged on for two a long time).
Definitely lots of firms are already hit difficult by the catastrophe, and all of them are struggling to help keep afloat. The issue is, Japanese organizations look to possess this debt-rejection syndrome – no one would like to borrow income. But when they’re going to stay in the market, they are going to have to get started on throughout again and get funding somewhere. With Japanese firms wary of borrowing income, the financial state could possibly make a turn for the grim state; willingness to borrow funds is important to help propel progress.
Government agencies are already offering out proposals to begin the reconstruction ball rolling. According to lawmakers, 20 trillion yen reconstruction package is required, whilst the harm is twice as what the 1995 Kobe earthquake introduced. Some suggested boosting tax so they can fund all of the rebuilding. Division in the government system (also going through vital response with regards to the nuclear ability plant circumstances) may possibly make this an even complicated move for Japan.
The Financial institution of Japan offered a stimulus to improve the marketplace but with Japan’s history littered with stimulus package failure, it can be uncertain if they’ll welcome this.
Industry experts approximated it is going to consider a number of many years for Japan to rebuild all that harm – but arguably lengthier to make folks forget all the horror it introduced. And with an approximated 16-25 trillion yen in harm, it is no shock that investors are avoiding the Japanese market place. And rightly so – harm of this scale was under no circumstances noticed given that WWII.
Results may well stretch much more than a national scale for Japan can be a big know-how manufacturing hub. Parts of preferred gadgets are created in Japan, and all those firms, if not halting productions, are cutting back on operating hrs because of the energy shortage. Carmakers also pushed back again their strategies and delayed creation.
A further blow for the Japanese financial system is inside export market place. Now, just about everyone’s wary with the ‘Made in Japan’ label as radiation paranoia gripped the globe. Some nations refused entry of food items from Japan but people are even now worried that devices will also be tainted with radiation.
Atlantic International Partnership Review – For your past two decades, Japan’s financial system seemed to be stuck inside a deadlock. Public credit card debt grew to twice the quantity of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Politics is on an impasse also; where by the prime minister’s seat adjusted quite a few instances just final 12 months. Add to people the longtime issue of an aging population so you get the image of how complete their fingers will need to be.
The specific situation while in the nuclear strength plant appears to be to get handled appropriately, and hopefully will prevent churning out radiation while in the days and months to arrive. But right up until then, practically everything that may be coming from Japan (even persons!) will be beneath scrutiny.
The worst-case situation for Japan is once the troubles while in the nuclear strength plant drag on, resulting to another ‘lost decade’.
Here at AIP we appreciate that each and every individual investor is a uniquely complex person. It’s our belief in this that has led us develop a widely recognised innovative investment philosophy. At AIP we believe that our methodology can significantly increase the success of our private clients investments.
It absolutely was supposed to become just an additional earthquake, only it registered a scale of 9.0 – and triggered a devastating tsunami.
March 11, 2011 would unquestionably not be forgotten at any time soon by the Japanese men and women since the northern piece on the technologically-advanced nation was thrown into distress. Tsunami waves as higher as ten meters hit the coast and washed absent anything it passed inside of a frightening pace. Aftershocks of smaller sized scales would keep on shaking them for the following number of days.
Obviously, the entire globe was left dumbstruck.
And as in case the earthquake/tsunami combo wasn’t plenty of, a further dilemma sets in: a nuclear plant’s received an issue. Like an overnight sensation, Fukushima grew to become a family name, albeit for every one of the wrong motives.
Now, just after weeks of hanging on the harmony, lots of are worried what would turn out to be of Japan afterwards. Particularly of curiosity would be the foreseeable future state of their economic climate.
Shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), in addition to from getting affiliated which has a technology-gone-bad label, just might be drained through the great clean-up fees and liabilities the Fukushima power plant brought (with claims amounting to eleven trillion yen when the crisis dragged on for two a long time).
Definitely lots of firms are already hit difficult by the catastrophe, and all of them are struggling to help keep afloat. The issue is, Japanese organizations look to possess this debt-rejection syndrome – no one would like to borrow income. But when they’re going to stay in the market, they are going to have to get started on throughout again and get funding somewhere. With Japanese firms wary of borrowing income, the financial state could possibly make a turn for the grim state; willingness to borrow funds is important to help propel progress.
Government agencies are already offering out proposals to begin the reconstruction ball rolling. According to lawmakers, 20 trillion yen reconstruction package is required, whilst the harm is twice as what the 1995 Kobe earthquake introduced. Some suggested boosting tax so they can fund all of the rebuilding. Division in the government system (also going through vital response with regards to the nuclear ability plant circumstances) may possibly make this an even complicated move for Japan.
The Financial institution of Japan offered a stimulus to improve the marketplace but with Japan’s history littered with stimulus package failure, it can be uncertain if they’ll welcome this.
Industry experts approximated it is going to consider a number of many years for Japan to rebuild all that harm – but arguably lengthier to make folks forget all the horror it introduced. And with an approximated 16-25 trillion yen in harm, it is no shock that investors are avoiding the Japanese market place. And rightly so – harm of this scale was under no circumstances noticed given that WWII.
Results may well stretch much more than a national scale for Japan can be a big know-how manufacturing hub. Parts of preferred gadgets are created in Japan, and all those firms, if not halting productions, are cutting back on operating hrs because of the energy shortage. Carmakers also pushed back again their strategies and delayed creation.
A further blow for the Japanese financial system is inside export market place. Now, just about everyone’s wary with the ‘Made in Japan’ label as radiation paranoia gripped the globe. Some nations refused entry of food items from Japan but people are even now worried that devices will also be tainted with radiation.
Atlantic International Partnership Review – For your past two decades, Japan’s financial system seemed to be stuck inside a deadlock. Public credit card debt grew to twice the quantity of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Politics is on an impasse also; where by the prime minister’s seat adjusted quite a few instances just final 12 months. Add to people the longtime issue of an aging population so you get the image of how complete their fingers will need to be.
The specific situation while in the nuclear strength plant appears to be to get handled appropriately, and hopefully will prevent churning out radiation while in the days and months to arrive. But right up until then, practically everything that may be coming from Japan (even persons!) will be beneath scrutiny.
The worst-case situation for Japan is once the troubles while in the nuclear strength plant drag on, resulting to another ‘lost decade’.
Here at AIP we appreciate that each and every individual investor is a uniquely complex person. It’s our belief in this that has led us develop a widely recognised innovative investment philosophy. At AIP we believe that our methodology can significantly increase the success of our private clients investments.
Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: 2 Emerging-Market Mining Stocks to Buy
http://altlantic-internationalpartnership.com/2011/05/atlantic-international-partnership-headlines-2-emerging-market-mining-stocks-to-buy/
NEW YORK (InvestorPlace) — I was asked recently for a good reason why Southern Copper Corp.(SCCO_) was underperforming not just the price of copper, but also other huge copper mines like Freeport-McMoRan(FCX_).
The company-specific news flow certainly didn’t suggest that it should be massively trailing Freeport, especially since Southern had better reserves than Freeport. There were violent protests over a mine in Peru that resulted in a delay after the company had already invested serious money, but that wasn’t unusual. This happens in mining all the time, and it should have been mostly priced into the stock some time ago.
And then I saw the recent election results and I immediately understood — it was Peru itself.
The leftist candidate for Peru’s presidency, Ollanta Humala, won the biggest number of votes in the April 10 election and was leading the polls for the June 5 presidential runoff election. This is similar to what we saw in the 2006 election, as companies with huge exposure to Peru underperformed significantly.
Then, Humala campaigned “wearing red T-shirts and expressing admiration for Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez. This year, he’s donning business suits and vowing to expand ties with investor-favorite Brazil,” according to Bloomberg. The former army officer’s abrupt about-face has helped put him in first place in polls, and the outcome of the likely runoff is currently too close to call.
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While investors want to see Peru go the direction of Brazil, a Latin American success story, there is fear that the country may go the way of Venezuela and Bolivia, which have been governed with a remarkable lack of pragmatism.
So investors are wary — and with good reason — that Humala may enter office wearing a suit, but he may still have those red shirts from 2006 in his closet.
If mining royalties rise and the state increases control of the country’s gas reserves, there is about $42 billion worth of foreign investment in the mining industry earmarked over the next 10 years that is at risk.
Related Article: 5 stocks for $150 oil
We have seen this recurring problem in many emerging markets where the (primarily leftist) governments are worried that greedy foreign multinationals will plunder their natural resources, not realizing that without foreign investment they don’t have the huge amounts of money or expertise necessary to develop the deposits. Metals and oil deposits in the ground are worth very little if they stay in the ground.
NEW YORK (InvestorPlace) — I was asked recently for a good reason why Southern Copper Corp.(SCCO_) was underperforming not just the price of copper, but also other huge copper mines like Freeport-McMoRan(FCX_).
The company-specific news flow certainly didn’t suggest that it should be massively trailing Freeport, especially since Southern had better reserves than Freeport. There were violent protests over a mine in Peru that resulted in a delay after the company had already invested serious money, but that wasn’t unusual. This happens in mining all the time, and it should have been mostly priced into the stock some time ago.
And then I saw the recent election results and I immediately understood — it was Peru itself.
The leftist candidate for Peru’s presidency, Ollanta Humala, won the biggest number of votes in the April 10 election and was leading the polls for the June 5 presidential runoff election. This is similar to what we saw in the 2006 election, as companies with huge exposure to Peru underperformed significantly.
Then, Humala campaigned “wearing red T-shirts and expressing admiration for Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez. This year, he’s donning business suits and vowing to expand ties with investor-favorite Brazil,” according to Bloomberg. The former army officer’s abrupt about-face has helped put him in first place in polls, and the outcome of the likely runoff is currently too close to call.
While investors want to see Peru go the direction of Brazil, a Latin American success story, there is fear that the country may go the way of Venezuela and Bolivia, which have been governed with a remarkable lack of pragmatism.
So investors are wary — and with good reason — that Humala may enter office wearing a suit, but he may still have those red shirts from 2006 in his closet.
If mining royalties rise and the state increases control of the country’s gas reserves, there is about $42 billion worth of foreign investment in the mining industry earmarked over the next 10 years that is at risk.
We have seen this recurring problem in many emerging markets where the (primarily leftist) governments are worried that greedy foreign multinationals will plunder their natural resources, not realizing that without foreign investment they don’t have the huge amounts of money or expertise necessary to develop the deposits. Metals and oil deposits in the ground are worth very little if they stay in the ground.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Global and Regional Partnership Programs: aip madrid
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IEG is deeply involved in the evaluation and review of this important and growing line of business for the Bank. Global programs, like the Prototype Carbon Fund, the Stop TB Partnership, and the Cities Alliance, and regional programs like the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control and the Child Protection Initiative are programmatic partnerships in which:
The Bank is currently involved in about 125 global programs and 50 regional programs, which together spent around US$3.5 billion in 2006. And the Bank has become by far the largest trustee for global and regional trust funds, holding a stock of more than US$6 billion of such funds at the end of June 2006.
IEG is deeply involved in the evaluation and review of this important and growing line of business for the Bank. Global programs, like the Prototype Carbon Fund, the Stop TB Partnership, and the Cities Alliance, and regional programs like the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control and the Child Protection Initiative are programmatic partnerships in which:
- The partners contribute and pool resources (financial, technical, staff, and reputational) toward achieving agreed-upon objectives over time.
- The activities of the program are global, regional, or multi-country (not single-country) in scope.
- The partners establish a new organization with a governance structure and management unit to deliver these activities.
The Bank is currently involved in about 125 global programs and 50 regional programs, which together spent around US$3.5 billion in 2006. And the Bank has become by far the largest trustee for global and regional trust funds, holding a stock of more than US$6 billion of such funds at the end of June 2006.
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Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Is Fox News Inflating The Turnout At Bachmann’s Latest Rally?
http://altlantic-internationalpartnership.com/2011/05/atlantic-international-partnership-headlines-is-fox-news-inflating-the-turnout-at-bachmanns-latest-rally/
Fox & Friends Sunday repeatedly touted the “thousands” that attended a tax cut rally where Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) spoke, going so far as to make the rally’s supposedly large turnout one of their top headlines today.
Yet according to Fox’s local affiliate, reporting from St. Paul, Minnesota, it was the rally’s low turnout that made it newsworthy. In an article titled “Hundreds Attend Anti-Tax Hike Rally At Capitol: Turnout Significantly Smaller Than Last Year’s,” Fox 9 News reported:
Fox & Friends Sunday repeatedly touted the “thousands” that attended a tax cut rally where Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) spoke, going so far as to make the rally’s supposedly large turnout one of their top headlines today.
Yet according to Fox’s local affiliate, reporting from St. Paul, Minnesota, it was the rally’s low turnout that made it newsworthy. In an article titled “Hundreds Attend Anti-Tax Hike Rally At Capitol: Turnout Significantly Smaller Than Last Year’s,” Fox 9 News reported:
Hundreds gathered at the Minnesota Capitol to rally against a possible tax hike, but though it attracted the attention of some prominent lawmakers, the turnout didn’t meet expectations.Politico also noted the rally’s “sparse attendance” and highlighted the comments of a conservative blogger:
[...]
Organizers said that about 6,000 people turned out for last year’s event, but this year the headcount may have only touched 1,000.
The [Tax Day] rally’s sparse attendance is attracting nearly as much attention as Bachmann’s remarks.
Will Folks, a widely read blogger in South Carolina political circles, termed the rally a “dud” in a post Monday afternoon.
“Politicians, political operatives and members of the media came close to outnumbering attendees at a much-hyped Columbia, S.C., tea party rally starring U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday,” Folks wrote.
“Only 300 people (including a horde of Palmetto political operatives) attended the event in downtown Columbia, S.C. – which is a generous estimate in our book. That attendance figure – confirmed by other media outlets – amounts to less than one-tenth the size of multiple crowds that have gathered at the S.C. State House in recent years in support of parental choice.”
Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Stock Market News for May 4, 2011
http://blazetheodore.livejournal.com/51192.html
On Tuesday, markets felt the pinch of disappointing quarterly results and the benchmarks slid a few points as investors feared profitability might drop over the coming quarters. Over the past couple of weeks, markets have remained upbeat, climbing to multi-year highs following robust corporate results. Additionally, a drop in crude prices weighed down the energy sector.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was the only gainer among the benchmarks as it edged up 0.2% to 12,807.51. The Standard & poor 500 dropped 0.3% and the Nasdaq slipped 0.8% to settle at 1,356.62 and 12,807.51, respectively. After hitting its highest level in three years last week, the S&P 500 has now declined for two-straight days. On the New York Stock Exchange, composite volumes were at 4.5 billion shares. For every one stock that advanced on the NYSE, two stocks declined.
While earnings had been a favorable factor for the markets over the past few weeks, the markets had to suffer the flip side as companies posted lower-than-expected results yesterday. Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE – Analyst Report) (2.8%) was one of the biggest laggards for the Dow as it failed to beat sales estimates. Joining the list of disappointing results were companies like Clorox Corporation (NYSE:CLX – Analyst Report), Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE:TAP – Analyst Report), Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE:BZH – Snapshot Report) and Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD – Analyst Report). These shares dropped 3.6%, 6.0%, 5.0% and 9.9%, respectively.
Pfizer Inc. posted a heavily disappointing result. Earnings for the quarter managed to top estimates but shares slid significantly as the drug major failed to cross revenue estimates. Moreover, the company also lowered its revenue guidance. Pfizer Inc. reported first quarter earnings of 60 cents per share, flat from the year-ago period. First quarter revenues declined 0.4% to $16.5 billion. Shares were down 2.8% and finally closed at $20.44.
Meanwhile, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ:CTSH – Analyst Report) reported revenues of $1.37 billion in the first quarter of 2011, up 42.9% year over year and up 4.6% sequentially. Net income came in at $208.3 million or 67 cents per diluted share compared to a net income of $151.5 million or 49 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. Cognizant Technology’s figures managed to beat estimates but its slowing growth rate dragged the shares down. The company’s shares dropped 5.75 to settle at $77.52.
As crude prices retreated, energy shares slid into the red, dragging down the broader markets. The June crude oil contract dropped $2.47 and settled at $111.05 a barrel Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM – Analyst Report), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP – Analyst Report), Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX – Analyst Report), Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO – Analyst Report) and Western Refining Inc. (NYSE:WNR – Analyst Report) dropped 1.6%, 3.8%, 1.9%, 2.8% and 3.4%, respectively.
Economic data, released on Tuesday did little to boost market sentiment. The Commerce Department reported that Factory Orders increased by 3.0%, $13.5 billion, to $462.9 billion in March against expectations that the measure would increase by 1.9%, following a 0.7% increase in February. Factory Orders are up following five consecutive monthly increases. Excluding transportation, Factory Orders increased by 2.6%.
On Tuesday, markets felt the pinch of disappointing quarterly results and the benchmarks slid a few points as investors feared profitability might drop over the coming quarters. Over the past couple of weeks, markets have remained upbeat, climbing to multi-year highs following robust corporate results. Additionally, a drop in crude prices weighed down the energy sector.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was the only gainer among the benchmarks as it edged up 0.2% to 12,807.51. The Standard & poor 500 dropped 0.3% and the Nasdaq slipped 0.8% to settle at 1,356.62 and 12,807.51, respectively. After hitting its highest level in three years last week, the S&P 500 has now declined for two-straight days. On the New York Stock Exchange, composite volumes were at 4.5 billion shares. For every one stock that advanced on the NYSE, two stocks declined.
While earnings had been a favorable factor for the markets over the past few weeks, the markets had to suffer the flip side as companies posted lower-than-expected results yesterday. Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE – Analyst Report) (2.8%) was one of the biggest laggards for the Dow as it failed to beat sales estimates. Joining the list of disappointing results were companies like Clorox Corporation (NYSE:CLX – Analyst Report), Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE:TAP – Analyst Report), Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE:BZH – Snapshot Report) and Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD – Analyst Report). These shares dropped 3.6%, 6.0%, 5.0% and 9.9%, respectively.
Pfizer Inc. posted a heavily disappointing result. Earnings for the quarter managed to top estimates but shares slid significantly as the drug major failed to cross revenue estimates. Moreover, the company also lowered its revenue guidance. Pfizer Inc. reported first quarter earnings of 60 cents per share, flat from the year-ago period. First quarter revenues declined 0.4% to $16.5 billion. Shares were down 2.8% and finally closed at $20.44.
Meanwhile, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ:CTSH – Analyst Report) reported revenues of $1.37 billion in the first quarter of 2011, up 42.9% year over year and up 4.6% sequentially. Net income came in at $208.3 million or 67 cents per diluted share compared to a net income of $151.5 million or 49 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. Cognizant Technology’s figures managed to beat estimates but its slowing growth rate dragged the shares down. The company’s shares dropped 5.75 to settle at $77.52.
As crude prices retreated, energy shares slid into the red, dragging down the broader markets. The June crude oil contract dropped $2.47 and settled at $111.05 a barrel Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM – Analyst Report), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP – Analyst Report), Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX – Analyst Report), Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO – Analyst Report) and Western Refining Inc. (NYSE:WNR – Analyst Report) dropped 1.6%, 3.8%, 1.9%, 2.8% and 3.4%, respectively.
Economic data, released on Tuesday did little to boost market sentiment. The Commerce Department reported that Factory Orders increased by 3.0%, $13.5 billion, to $462.9 billion in March against expectations that the measure would increase by 1.9%, following a 0.7% increase in February. Factory Orders are up following five consecutive monthly increases. Excluding transportation, Factory Orders increased by 2.6%.
Atlantic International Partnership Funding Group: Providing Simplified Homewnership Solutions
http://www.halllc.com/2011/01/atlantic-international-partnership-funding-group-providing-simplified-homewnership-solutions/
AIFG has established a unique and innovative concept in the mortgage industry (Partnership Servicing) that is ideally suited to a challenging economy and real estate market. If you don’t know about our concept, then here’s an opportunity to learn more.
Atlantic International Partnership, a Florida Based, Multi State Licensed Mortgage Banker, has been providing partnership services to the mortgage and real estate industry since 2001. At AIFG we are all about partnership not product which is truly a unique approach to the mortgage industry. Here’s why.
Our mortgage professionals take a wholly different approach to doing business. We are unconventional, but in a good way. AIFG is committed to your success, we will stand behind you. We will promote you within our unique personalized partnership service package approach to doing business. Basically, our job is to make you look good; after all, you’re not a product but a partner. With our partnership service packages we‘ll make you a mortgage service professional and more. Think of yourself as an industry superstar…with the help of AIFG.
Atlantic International Partnership is prepared to partner with you within a service and marketing level that is both comfortable and ideally suited to your unique needs. Our flexible and scalable approach to servicing our industry partners is profoundly effective and results oriented.
One key difference with AIFG is that we are mortgage bankers Licensed in Multiple states, not brokers, with the ability to close and fund loans using our own warehouse line facility. Because of this capability, our resources and reach are significantly different, which means yours can be also, which sets us apart from many others in the industry today. And we are prepared to bring this exciting level of unique professionalism and support expertise directly to you and your client base.
As your mortgage service partner our Turnkey – Full Service Packages allows AIFG to do the work while you garner the sales and build strong image and branding for all of your client needs. We can truly make you a superstar.
AIFG has established a unique and innovative concept in the mortgage industry (Partnership Servicing) that is ideally suited to a challenging economy and real estate market. If you don’t know about our concept, then here’s an opportunity to learn more.
Atlantic International Partnership, a Florida Based, Multi State Licensed Mortgage Banker, has been providing partnership services to the mortgage and real estate industry since 2001. At AIFG we are all about partnership not product which is truly a unique approach to the mortgage industry. Here’s why.
Our mortgage professionals take a wholly different approach to doing business. We are unconventional, but in a good way. AIFG is committed to your success, we will stand behind you. We will promote you within our unique personalized partnership service package approach to doing business. Basically, our job is to make you look good; after all, you’re not a product but a partner. With our partnership service packages we‘ll make you a mortgage service professional and more. Think of yourself as an industry superstar…with the help of AIFG.
Atlantic International Partnership is prepared to partner with you within a service and marketing level that is both comfortable and ideally suited to your unique needs. Our flexible and scalable approach to servicing our industry partners is profoundly effective and results oriented.
One key difference with AIFG is that we are mortgage bankers Licensed in Multiple states, not brokers, with the ability to close and fund loans using our own warehouse line facility. Because of this capability, our resources and reach are significantly different, which means yours can be also, which sets us apart from many others in the industry today. And we are prepared to bring this exciting level of unique professionalism and support expertise directly to you and your client base.
As your mortgage service partner our Turnkey – Full Service Packages allows AIFG to do the work while you garner the sales and build strong image and branding for all of your client needs. We can truly make you a superstar.
Atlantic International Partnership
http://www.widepr.com/company_profile/3739/atlantic_international_partnership.html
Atlantic International Partnership (AIP) offers a comprehensive service giving you, AIP investors and entrepreneurs’ access to Marketplaces in your region and around the World. AIP investors are uniquely dynamic individuals or groups of individuals. AIP investors invest their capital in new or early stage companies. We have found that AIP investors are not a source of capital alone but we have found them to make excellent mentors. As most AIP investors are in fact successful entrepreneurs or business people themselves we have found that they are able to offer entrepreneurs advice and helpful suggestions based on the experience that they have accumulated from their own businesses.
Atlantic International Partnership (AIP) offers a comprehensive service giving you, AIP investors and entrepreneurs’ access to Marketplaces in your region and around the World. AIP investors are uniquely dynamic individuals or groups of individuals. AIP investors invest their capital in new or early stage companies. We have found that AIP investors are not a source of capital alone but we have found them to make excellent mentors. As most AIP investors are in fact successful entrepreneurs or business people themselves we have found that they are able to offer entrepreneurs advice and helpful suggestions based on the experience that they have accumulated from their own businesses.
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I guess what you mean is the AIFG - Atlantic International Funding Group based in Florida. Multi State Licensed Mortgage Banker and has been providing partnership services to the mortgage and real estate industry since 2001. SINCE 2001! The years of existence speaks for itself!
I guess what you mean is the AIFG - Atlantic International Funding Group based in Florida. Multi State Licensed Mortgage Banker and has been providing partnership services to the mortgage and real estate industry since 2001. SINCE 2001! The years of existence speaks for itself!
Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: FINANCIAL MATTERS: The choices before our new democracy
http://www.openpr.com/news/175140/Atlantic-International-Partnership-Headlines-FINANCIAL-MATTERS-The-choices-before-our-new-democracy.html
I readily confess to a fascination with the “theory of unintended consequences”. But, a small clarification before anything further is written. My interest is not in the certainty that everything that may go wrong about a policy choice/decision is bound to. Confronted by almost six decades of inept and often cynical management of this economy, it is to be expected that we have come to associate “unintended consequences” with “negative outcomes”.
In truth, put this way, my central narrative is but a variant of Murphy’s Law. Instead, my enthralment is with the benefits, losses, or wrong signals arising from a particular action, but which were not conceived of in or intended as part of the original action plan.
Newspaper headlines on workers’ day, May 1, were all of one flavour. In their addresses to the different labour rallies, state governors all pledged to implement the new minimum wage. Not too long ago, the same persons had argued that their state government budgets could not bear the extra financial burden from paying the new minimum wage. What had changed since then? I could think of only one proximate explanation: the events of late April, this year.
On balance, the last polls in the country appear to have moved the social engagement envelope several notches up. The “voice” of the people was heard loud and clear, amidst the din of many a strong man’s battered ego. That was the intended consequence of the clamour over the years for a democracy in which every vote is counted, and every vote counts.
To the extent that it acts as counter-weight to the dominant culture of impunity that has come to define our polity, a representative democracy ought to improve both the collective capacity to choose, and the different cabinet’s will to execute.
Perverse results
However, to the extent that politicians interpret “re-election” as the main challenge of a democracy, then even the best voting process could have perverse results. One such result is the rise of populist politics. Because the masses may now have the power of the vote, what is to stop unscrupulous politicians from pandering to its basest instincts? To take but a few examples, a thin line separates the need for higher taxes on the affluent in aid of society’s redistribution responsibilities from a restraint on commerce as part of an ill-advised process of democratising poverty; a no less blurred space sits between the need to protect employment for locals and xenophobia.
A less than honest treatment of the policy choices at the heart of these two examples could lead politicians in a race to the bottom of the dump yard; more so in a democracy where people have only just begun to savour the power that rightfully belongs to them. Our best bet is a lot more conviction at the top. For leadership is not solely about bending resources and capacity to the discharge of the popular will. It is more about shaping the choice space. Agreeing a desired destination, and selling this to the electorate. It is, in this very narrow sense, a question ultimately of shaping the popular will. Of leading it down paths where only visionaries have travelled previously.
Again as between a visionary leader and a demagogue, the thinnest of lines demarcate. So we arrive at the point where we must agree that even under the best of representative democracies, the threat of continued misrule in this country does not evaporate overnight. This danger is heightened by the prevalent low levels of education in the country, both of the classroom variety, and of the civic one, which can only come from a long thriving civil society.
In the absence of such a society, then, our hopes for a better tomorrow, in the short-term, at least still depend on the quality of leadership we get. In the absence of a functioning democracy, a benevolent caudillo almost became a popular fancy. One, who, understanding the need for progress along modern lines, a la Singapore and Malaysia, rammed that vision through society. Once we change the rules of the game through trying to run elections properly, we deny this possibility. Instead, the new need is for conviction politicians, prepared to argue their corner as strenuously as the most modern constitution permits, while eschewing popular lines.
AIP investors are uniquely dynamic individuals or groups of individuals. AIP investors invest their capital in new or early stage companies. We have found that AIP investors are not a source of capital alone but we have found them to make excellent mentors. As most AIP investors are in fact successful entrepreneurs or business people themselves we have found that they are able to offer entrepreneurs advice and helpful suggestions based on the experience that they have accumulated from their own businesses.
I readily confess to a fascination with the “theory of unintended consequences”. But, a small clarification before anything further is written. My interest is not in the certainty that everything that may go wrong about a policy choice/decision is bound to. Confronted by almost six decades of inept and often cynical management of this economy, it is to be expected that we have come to associate “unintended consequences” with “negative outcomes”.
In truth, put this way, my central narrative is but a variant of Murphy’s Law. Instead, my enthralment is with the benefits, losses, or wrong signals arising from a particular action, but which were not conceived of in or intended as part of the original action plan.
Newspaper headlines on workers’ day, May 1, were all of one flavour. In their addresses to the different labour rallies, state governors all pledged to implement the new minimum wage. Not too long ago, the same persons had argued that their state government budgets could not bear the extra financial burden from paying the new minimum wage. What had changed since then? I could think of only one proximate explanation: the events of late April, this year.
On balance, the last polls in the country appear to have moved the social engagement envelope several notches up. The “voice” of the people was heard loud and clear, amidst the din of many a strong man’s battered ego. That was the intended consequence of the clamour over the years for a democracy in which every vote is counted, and every vote counts.
To the extent that it acts as counter-weight to the dominant culture of impunity that has come to define our polity, a representative democracy ought to improve both the collective capacity to choose, and the different cabinet’s will to execute.
Perverse results
However, to the extent that politicians interpret “re-election” as the main challenge of a democracy, then even the best voting process could have perverse results. One such result is the rise of populist politics. Because the masses may now have the power of the vote, what is to stop unscrupulous politicians from pandering to its basest instincts? To take but a few examples, a thin line separates the need for higher taxes on the affluent in aid of society’s redistribution responsibilities from a restraint on commerce as part of an ill-advised process of democratising poverty; a no less blurred space sits between the need to protect employment for locals and xenophobia.
A less than honest treatment of the policy choices at the heart of these two examples could lead politicians in a race to the bottom of the dump yard; more so in a democracy where people have only just begun to savour the power that rightfully belongs to them. Our best bet is a lot more conviction at the top. For leadership is not solely about bending resources and capacity to the discharge of the popular will. It is more about shaping the choice space. Agreeing a desired destination, and selling this to the electorate. It is, in this very narrow sense, a question ultimately of shaping the popular will. Of leading it down paths where only visionaries have travelled previously.
Again as between a visionary leader and a demagogue, the thinnest of lines demarcate. So we arrive at the point where we must agree that even under the best of representative democracies, the threat of continued misrule in this country does not evaporate overnight. This danger is heightened by the prevalent low levels of education in the country, both of the classroom variety, and of the civic one, which can only come from a long thriving civil society.
In the absence of such a society, then, our hopes for a better tomorrow, in the short-term, at least still depend on the quality of leadership we get. In the absence of a functioning democracy, a benevolent caudillo almost became a popular fancy. One, who, understanding the need for progress along modern lines, a la Singapore and Malaysia, rammed that vision through society. Once we change the rules of the game through trying to run elections properly, we deny this possibility. Instead, the new need is for conviction politicians, prepared to argue their corner as strenuously as the most modern constitution permits, while eschewing popular lines.
AIP investors are uniquely dynamic individuals or groups of individuals. AIP investors invest their capital in new or early stage companies. We have found that AIP investors are not a source of capital alone but we have found them to make excellent mentors. As most AIP investors are in fact successful entrepreneurs or business people themselves we have found that they are able to offer entrepreneurs advice and helpful suggestions based on the experience that they have accumulated from their own businesses.
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