Onshore production in the Niger delta and shale operations in the US are under threat: not because they face opposition from environmentalists but because they provide no or lousy returns for the cash deployed.
About half of the cash deployed went into the Canadian LPs, which now represent 25.7% of this more conservative portfolio.
During the week, I began with cash at 20% and ended the week with just 5%, with the majority of the cash deployed going into LPs, which now account for 29.5% of the model portfolio.
Supermarkets are opening a new front in the fight for consumers' Christmas cash, deploying their top chefs to cook up eye-catching twists on festive British classics.
If the cash-flow-related goal is met, both teams get the bonus percentage assigned to the achievement; if they miss, the cash goes back into the bonus pool.Rehnberg shares another conviction with Dunn: Just as a profit number gives an investor a sense of earnings potential, he observes, free cash flow gives an investor a sense of how company cash is deployed.
"In the context of banking, PINs first appeared in separate British cash machines deployed in 1967, with six-digit PINs in the Barclays-De La Rue system rolled out in June, and four-digit PINs in the National-Chubb system in September," the researchers write.
It is indisputable that a lot of craft, a huge amount of creativity and massive lumps of cash been deployed in getting us to buy into an idea, yet we are regularly told that traditional forms of advertising are losing their relevance in the face of the viral power of the Internet.
With bank lending harder to come by, companies will go to investors directly, creating underwriting business for bankers and investment opportunities for those with cash to deploy, particularly cash-rich private equity firms like K.K.R. Indeed, the buyouts industry has some $900 billion to deploy, according to Preqin, a provider of information on the private equity industry.
And because its turnarounds take more time than traditional buy-outs, it takes longer for the cash it deploys to come back.
By some estimates, a quarter of today's private equity firms will die off as they fail to raise money; those funds that survive will have less cash to deploy.
Virtually all of Libya's riches come from oil, and while the country may well be sitting on a cash mountain, deploying those sums in international markets to buy arms or pay outside fighters is likely to be very difficult.
