The phrase "equity orientation" is correct and usable in written English.
The phrase is typically used in the context of organizational structures and corporate policies, and it means that the organization prioritizes fairness and equal opportunities for all employees. For example, you could say "Our company takes pride in its equity orientation, which ensures equal access to benefits and opportunities."
If you take this portfolio and apply the tests that we articulated at the outset of the lecture today — equity orientation and diversification — the portfolio is clearly equity-oriented; 96% of assets are invested in some type of vehicle that we would expect to generate equity-like returns over reasonably long periods of time.
If you have a sensibly long time horizon, these basic principles of equity orientation and diversification make an enormous amount of sense.
Student: Hi, so, my question is about given you were talking about your equity orientation and bias, and given what's going on right now with the stock market, just what your views are.
Over the past twenty years, we've generated 15.6% per annum return, but that headline number obviously has a lot to do with the equity orientation of the portfolio but doesn't describe the importance of the diversification.
The equity orientation drove the returns but the diversification allowed us to deliver those returns in a stable fashion, which is incredibly important for an institution like Yale that requires a steady supply of funds to finance its operations.
So, the portfolios that I saw when I got to Yale failed the basic common sense test of diversification and equity orientation, and it prompted me and my colleagues to go down a different path, to put together a portfolio that had reasonable exposure to equities, and put together a portfolio that was sensibly diversified.
Ivan Seidenberg, a former chairman of Verizon Communications, grounded his board in the idea of growth: "I [wanted] them to think about building our business for the next 100 years before thinking about the quarter or the equity value". With this orientation, the board approved a $10 billion capital project to revolutionize Verizon's digital capabilities essentially betting the company.
It includes 8 dimensions namely student cohesiveness, teacher support, involvement, investigation task orientation, cooperation, equity, differentiation, computer usage, and young adult ethos.
In contrast, advocacy, management of clinical information, comprehensiveness of services, cultural sensitivity, family-centred care, whole-person care, population orientation and equity are poorly covered.
The MoRES framework is designed so that UNICEF systems and strategies can be adjusted at a rapid pace towards equity re-focus and orientation to achieve results.
We also mapped individual items to attributes, and not surprisingly, found a broader coverage (results not shown), though not of attributes such as advocacy, cultural sensitivity, family-centred care, whole-person care, population orientation and equity.
