It found that potential funders' perceived motivations for equity crowdfunding include finance, non-finance, diversification, networking, support, etc.
One of Mr. Monty's early moves at BCE was to spin off its controlling stake in Nortel to shareholders, using a large chunk of the 4 billion Canadian dollars proceeds to finance the diversification drive.
The cash from Telmex has financed relentless diversification.
GMAC is in worse shape than other financial institutions largely because its focus has almost exclusively involved automotive and home financing, without the diversification that has helped other lenders.
Political commitment to control the diseases, including HIV, could drive the effective and efficient response, and could realize diversification of financing sources tax-based financing, sources tax-basedurance and social marketing approaches—to support high-impact interventions.
The finance literature on the diversification discount is the intellectual antecedent of research on divestitures.
While the farming industry collects about 41 billion euros in direct aid, this year, 13.6 billion euros more went to rural development programs — to encourage diversification by financing projects like organic farming, renewable energy and farm tourism.
If Latin America doesn't channel some of the finance to support macroeconomic stability, economic diversification, equality and environmental protection, this new source of finance could bring great risk.
Andrew W. Lo, a finance professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, likes the diversification that timberland investments bring: he said that the returns correlate less with, say, United States stocks than Western European stocks would.
Yet, while the small and midsize business sector is seen as key to the country's economic diversification, its access to financing is limited, especially since bank lending dried up after 2008.
Growing banks have a high concentration of market activities, pursue lending diversification, focus on consumer financing and are unconcerned about the asymmetric information of borrowers.
