To allocate capital for agricultural supplies and machinery, he was obliged to cut down on spending for heavy industry and defense.
We took a step back and said we were going to allocate capital for growth directly against the consumer.
This case presents an overview of the strategic questions facing the senior managers of Whitehall, the opportunistic real estate fund of Goldman , Sachs & Co.in 1994 95 as they consider whether to allocate capital for investments in European real estate markets.
The relatively inefficient timber market is continually evolving, creating new opportunities for investors to allocate capital for both income and appreciation.
As the recession has delayed exits from venture investments via initial public offerings, many VCs are being forced to allocate capital for existing portfolio companies, instead of making wholly new investments.
Last week Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, made a speech in Berlin in which he linked allocating capital to green technologies with the prospects for an environmentally sustainable recovery in global growth.
Western finance, to paraphrase Churchill, is the worst way to allocate capital, except for all those other forms.
He has also shaken up the way Citi allocates capital and pledged to cut staff numbers by 20% as part of a broader overhaul.
One method, pushed by the Americans, was to move towards using banks' internal models for allocating capital to credit risks—just as they do for market risks on their trading books.
It is surely threefold - to raise long-term capital for companies, to allocate capital to the most promising businesses and to provide a vehicle for savings.
"This business realignment reflects Citi's recently announced global focus of allocating capital to the best opportunities for growth," the company said in a statement.
