Sentences with phrase «fund by a few years»

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A new survey by the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) reported that the number of fund managers that expect the value of oil firms to drop in the next few years has doubled.

A new coal plant, funded by the World Bank, is only scheduled for completion in a few years» time.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

This came just a few months after Cynthia Vanier, a mediator from Ontario who conducted a fact - finding mission to Libya last year funded by SNC - Lavalin, ended up in prison in Mexico.

The majority of the opportunity set over the past few years has been comprised of first - time funds being raised by new firms.

And while a few hundred million dollars over 11 years doesn't stretch very far on its own, Ottawa's infrastructure funding is typically matched by provincial and municipal dollars.

We held this view 50 years ago when we each ran an investment partnership, funded by a few friends and relatives who trusted us.

Once again the Sunnis, armed, trained, funded, and employed to good effect by the U.S. during the surge just a few years earlier, were utterly disenfranchised and aggrieved as Maliki de-professionalized the army, replacing once - U.S. allies with Shia loyalists.

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

Which is why I suggest that as you review your investment strategy for the New Year and beyond, you consider a streamlined approach that allows you to get by with lower fees and fewer funds.

And whereas almost half of all mutual funds a few years ago were bought electronically, it is estimated that the figure will drop to 35 percent next year and to 20 percent by 2005.

In addition, by contributing throughout the year, you can benefit from dollar - cost averaging by buying more units of mutual funds when markets are down and fewer when markets are up.

In fact the lack of huge fund flows into equities over the past few years is one of the reasons I'm less pessimistic than many about stock markets, even to some extent in the US which looks by far the priciest market.

«Over the last few years there has been a welcome change in how the highway network's importance has been recognised by government with new structures for delivery and changes to funding for strategic roads put in place.

For larger jobs, Oddo will use the $ 20,000 he allocated in his last year in City Council to fund a on - call mobile litter response team run by Project One, which will start in a few weeks.

Cuomo's original plan would be funded by the workers themselves, and would provide one third of an employee's pay, rising to half of their pay in a few years.

Curran and Martins would increase funding and staffing for the county Ethics Board, which investigates complaints of misconduct by county employees but has issued few public findings or reports in recent years.

This article tells the story of several families who have purchased Land Bank homes over the past few years — some directly from the Land Bank and others fixed up with grant funds by Home HeadQuarters.

School Board Vice President Thomas Ham echoed the senator's remarks regarding the relationship between mandates and funding, and said any additional funding Saugerties has received in the past few years has been offset by increased mandates, leaving the district at «status quo.»

In his first few years as a principal investigator (PI), working with stem cells and emerging nanotechnologies to develop nanomedicines, Ferreira was able to make do by licensing some of his technologies and securing industry funding and Portuguese government grants.

«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.

The structural problem should work itself out in the next few years, and research funding is being replaced in part by philanthropy and industrial sources.

A new report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and presented by Robin Mellors - Bourne, director of research and intelligence at CRAC: The Career Development Organisation (which runs Vitae), shed light on how English universities recruit Ph.D. students and how they expect supply and demand to develop in the next few years.

Ten years ago, a few scientists started an «open access» campaign for free journals funded by author fees.

I was interested in hearing that the picture had already had a pre-production period before losing funding for a few years and being rescued by Cameron and Bigelow from eternal turnaround.

A $ 600 - million, seven - year program to fund asbestos removal in public and private schools will be considered by the U.S. Senate some time in the next few weeks, and its sponsors are cautiously optimistic that it will win the votes needed for passage.

Massachusetts schools have been struggling with severe fiscal problems caused by local funding constraints and an erosion of state aid during the past few years.

«We already have a model that works and there is evidence to support it's working,» said Hall, referring to a school turnaround model funded by federal Race to the Top dollars that has shown to help some of the state's poorest - performing public schools improve academically over the past few years.

Outside managers are taking over these schools and siphoning off public funds for themselves by hiring mainly young, inexpensive teachers and encouraging them to move on after a few years.

With their basic educational mission confronted by ongoing funding threats, that have forced them to trim the traditional school year to save money, few school administrators and governing boards feel they can justifiably boost summer spending.

By the time you count, by the second or third week in Septmeber, you've hired new teachers, you've got your boundaries set... [The reghoster] was a recognition on the part of the legislature that if you're a declining enrollment school district — or even a rapidly growing school district — it's going to take a few years for you to either add the new schools or close schools and redistrict to really make the kind of savings you're going to need to adjust to the reductions in fundinBy the time you count, by the second or third week in Septmeber, you've hired new teachers, you've got your boundaries set... [The reghoster] was a recognition on the part of the legislature that if you're a declining enrollment school district — or even a rapidly growing school district — it's going to take a few years for you to either add the new schools or close schools and redistrict to really make the kind of savings you're going to need to adjust to the reductions in fundinby the second or third week in Septmeber, you've hired new teachers, you've got your boundaries set... [The reghoster] was a recognition on the part of the legislature that if you're a declining enrollment school district — or even a rapidly growing school district — it's going to take a few years for you to either add the new schools or close schools and redistrict to really make the kind of savings you're going to need to adjust to the reductions in funding.

For the past few years, federal emergency recovery funds made up at least part of the shortfall in state and local revenues caused by the steep recession, but that won't happen again.

Initially funded by substantial contributions from Peter Flanigan and the Louis Calder Foundation, support for the Curran Catholic School Leadership Academy has grown over the past few years.

This past staging of WBN saw a grassroots movement spring up after one of the previous years» titles, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, was banned in one US school system; a student and a few concerned citizens organized the funds and donations to distribute the book to all of the students who signed a petition to reinstate the title.

Over the past few years, stock fund managers have struggled mightily to beat their indexes consistently, but you'd never know it by looking at the track record of Fidelity's William Danoff.

My personal experience proved that lumpsum investing is better than STP for 6 to 12 months as I invested in 5 hybrid equity balanced funds for an amount of 12 lakhs on 1st January 2016 when markets were all time high, but, immediately after I invested, markets started to fall with some corrections for few months and my portfolio was down by 1.5 lakhs versus my investment at some point but now my portfolio is up by 1.2 lakhs where there is an appreciation of 14 % till date, some people even suggested me to go for STP over 6 to 12 months to average out but I believed in this lumpsum investing than STP as I did not need this anount for upto 5 years.

Income investors have poured money into infrastructure funds in the last few years, lured by yields of 4 % -7 % backed by government spending.

No immediate change in Fed policy is likely — winding down QE3 over the next few months as announced in December will continue, the Fed funds rate target won't shift from its current zero to 25 basis points and the yield on the ten year Treasury note won't rise by much.

Personally, I transfer $ 25 per week to our emergency fund and increase it by a few dollars a couple of times throughout the year.

The market has been propped up recently by governmental stimulus (especially at the retail level), but it has been driven for years by some bigger institutional factors (eg, more and more pension fund money chasing fewer and fewer opportunities).

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in bond yields would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and a few percent of assets in utility shares.

For a single bond this isn't a big deal but if hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested in a bond mutual fund and interest rates sharply spike over a few years than the initial capital could drop by double digit percentages.

Which is why I suggest that as you review your investment strategy for the New Year and beyond, you consider a streamlined approach that allows you to get by with lower fees and fewer funds.

Quantitative analysis is a mathematical tool that is currently used by hedge funds and the big investment banks, however these methods require considerable resources and given the performance of hedge funds in the last few years, it does not appear to be worth the investment.

Over the last few years, thanks to education by Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) and some great advertising by the Mutual fund Asset Management Companies (AMC), a lot of Indians are taking the plunge into equities via the SIP route.

The data comes from hedge fund guru Joel Greenblatt's book, You Can Be A Stock Market Genius, and was highlighted by top value investor Whitney Tilson a few years back (and recently reprinted on The Motley Fool website).

Over the years, many journalists (and only a few advisors) have lamented the comparatively high MERs charged by Canadian mutual fund companies.

The lawsuit that was filed a few years back by the Animal Legal Defense Fund but the hard work behind the scenes had been underway for a long, long time.

A comprehensive study funded by APPA a few years ago looked at the next 10 years for the pet industry.