Opportunity funds concentrating on distress intend to take advantage of the seized - up debt markets in a few different ways.
Not exact matches
As one of the early advocates for
concentrated investing in mutual
funds, we at Oakmark thought this would be a good
opportunity to revisit the case for concentration.
Do new
funds have the latitude to
concentrate in the best
opportunities while they remain small?
The greatest gains in reducing gaps in achievement and
opportunity have been made during periods when
concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or where significant new investments in school
funding have occurred.
Concentrating portfolio investments may also limit the ability of the
Fund to take advantage of other investment
opportunities.
Franklin K2 Global Macro
Opportunities Fund's goal is to seek to provide capital appreciation over a full market cycle, by allocating the
Fund's assets across global macro-focused investment strategies, which are generally
concentrated on discovering macroeconomic investment
opportunities across numerous markets and investments.
Today's
funding trends such as Creative Place - making, made possible through partnership enterprises among foundation, governmental, and financial - sector support, such as ArtPlace America, are
concentrated on giving art and artists
opportunities in diverse communities yet also require artists and arts organizations to think through an entrepreneurial frame by integrating their initiatives into their community's economic development and community revitalization strategies and having the potential to attract additional private and public support of the community.3 Is this a worthy challenge of contemporary arts insularity or does it discount subversive and against - the - grain art production, made by and for art communities, including that which is made within and by these same diverse communities that are being targeted by new
funding initiatives as in need of help in the form of artistic interventions?
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables 2007 Global Status Report (Paris and Washington, DC: REN21 Secretariat and Worldwatch Institute, 2008), p. 14; DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), «
Concentrating Solar Power
Funding Opportunity Announcement,» news release (Washington, DC: 25 May 2007).