Sentences with phrase «against funds with»

Morningstar tested funds with strong performance and high costs against funds with poor performance and low costs.

Choose your own peer group based on underlying factors like portfolio construction and industry focus, and benchmark your fund against funds with similar strategies.

Not exact matches

Even Democrats» least controversial demand, for disaster funding, faced pushback in 2017, with many Republicans in the House voting against various packages for hurricane and wildfire relief.

Even after the remaining funds were frozen, no charges were filed against Ding, Gao, or the players with them, so Philippine police didn't make any arrests, says Sergio Osmeña III, a former senator who last year was a member of the inquiry panel.

Later chapters offer a detailed peek into how the Canadian media sausage is made, detailing the challenges of offsetting public funding with ad sales, the overwhelming importance of NHL hockey to the CBC's operating budget, Ceeb - style office politics and the uphill battle against the private channels of Corus, Rogers and Bell.

Inclusion also provided a compensation fund for those with harassment claims against Weinstein.

Once the products were populated (funded) with their own customers» money, the banks bet against them!

With $ 716 million in funding, the Milpitas, California, firm specializes in IoT - connected window installations that can be programmed to tint against sun glare and to reduce ambient heat — all controlled through a proprietary app.

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

The ranking was based on five factors: Tier 1 capital compared with risk - weighted assets; nonperforming assets against total assets; loan - loss reserves to nonperforming assets; deposits to funding; and efficiency, a measure of costs to revenue.

Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

Continuing with our earlier discussion, betting against the FOMC's dot plot accelerated on Friday, as the Fed Funds futures spiked.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

«These hedge funds are putting on what we call paired trades,... betting against one company with huge Chinese exposure and going long a similar company with little to no Chinese business,» he said on Friday.

The extra funding not only provides a cushion against a margin call, but it provides the trader with greater room for error.

Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have made a strong pitch to investors: Trust us with your money, and we'll make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns inevitably end.

While Ackman has a long position in Valeant and Hempton says his fund, Bronte Capital, is betting against it, the opposite has been the case on Herbalife, with Ackman short and Hempton long.

Appellate court confirms judgment against Credit Suisse Group AG DALLAS — February 21, 2018 — Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P. and NexPoint Advisors, L.P. announce today that the Texas Court of Appeals confirmed an aggregate $ 351 million award in favor of the Highland Floating Rate Opportunities Fund (NYSE: HFRO)(«HFRO») and the NexPoint Credit Strategies Fund (NYSE: NHF)(«NHF», and together with HFRO, the...

Latin American countries with less of a buffer against a global downturn, such as Mexico and Brazil, have also been a drag on exchange traded fund (ETF) flows.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike» position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).

And they are to relinquish public spending to private contractors, and not to interfere with the international flow of investment funds, not even to impede capital flight by domestic elites or speculation against their national currencies.

Against the background of MiFID II, fund managers are also focusing on a number of other urgent issues, with stewardship at the head of the list, as Cynthia Alers explains.

As ProPublica detailed in 2010, Magnetar worked with investment banks to build CDOs that the hedge fund also bet against.

For his part in the bet, Seides picked five funds - of - funds with interests in more than 200 hedge funds to go up against Buffett's Vanguard S&P index fund.

Another rub for investors with hedging against inflation via ETFs is these funds are not great income generators.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully invested in a widely diversified portfolio of stocks, with about half of that portfolio hedged against the impact of market fluctuations.

As a defensive tactic against ransomware attacks, corporations have been noted to buy «emergency funds» of 50 to 100 bitcoins to be able to negotiate with hackers.

With many high - yield stocks also having defensive characteristics, some conservative investors like funds such as the Vanguard ETF as a way of protecting against market downturns.

I agree with the Accumulator's points about Global Index linkers but would point out that a Global Equity fund would also give a measure of protection against home - grown inflation via currency depreciation as well as capital / income growth.

So there's a good chance the FOMC will decide against any policy changes and continue along it charted course for now (with the funds rate near zero).

Although Buffett's $ 1 million bet against a hedge - fund manager was won months ago, he reinforces that victory with some simple advice: Keep your investing costs as low as possible.

This was conceived as a way for angel investors to invest with some protection against the terms and pricing negotiated with traditional venture funds in the subsequent rounds.

Plenty of studies warn against this, including one that shows that missing out on just 10 of the best days in the stock market over 160,000 daily returns in 15 markets around the world can cause you to end up with about half of what you would have earned if you had stuck with an index fund over time.

From an investment standpoint, it's hard to argue against this moniker — the Launchers & Landers subsector ended the year with the most investment, representing 72 % of capital allocation, and outpaced the Satellite sector as the most - funded segment within the Entrepreneurial Space Industry.

Against the average investor return of just 2.6 % annually over the ten years through 2013, I would be happy with the dividend fund if it just made the same return as the general stock market.

For now, about 70 % of the stock portfolio of the Strategic Growth Fund is hedged against the impact of market fluctuations, with the remaining 30 % hedged with put options only.

As the fund is designed to be a hedge against market declines and rising volatility, Cambria expects the fund to produce negative returns in the most years with rising markets or declining volatility.

Pershing Square, an activist hedge fund owned and managed by William Ackman, began hostile maneuvers against the board of CP Rail in September 2011 and ended its association with CP in August 2016, having netted a profit of $ 2.6 billion for his fund.

The fund - raising has also taken place against a more compressed time period, with Zenefits boosting its war chest in less than a year from a previous financing round.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), working in coordination with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California (USAO - NDCA), assessed a $ 700,000 civil money penalty recently against Ripple Labs Inc. and its whollyowned subsidiary, XRP II, LLC (formerly known as XRP Fund II, LLC).

A recent SEC order instituting administrative and cease - and - desist proceedings against a small hedge fund manager confirms the principle that hedge fund investors — not managers — own the assets in funds and any assets generated with those assets, subject to specific exceptions.

As pension funds, hedge funds and mutual funds recovered from the crisis, traders, portfolio managers and treasurers said in interviews with Global Finance that their exposure to derivatives is actually increasing as a means of hedging against further volatility in the markets.

Thiel had funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker after it published a video showing the former professional wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, in a sexual encounter with the wife of a former friend, radio host Bubba the Love Sponge.

As the Federal Reserve eyes a tighter monetary policy with higher rates ahead, exchange traded fund investors do not have to rely solely on tradition investment options to hedge against rising rate risks.

With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.

His strategy is to lie about what he's going to do («I support Israel»), do the opposite (send massive funding ovderseas to the Muslim Brotherhood for use against Israel, and positon Israel as the «threat») and then lie abouit what he did («relations with Israel have never been closer»).

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

And so I stand with the young woman in the above video in defense of modesty, chastity, and piety, just as I stand with Muslims like my dear friends Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Dr. Suzy Ismail against the killing of unborn children and the evil of pornography, and with my equally dear friend Asma Uddin of the Becket Fund in defense of religious freedom.

we aren't anti Christianity, we're against the funding of hate groups, which is what CFA does with its money.

Whether by intention or misreading, Nord says, these decisions are used to equate secular interest with the nonreligious, thereby stacking the deck against religion in publicly funded schools.