Sentences with phrase «among biggest funders»

As part of the Indigenous - led DC Reinvest Coalition, we're working to pressure the DC Government to divest its holdings and banking operations from Wells Fargo, which is among the biggest funders of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, a major investor in for - profit prisons, and an institution with a long history of racist lending.

Not exact matches

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission proposed a bigger new multi-year budget on Wednesday that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission met on Wednesday to agree proposals for a bigger new multi-year budget that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, among the world's biggest investors, said it was turning cautious and expected returns to slow over the next decade, given high valuations, uncertainty over monetary policy and modest economic growth.

WESTERN Australia's relationship with China, infrastructure and a state sovereign wealth fund were among the big - picture topics addressed by Premier Colin Barnett at last week's WA Business News Success & Leadership Series Breakfast.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

On this issue among others — like funding the government, raising the federal borrowing limit and financing highways — such business groups have found themselves at odds with traditional Republican allies who increasingly reflect a new populist strain of conservatism in the party that is often hostile toward big business.

And the investors involved don't consider this charity — pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are expected to be among the biggest investors.

As a steward of pension funds and retirement accounts, Neuberger Berman has traditionally employed a staid strategy familiar among big Wall Street money managers: Buy and hold stocks, sit back, and hope for the best.

For the one - week period ended last Thursday, U.S. bond funds were the big winner among ETFs, with four of the top five ETFs for new investor money coming from the U.S. fixed income asset class, according to ETF.com data.

In 2017, investors poured more than $ 160 billion into international equity ETFs — almost as much as they did into U.S. equity funds — and emerging market funds were big in - takers, with ETFs like the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG) and the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) among the year's most popular strategies.

But here's where investors often make their biggest mistakes with diversification: They think that buy spreading their money among several different mutual funds that their diversified.

Google's venture investment arm, GV, is among those pumping cash into Intangible's coffers, alongside some other big venture capital players, hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller, and former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh.

Sayers was among a number of big - name British athletes who were dropped from funding for 2013 - 14, with Jenny Meadows, Yamilé Aldama and Lisa Dobriskey among those to miss out.

Budget winners: Liquor stores, out - of - state hedge - fund managers and beverage companies were among the big winners.

«New York's colleges and universities are among the best in the nation — and with this funding, we are helping them make big investments that will benefit students in both the near - and long - term future,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement released Monday.

Among the biggest avenues for pork - barrel funding is the State and Municipal Facilities Program, which is administered by the Dormitory Authority.

The biggest spender among the third - party groups has been the Congressional Leadership Fund, a so - called super political action committee aligned with the House Republican leadership, which has poured in more than $ 6.2 million to attack Mr. Ossoff.

Among the big issues: school aid, pre-K funding and how to pay for a property tax freeze the governor badly wants.

Among those voting against the reelection of Rupert Murdoch, his two sons, and six other family allies for reelection to the company board will likely be representatives from New York City's big pension funds, which hold more than $ 92 million worth of shares in News Corp..

«The combination of foundation - funded front - groups, big lobbying budgets, [political action committee] donations, and direct campaign contributions makes Koch Industries and the Koch brothers among the most formidable obstacles to advancing clean energy and climate policy in the U.S.,» Greenpeace says.

Among the biggest winners politically on the Web have been hate and terrorist groups, many of which have mastered online fund - raising and recruiting.

The Palaeo - Anthropological Scientific Trust (PAST), launched with donations from mining giants Anglo American and De Beers, among others, hopes to attract regular funds from big business to support a range of activities, from excavations and exploration to the training of palaeo - anthropologists and encouragement of «archaeo - tourism» to South Africa's spectacular cave sites.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Government funding may remain one of the biggest uncertainties hanging over the report, despite the consensus among astronomers and astrophysicists about their scientific priorities.

According to The Key's findings, financial worry has spread significantly among school leaders in the last year with 51 per cent considering budget pressures and lack of funding as the biggest challenge for the coming academic year.

Opposition among antipoverty groups is building on two grounds — that charter schools are done to, not by, families in big cities; and that transfers of funds to charter schools hurt students in district - run schools.

Technology, an uncertain funding environment and global competition are among the biggest drivers of change within the education market.

Seeing funding as a top problem peaks among college graduates, Democrats, liberals, and those with $ 100,000 + incomes, with about one - third of each group citing it as a big issue.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a big supporter of the Common Core (and among the many funders of The Hechinger Report) made a half - million - dollar grant to an education nonprofit (the Kentucky Chamber Foundation), which then disbursed it in smaller amounts to local groups that introduced Common Core to their communities.

Curious about the big splashy new NPR education story about education funding that just rolled out this week, telling us how massive the funding inequalities are between states and among districts in the same states?

Marking a 25th anniversary, charter schools and the industry that's become synonymous with these schools expected big things in 2016, with the help of continued growth and funding, recent legislation lifting regulations and opening up new markets, and a mostly favorable regard for these schools among the public.

And behind all that is the reality that a number of the key players behind charter schools are among Bronin's biggest campaign donors... money that is so important to Bronin that he refused to give back those funds and thus lost the endorsement of the Hartford Federation of Teachers.

The Pennsylvania PAC has received millions from a trio of hedge - fund managers and the American Federation for Children, a pro-voucher group funded by Betsy and Dick DeVos, who are among the nation's biggest donors to Republican and evangelical causes.

Among my funds, those hit the hardest were 1) funds invested in energy / oil, such as CGMFX and PRNEX, after what happened to oil prices in the second half of 2008; 2) funds have big exposure in foreign markets, such as ADVDX and DODFX.

Einhorn and Loeb are often among the first big - name hedge funds to tabulate their monthly returns.

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

Among them was to protect the other life insurers of the US from getting surcharged in order to pay for the costs going to the guarantee funds, along with systemic risk issues at AIG Financial Products (which was much bigger).

The big changeover from equity to fixed income represents a shift in thinking among a fair chunk of big corporations to a liability - driven investment attack for their pension plans, which seeks to curb the future volatility of their funded status, according to Milliman consultants.

There's no mystery why: Among mutual fund companies, Vanguard has long been not only the biggest champion of index funds, but also the firm with the lowest annual fund expenses.

Almost all of the typical Canadian Equity funds count the Big 5 banks and large insurance companies among the top 10 holdings.

You could narrow your focus by sticking with one of the big three no - load mutual fund companies — Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price Group and Vanguard Group — and then picking from among their funds.

Among the savers, 8 % will set aside the money for retirement, 17.3 % will put it toward a college fund, 24.6 % will save for a big purchase, and 50.1 % will put the money into an emergency fund.

Having garnered over $ 4 million in funding, Hitbox.tv will soon be among the big names in game - streaming.

It's apparent that, among the plebs like me, the ultimate source of «science» funding, there is a growing skepticism of «big (government) science», and the tide is slowly turning against it.

These people face hungry wolves like big bank traders, asset managers and funds, who make the market in the confusion among false signals and press media.

Pantera Capital, one of the most influential investment funds among those that specialize in blockchain and the biggest bitcoin owner among the venture capital firms, has supported the project.

This year's winners are: Doris Attebury of R / E Professional Consultants, Lubbock, Texas, founder of East Lubbock Special Angels, which collects donated goods from the community and distributes them to those in need; Jean Clary of Century 21 Clary & Associates, Emporia, Va., founder of Children are Really Extra Special, a program that enlists corporate sponsors to fund educational opportunities for 4,000 low - income, rural school children; Craig Conant of Elsberry Realty, Warrensburg, Mo., who supports many projects in the community including founding a Big Brothers / Big Sisters chapter and a children's memorial park; Debra Parmenter of Coldwell Banker Heritage House, Durango, Colo., who, among her many charitable activities, founded Adopt - A-Family, an organization that donates Christmas gifts to the needy; and Matthew Schrum of Weichert, REALTORS ®, Yardley, Pa., who has worked as a volunteer firefighter for 19 years.