Sentences with phrase «as special fund»

CHAG holds monthly auctions for different animal rescue groups as well as special fund raisers for multiple animal needs such surgeries or emergency vet bills.

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If that's too much, cut the tax paid by fast - growing companies, which are the ones outfits such as the International Monetary Fund say are deserving of special treatment.

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

Gov. Scott had urged public calm, even as he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) pleaded with the federal government to provide more resources and called on Ryan and McConnell to summon lawmakers into a special session to break the impasse over the Zika funding bill.

«I have saved enough money to elevate my style of living or to fund a long - held dream — such as a special vacation, a boat, or a collectible — but I'm postponing any such expenses until I retire or am closer to retirement age.»

A special needs trust lets parents, other family members and other interested parties contribute funds for the benefit of a disabled person, while also enabling him or her to still receive means - tested benefits such as Medicaid and Security Supplemental Income (SSI).

«As older people leave the workforce, the city has been privatizing those jobs instead of bringing people back in to pay into the fund,» said Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of Michigan AFSCME Council 25, which represents city workers.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

Beijing has put a brave face on this move, saying it is designed to get the yuan included in the International Monetary Fund's reserve assets known as special drawing rights.

The Fund's investments in companies engaged in mergers, reorganizations or liquidations also involve special risks as pending deals may not be completed on time or on favorable terms.

Highland specializes in credit strategies, such as credit hedge funds, long only funds and separate accounts, distressed and special situation private equity, and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs).

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

DALLAS --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NexPoint Credit Strategies Fund (NYSE: NHF)(«NHF») today announced that it has set February 17, 2015 as the new record date for its special meeting of shareholders, which is scheduled for March 6, 2015, to approve a new investment advisory agreement to be entered into by NHF's subsidiary NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc. («NXRT») in connection with NHF's proposed spin - off of NXRT.

Rather than raise two separate funds, as we had done before (an early stage fund and a special opportunities fund), we decided to raise a single fund that would focus on spectacular entrepreneurs independent of stage.

The company specializes in credit strategies, such as credit hedge funds, long only funds and separate accounts, distressed and special situation private equity, and CLOs.

The quarterly meeting of the Incrementum Fund's Advisory Board took place earlier this month (April 12), and as usual, a special guest was invited to participate.

«[In 2009], with the tower's reserve funds nearly exhausted and the owner losing as much as $ 30 million, the mortgage holder appointed a «special servicer» to oversee 666 Fifth Avenue.

Consists of 1,250,000 ordinary shares held by Marlborough Special Situations Fund and 1,620,000 ordinary shares held by Marlborough UK Micro Cap Growth Fund, for which Hargreave Hale acts as manager.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring PersoAs long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Persoas PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

Cambridge Analytica, backed by top Trump donor and hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, was asked in December to turn over documents to special counsel Robert Mueller, as part of his investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

The snappily dressed former Facebook executive, who co-founded Social Capital in 2011, made early bets on Bitcoin, started a hedge fund, and raised $ 600 million to help startups go public through an unconventional vehicle known as a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company.

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Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

Special guests include a diverse set of outstanding personalities, such as John Bogle (inventor of the indexed mutual fund and founder of Vanguard), Walter Mischel (famed psychologist), Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Prize Laureate), Tony Robbins (performance coach) and Jason Zweig (Wall Street Journal).

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Consolidate debt or fund large purchases, such as travel, special events, auto repairs, medical expenses or almost any situation when you need cash, with our Express Personal Loan.

Prior to joining SKAGEN he was based in Shanghai, as Head of China Special Mandate, at Norges Bank Investment Management (the oil - fund), where he also previously held positions as a portfolio manager and a generalist global equity research analyst.

In our legal special, we discover what it takes to succeed as a private equity lawyer; examine some of the challenges facing the industry since the financial crisis; find out why fund terms are lengthening, the advantages of integrating permanent capital into a fund structure, and the latest regulatory shift in Germany in our expert commentaries; all this and more.

When I made this goal I was originally planning on switching over my work RRSP to some ETF's that pay dividends as well — however after closer inspection I found out we get a special group management fee rate — and the MER on these funds is only 0.5 %.

In exchange for providing funding most VC firms obtain majority voting rights by having the majority of the shares (or a preferred class of shares that are senior to common shares), as well as special veto rights.

The Company is a fund manager across six core investment themes, such as external debt, local currency, special situations, equity, corporate high yield and multi-strategy.»

In addition, the fund may invest up to 40 % of its net assets in stocks of foreign companies, which involve special risks, including currency fluctuations and economic as well as political uncertainty.

This ecological point of view underlies such international organizations as The Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (and consequent establishment of a Trade Board), UNESCO, the UN Special Fund and Technical Assistance program, and others.

While you may dismiss this as special pleading by a church bureaucrat, let me give you a bit of trivia about church funding.

Yet there are specifics, such as «Allow Low Income And Special Needs Students To Choose Which School To Attend By Making Title I and IDEA Funds Portable.»

Conte will now likely have transfer funds at his disposal in January to bolster his squad, and it looks as though things are going pretty well in west London right now as he looks to continue to get rid of players surplus to requirements and bring in his own type of individuals to build something special at Chelsea.

It was opened in 2005 — funded by the actress and special envoy to the UNHCR — as a boarding school for bright or at - risk girls.

Project Enlightenment offers parents of kids with special needs a place to find support and help even as it deals with funding and staff cuts.

In addition, the memo says, debts too difficult to collect must be written off as operating losses and may not be covered by the food service account, but by finding money «which may come from the district's general fund, special funding from the state or other local sources, or any other non-Federal sources.»

Also, children in special education are more likely to be abused than kids who are not, and considering the pathetic funding and stress of supporting and caring for a special needs child, it should be no wonder, but please understand this: not everyone who suffers becomes traumatized, some of us experience what positive psychologists refer to as «Post-Traumatic Growth.»

Funded hospital education places can be found in maintained special schools (usually a particular type of special school known as a hospital school), maintained PRUs (sometimes known as medical PRUs), special and AP academies and free schools.

Post-16 places in maintained special schools, special academies and non-maintained special schools are funded at # 10,000 per place, the same as pre-16 high needs places.

place funding known as elements 1 and 2 for post-16 institutions (except special schools and special academies)

Special post-16 institutions as defined below, play an important role, frequently offering specialist provision for low - incidence needs, they can receive high needs place funding directly from Education Skills and Funding Agency funding directly from Education Skills and Funding Agency Funding Agency (ESFA).

As we grow new leaders through the endowment, that we also grow the funding for the endowment so we can grow new leaders, and provide opportunities for local people who have not been to LAC; that it will make those high - potential leaders realize that we think they are special, and worth investing in.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

If that's the case, one obvious - though perhaps naive - solution seems to be to offer entertainment industry a deal - the funding does not get cut, BUT, in exchange, entertainment industry (as a whole, or specific sub-industries) get levied a special tax to fully fund that budget line item.

The President, Nana Akufo - Addo speaking as the special guest of honour at the 60th - anniversary celebrations of the Okuapeman School at Akropong Akuapem last Saturday, announced government's intention to «fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards».

«No one has a crystal ball, but I think we'll see some, my hope is, we'll see some federal action on this sooner or later, so some of what's being discussed is a dire consequence, having a special session, some of the things we're talking about, probably, hopefully will not come to pass,» DiNapoli said when asked if the mayor should, as the governor maintains, pick up the tab for H+H funding, or, as the mayor insists, the state should pony up the $ 380 million it is currently withholding from the system.

Cutting local authorities out of the equation will end any meaningful local planning to target funding to the children who need more help such as those with special needs.