But you may also want to take a look
at some other alternative funding solutions.
Not exact matches
This is evident in a number of developments, including: increased demand for higher - risk assets; the increase in «carry trades» — a form of gearing where
funds are borrowed short - term
at low interest rates and invested in higher - yielding assets, often in
other countries; growth in
alternative investment vehicles such as hedge
funds; and growth in
alternative investment strategies such as selling embedded options (see Box A).
Selling gold short has therefore been an
alternative to the «yen - carry» trade which saw market participants
fund investments in various markets by borrowing yen (
at almost zero cost due to the low interest rates in Japan) and selling it for
other currencies, mostly US dollars.
For its new global
fund, Sequoia is already trying to attract investors in China, where
fund managers are looking to gain from growing sources of capital
at wealth management firms, insurers and
other large domestic institutional investors that aim to boost returns in
alternative assets, the people said.
He has over 27 years experience working with hedge
funds, private equity firms and traditional asset managers and has previously held similar roles
at Bloomberg, Citco and
other technology and
alternative fund service providers.
At Cumberland Advisors, we are not exuberant supporters of «2 - and - 20» hedge
funds,
funds of hedge
funds, and
other alternative investments.
At the
other end of the scale, smaller scale farmers selling into niche local markets are successfully exploring a different financing
alternative: crowd -
funding.
Should Barcelona come knocking for him with a reasonable fee, I would not begrudge selling him, with a wealth of
other options
at our disposal, which would give us more
funds to invest in bringing in stronger
alternatives.
Since the 1970's
at least, the U.S. federal government has had an interest in
alternative sources of energy, although
funding for those efforts has risen and fallen with economic conditions, fuel prices, and political administrations, among
other factors.
Besides the fact that
other reformers have already taken aim
at the arguments made in the claptrap, your editor took apart similar arguments made last year in a so - called
alternative accountability push to which Advancement
Fund and Schott are signatories.
The
other problem is that the
funds collected from consumers served by utilities and
alternative energy suppliers are maintained in separate accounts, and the agency can't spend
funds from
alternative suppliers unless it is simultaneously acquiring renewable energy for customers who still buy energy
at the default rate from utilities.
«For new construction and / or rehab projects in the Midwest and
other locations, many borrowers are utilizing
alternative sources of debt and equity, such as historic tax credits, new market tax credits and EB - 5
funding,» says Jim Doyle, senior vice president
at Bellweather Enterprise, a commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company.