Sentences with phrase «by wealthy»

A fund, usually used by wealthy individuals and institutions, which is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds, including selling short, leverage, program trading, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives.

Once retained only by the wealthy, financial advisors now assist all types of investors in making decisions about retirement.

A transfer of property of a stately residence in the late 1800s, first by a wealthy businessman who was facing bankruptcy to the Governor of Vermont, and then the Governor transferred it to the University of Vermont, who still owns it today.

Over the next week, we'll drill down into common financial strategies used by the wealthy and let you know how they can be applied to your life.

He does not encourage the use of exotic tax shelters (used in an unethical manner by some wealthy families) and actually acknowledges that you should consider thinking of the federal government as investment partners and not adversaries.

This decrease in productivity has meant slower wealth creation and this has translated into fewer international luxury purchases by wealthy Chinese buyers.

Venture capital: Equity investment for a company not large enough to go public that is supplied by partnerships set up to pool funds and invest in untried companies, by wealthy individuals, or by large institutional investors.

The «Steady Eddy» approach (popularized by Wealthy Barber author David Chilton) shows someone who starts contributing for retirement in their 20s.

Offshore accounts are used by wealthy individuals and corporations around the world as a perfectly legal way to reduce their tax burden, although the anonymity provided to account holders has also led to associations with tax evasion, money laundering and organized crime.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer issued a statement on Sunday accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of failing to crack down on «tax avoidance schemes used by his wealthy friends.»

Rather, interest - only mortgages are primarily taken on by wealthy homebuyers, or by those who have reliable but inconsistent income streams.

Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi's most powerful men.

Some small and very specialized breeding operations bred saddle horses for hunter and jumper competitions — these tended to be small - scale operations owned by wealthy private breeders who kept one or two horses at stud.

With his wife, Paola, in agreement with the plan, Brunetti is off to stay by himself in a villa that's owned by a wealthy relative just a short boat trip away on the nearby island of Sant» Erasmo, in the Venetian Lagoon.

Friends and family in New Orleans have long expressed the view that the drug problem in town was exacerbated by the wealthy as a way to do a land grab.

On an outing one - summer day in 1914, a motorcar driven by a wealthy factory owner, Henry Kaufman, broadsides their carriage.

The fact that a particular kind of bathtub was invented in 1868, and first installed by a wealthy urbanite in 1869, didn't necessarily mean that my heroine in A Gift for Guile was likely to see it three years later in an older, mid-range hotel.

It's the story of Adam Raine whose life is repeatedly transformed by fate, first when his mother dies in an accident and his father moves him to a mining town in Northern England, and later when he is adopted by a wealthy family after his father's death.

Born to poor ethnic Koreans but raised by wealthy Japanese, Hata falls in love with a comfort woman during the war.

benefits be taken away while my loan interest rates skyrocket as my savings are depleted by the wealthy - again.

Additionally, his desire to secure a rich benefactor to fund his excavations was standard operating procedure in the field; for example, the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923 was made by archaeologist Howard Carter, but financed by the wealthy George Herbert, 5th Lord of Carnarvon.

The big ones are all owned by wealthy owners more interested in power than profits.

Its modern history begins in 1898 when it was purchased by the St. Petersburg Insurance Association and rented out to the North Homebuilding Society headed by wealthy railroad entrepreneur Savva Mamontov.

Maisie is engaged by a wealthy and highly respected self - made businessman and philanthropist, Joseph Waite, to find his daughter Charlotte, who has, once again, run away from home.

[54] While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

In the last election cycle, they were joined by wealthy out - of - town contributors, such as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.»

As early as colonial America, we saw education in a variety of ways conducted by the wealthy or offered to the general population by the wealthy or by religious groups.

And then there's the time - honored version of personalization employed by the wealthy: tutoring.

Politicians supporting them are financially backed by wealthy individuals and organizations that are not motivated toward raising our youngsters to be competent citizens in a democracy.

It's easy to feel cynical and even angry while reading «The Prize,» a stunning account of efforts by wealthy outsiders and ambitious politicians to fix Newark's failing public schools.

Such philanthropy has sparked a debate about whether American democracy is well - served by wealthy people who pour part of their fortunes into their pet projects — regardless of whether they are grounded in research — to such a degree that public policy and funding follow.

One side, backed by rank - and - file teachers and their democratically - elected representatives, sees poverty and segregation as central issues to be addressed though education reform as well as health and housing programs; the other side, backed by wealthy interests, sees poverty as an excuse and unions as the problem.

-- major funding from AFT), who together launched a website calling DFER and its supporters «Democrats in name only,» while insinuating that the organization is a kind of political Trojan Horse backed by wealthy GOP donors like the Koch Brothers and Betsy DeVos.

Progressive opponents of Common Core worry the standards are part of a movement to privatize education, underwritten by wealthy businessmen like Bill Gates.

Yet despite the evidence, our political leaders push the failed schemes, simply because they are backed by the wealthy and powerful.

Shining Rock is a member of a growing U.S. network of charters pushed by the Challenge Foundation, a group funded by a wealthy, Oregon businessman who's been a national advocate for school choice and other right - wing causes.

The ASD model is controversial, has seen mixed results, and is a model being considered behind closed doors by North Carolina's own lawmakers right now thanks to lobbying efforts by a wealthy Oregonian businessman.

But issues surrounding charter schools have become particularly contentious at the ballot box in recent years as candidates supported by wealthy charter school advocates have increasingly squared off against those backed by teachers» unions in local and state elections.

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.

It also covers the issue of tax avoidance schemes by wealthy individuals.

Although some grassroots parents undoubtedly did support the bill, it was the product of powerful political figures, backed by the wealthy foundations that shape much of the country's debate over education reform.

The privatization agenda was birthed by segregationists in the 1950s, but it was kept alive in subsequent decades by Milton Friedman and sustained by wealthy conservative donors (and the infrastructure built with their dollars).

But that attempt failed, and it was orchestrated not by parents but by an outside organization: Parent Revolution, founded by charter school operator Steve Barr and funded by wealthy foundations.

«A stunning account of efforts by wealthy outsiders and ambitious politicians to fix Newark's failing public schools.

There's nothing like a mid-summer «scandal» to get the education press buzzing, and there's little doubt that the media will continue to have a field day with revelations that Tony Bennett worked to change Indiana's A — F grading system after learning that a high - performing school started by a wealthy donor would receive a mediocre C.

In France, during the 1700s, flour was being used so much (about one pound per person per week) by wealthy people to powder their hair that there was a shortage of flour.

Math was used by tradesmen, but not by the wealthy elite.

A new effort by wealthy Democrats to create and finance a network of think tanks to rival similar institutions on the political right will include efforts to nurture what backers consider progressive ideas and programs for education.

This film takes us back to the great depression era on the west coast where hordes of homeless roamed the lands looking for jobs and were taken advantage of by wealthy plantation owners.