Sentences with phrase «company against the fund»

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This is the third one filed against the company, following the drugstore chain's and Partner Fund Management's (PFM), but the first that's seeking class - action status.

Hargreaves Lansdown, a financial services company, also launched two bitcoin ETFs (exchange - traded funds) for its consumer investors in June — though it cautions against investing for most customers.

It was later discovered that Thiel had funded Hogan's successful legal case against the media company.

• FLX Bio Inc, a South San Francisco - based biopharmaceutical company focused on activating the immune system against cancer, raised $ 60 million in Series C funding.

NEW YORK, May 3 - Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

In today's world, even a really well - funded startup company will have trouble competing when it's up against a «super-have» company backed by a mega-fund.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

Zimmer explained that when motivating employees of Lyft to work hard against Uber — which has six times the funding of Lyft, and is the highest - valued private startup in the world — he focuses on the company's «humanity:» the fact that it values person - to - person interaction.

Icahn also told CNBC on Thursday that he has made $ 1 billion on paper on his long bet on Herbalife, a company that fellow hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman bet against and recently closed his disastrous position entirely.

ACA Lawyers has obtained funding to mount a class action against mining services firm WorleyParsons, claiming that it lacked transparency around the company's performance last year.

Citation Resources has appointed KordaMentha as voluntary administrators, while the oil and gas company continues to pursue recovery of funds through a civil action against former director Peter Landau.

The corporate watchdog has begun civil penalty proceedings against Padbury Mining and two of its directors over statements made last year claiming the company had lined up $ 6 billion in equity to fund construction of a port and rail network at Oakajee north of Geraldton.

Hedge funds such as Elliott Management Corp and D.E. Shaw are still looking for up to $ 5 billion ($ 5.6 billion) in damages in civil suits against Porsche SE, which is now only a holding company that owns a majority stake in the VW group.

Ackman, who runs hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP, has been betting against Herbalife shares since 2012, claiming the company is a pyramid scheme — where new investors unwittingly fund the profits of older investors.

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

The start - up founder had, it seems, conceived of his postings as a way to help other company founders understand what a funding round looks like from the inside, and the effect was that the investment firms began bidding against one another.

NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

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.

«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.

ACTION taken against an Australian Internet domain name company by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has resulted in the establishment of a $ 250,000 compensation trust fund.

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In 1989, he acquired $ 350 million of preferred stock in US Airways to protect the company against a hostile takeover from hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, reports Forbes.

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Allegations of excessive index fund fees in retirement plans are at the heart of a new proposed class action lawsuit brought by New York Life Insurance Co. employees against the company.

Investors should stick to larger companies at least until the end of June, as the enforcement of stronger supervision against the financial markets could raise their wariness for high - flying smaller firms, according to Wu Kan, a fund manager at Shanshan Finance.

WSJ reports that just a few days ago Tesla secured up to $ 750 million in additional funding — a small bolster against the company's current cash burn, which blew through $ 500 million in the first quarter of 2015 alone.

Other buyout funds which do not have a presence in the consumer and healthcare industries and would not be able to use existing portfolio companies as an acquisition vehicle have been advised against entering the process, they said.

In their class - action lawsuit against FPL, filed in county court September 26, the residents alleged the company misspent those storm - hardening funds.

The law firm has multiple complaints against the company, covering accusations of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) insider trading, undelivered funds, platform breakdowns, and loss of account access, which they are currently investigating.

The sale and filing are intended to preserve the value of GMG's pioneering digital news business, safeguard the jobs of journalists and other staff, and allow GMG to fund the appeal against the $ 130 million judgment in the Hulk Hogan case against the company in a Florida state court.

However, the tally of new financial services company listings decreased by 21 percent against 2016, and the total funds raised decreased by 50 percent.

On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive relief (including an asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor assets from 2005 through 2011.

The majority of our retirement portfolio is in diversified mutual funds but what I have done to diversify even more and to hedge a little against inflation is to invest in stocks of companies where we spend our money.

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.

Now tell us which of these companies actively funds oppression against segments of the population it doesn't like.

It is when those owners use company funds to advance hate groups that are out to work «AGAINST» equality that bothers people.

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

After release of the escrow funds, the Company has remaining claims of approximately R$ 2.8 million that will be pursued against assets held by the defendants in Brazil

According to Wikipedia, the forerunner to the CCF was called the «Guest Choice Network» and was formed «to unite the restaurant and hospitality industries in a campaign to defend their consumers and marketing programs against attacks from anti-smoking, anti-drinking, anti-meat, etc. activists...» It was funded by $ 2.95 million from, you guessed it, Phillip Morris, along with contributions from an unholy alliance of slot machine manufacturers, beer companies, meat processors and cigar makers.

New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.

He said a mansion tax for those living in houses worth over # 2 million, moves against tax avoidance including closing hedge fund tax loopholes and a raid on tobacco companies» profits would help pay to relieve NHS workers of the «huge future pressures» they face.

The initial profit warning on July 10th 2017 saw the share price tumble and hedge funds double down on their bets against the company's survival.

Alleged Corruption: How Dariye Diverted N204m to Own Company - Witness The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has presented more evidence against a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who is being prosecuted on a 23 - count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, of the Federal Capital Territory, -LSB-...]

Qualcomm Discloses Political Spending New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager and trustee of the state retirement fund, has dropped a lawsuit against wireless tech giant Qualcomm following the company's decision to disclose its political expenditures.

The campaign against, which is funded by billionaires, is more than enough to offset multi-national companies.

The race has become something of a proxy war for the fight over the online rental site Airbnb, with the company funding advertising against Serino and an independent expenditure campaign backed by the Hotel Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York running commercials critical of Gipson.

There were fears that if the ruling went against the government, it would have had to force companies to contribute far more to the Pension Protection Fund to enable it to cover 100 per cent of workers» pensions, compared to just 90 per cent now.

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..

But, he said that he has been the target of more than $ 11 million in advertising directed against him since he took office in January 2014, from pro-charter school interests, hedge funders and the car - hail company Uber.