Sentences with phrase «costs against funds»

Morningstar tested funds with strong performance and high costs against funds with poor performance and low costs.

Not exact matches

In February, the agency filed a lawsuit against RD Legal Funding LLC, alleging that the lawsuit lender had scammed 9/11 responders by paying high - cost advances on settlement payouts and lying about the terms of the advances.

The ranking was based on five factors: Tier 1 capital compared with risk - weighted assets; nonperforming assets against total assets; loan - loss reserves to nonperforming assets; deposits to funding; and efficiency, a measure of costs to revenue.

CEO Vikram Pandit Kenneth Lewis Company Going Against Him Slow to cut costs, snowballing losses, spins all results positively, voracious consumer of taxpayer funds Bad acquisition of Countrywide, worse deal for Merrill, bonus scandal, gorged on i - bankers at peak of market Going For Him Engineering background, Suaveness.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike» position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).

The Vanguard Group will cheerfully compare expense ratios of its funds against other funds, because Vanguard largely markets itself as the popularizer of low - cost index funds.4 Here for instance is a little thing from Vanguard's description of its Total Stock Market Index Fund:

Although Buffett's $ 1 million bet against a hedge - fund manager was won months ago, he reinforces that victory with some simple advice: Keep your investing costs as low as possible.

Yet Canadian banks were only too happy to comply, helping Kinder Morgan Canada raise $ 4 billion for pipeline construction, a $ 1 - billion contingency fund against cost overruns, and $ 550 million in preferred shares.

This is a type of self - funded insurance against unexpected costs that might otherwise throw you off - track.

«Against the underlying balance of available funds we have, as mentioned above, invested strongly in player acquisitions during the summer at a total transfer in cost of more than # 90 million with additional significant commitments to player wages, agent's fees and performance related contingencies on top of that.»

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the Trump administration but says he was terminated because he is a crucial witness in the Russia investigation, is raising funds to help cover costs defending against other ongoing government probes.

19 October 2010 — ELECTORAL COMMISSION Question: To Ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost to public funds of the case by the Electoral Commission against the United Kingdom Independence Party.

This sounds reasonable but it is designed to warn off potential donors to fighting funds who may fear becoming liable to pay the very high costs of the organisation they are taking action against.

(Posted 24 December 2011) Significant current scandals, and those yet to come In no particular order Top salaries and bonuses - boardroom and shareholder individual responsibility The multiple between top and average pay Lawyers fees - the cost of the legal process Medical negligence claims against the NHS Care and treatment in the NHS «No win, no fee» personal injury compensation Democracy and the voting system Lords reform Political party funding The domestic energy market and pricing The Tax system and its inefficiencies and complexities Subsidies for new energy generation schemes The amount of crime fuelled by Drugs The availability of drugs in prison.

The most obvious politician's argument against funding research in pure mathematics is that it costs money and it isn't useful.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, engaged in all - out war against GOP representatives following an amendment that would have relieved counties of paying into Medicaid by 2020, a measure he said would cost the state $ 2.3 billion over four years — and $ 6.9 billion when paired with estimates of lost federal funding.

«It's not sustainable, and what they do is they keep pushing the cost down to the local taxpayer, saying, «We cut at the state level», which is true, but somehow it has to get funded, which really pits the taxpayer against the school district,» Brown said.

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

«I and other members of the Senate Democratic conference stood firm against mid-year cuts to schools and also rejected health care cuts that would have cost New York hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funds,» Onorato said.

This time, against the backdrop of the openly unpleasant relationship between de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the city is going solo — the full capital cost and operating costs will be funded by the city.

In 2011, European researchers set up TOSCA, a COST - funded international network aiming to offer a better understanding of the Sun's effect on climate, against the backdrop of global warming.

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Looking at the worst of all the political promises (flat cash funding per pupil) set against cost increases averaging at 1.5 % (approximately 8 % over five years), the situation looks very bleak, with the prospect of worse to come.

The program will establish a nonrefundable tax credit which may be applied against the individual income tax, corporate income tax, the limited liability entity tax, or the bank franchise tax, for donations to fund scholarships for Kentucky families so that they can afford the cost of nonpublic school tuition or other important educational services.

In his March 15 op - ed, «Confronting the Scheme to Gamble With Connecticut Special Education Funds,» Robert Cotto Jr. makes a number of factually inaccurate claims, and uses a «greatest hits» compilation of logical fallacies, to argue against the creation of a Special Education Predictable Cost Cooperative, which will protect students, improve cost predictability, and increase equity for our state's school districts and communitCost Cooperative, which will protect students, improve cost predictability, and increase equity for our state's school districts and communitcost predictability, and increase equity for our state's school districts and communities.

If you were to draw only a small amount against your credit line, those charges and closing costs would substantially increase the cost of the funds borrowed.

IRR is also comparable against annualized market and fund returns, and cost of debt or leverage so it gives an excellent idea of portfolio performance.

Low - cost index funds (or exchange traded funds) give investors a big leg up against the vast majority of actively managed funds that charge more than 2 % of assets annually because most of the active funds fail to earn back the fees they charge.

This memo was issued after the circuit court of appeals asked for guidance in a case against United Student Aid Funds (USA Funds) challenging the assessment of collection costs.

For these professionals, liquid bond ETFs are a convenient, diversified way to hedge against rising rates and seek higher yields, at lower cost than active mutual funds.

However a homeowner decides to procure the funds necessary for a home remodeling project, he should balance the costs of interest and closing costs against the benefits that will come from the work.

Index A published interest rate against which lenders measure the difference between the current interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage and that earned by other investments (such as one, three, and five year U.S. Treasury security yields, the monthly average interest rate on loans closed by savings and loan institutions, and the monthly average costs - of - funds incurred by savings and loans), which is then used to adjust the interest rate on an adjustable mortgage up or down.

Use of stock funds, vs. individual stocks, is an easy and low - cost way to guard against catastrophic events that regularly impact individual companies and avoids trying to pick out the relatively few winners in a market composed mostly of losers.

In these cases, the interest you pay on the borrowed funds, i.e. the «carrying costs» for your investments, would be deductible against the income produced by the investments purchased.

And just an FYI: if you have 500k or more, you qualify for the J series, where the Dividend fund cost you 2.18 %, million plus and you are into the U series where roughly half of the former MER is now a management fee and deductible against other forms of investment income and income depending on your province of residence.

The terms of the master - feeder exemptive relief provided for NextShares prescribe that a master fund with one or more feeder funds transacting with the master fund on a cash basis and other feeder funds that transact primarily in kind should transact with each feeder fund on a basis that protects the master fund (and, indirectly, other feeder funds) against the costs of accommodating the feeder fund's inflows and outflows.

The flexibility and low adjusted interest rates associated with borrowing against cash value life insurance makes such an option well worth considering if you are looking to fund short - term cash needs without unduly disrupting your long - term financial plans or incurring significant loan costs.

Your lender compares what you pay into escrow against actual and projected costs for taxes and insurance, and provides an annual accounting of escrow funds collected and spent.

The debate, in a nutshell, goes something like this: Why pay higher fees for an actively managed fund that has a shot at posting much bigger returns than the index it's measured against but which also runs the risk of posting smaller returns, when you can buy a low - cost index fund, such as those that track the performance of the S&P 500 index, which pretty much guarantees that your returns will be in line with the index?

There is no additional cost associated with this privilege until we pay an item that is drawn against insufficient funds.

Fees that are added on, like 401 (k) fees and mutual fund costs, compound AGAINST you.

Basic Information and Costs The fund is benchmarked against S&P BSE 100.

It is an argument, and an old one, against actively managed mutual funds, which have high expense ratios and incur significant transaction costs.

The Fund Services Agreements with Gemini Fund Services, LLC («GFS») provides that the Registrant agrees to indemnify and hold GFS harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, costs, charges, reasonable counsel fees, payments, expenses and

We also have nothing against lower - cost active funds; it's the high - cost, index - hugging, funds that we rage against

The Underwriting Agreement between the Trust and Northern Lights Distributors, LLC («NLD») provides that the Registrant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold NLD, its several officers and directors, and any person who controls NLD within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act free and harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities and expenses (including the reasonable cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands or liabilities and any reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection therewith) which NLD, its officers and directors, or any such controlling persons, may incur under the Securities Act, the 1940 Act, or common law or otherwise, arising out of or based upon: (i) any untrue statement, or alleged untrue statement, of a material fact required to be stated in either any Registration Statement or any Prospectus, (ii) any omission, or alleged omission, to state a material fact required to be stated in any Registration Statement or any Prospectus or necessary to make the statements in any of them not misleading, (iii) the Registrant's failure to maintain an effective Registration statement and Prospectus with respect to Shares of the Funds that are the subject of the claim or demand, or (iv) the Registrant's failure to provide NLD with advertising or sales materials to be filed with the FINRA on a timely basis.

A short sale is «against the box» to the extent a Fund contemporaneously owns, or has the right to obtain at no added cost, securities identical to those sold short.

Standard theory says that you want to invest in low - cost funds (like those provided by Vanguard), and you want to have enough variety to protect against risk.

You'll need to weigh up fees and costs against other important factors like risk, likely returns and services before you choose a super fund.

While the Vulcan fund benchmarks itself against the Russell 2000 Value index, the Russell 2000 is terribly flawed and has historically lost about 1 % to 2 % a year to index reconstitution costs.