Sentences with phrase «dollar fund aimed»

HONG KONG (Reuters)- NIO Capital, an investment firm founded by leading Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO, is in talks with prospective investors to raise up to $ 500 million in a dollar fund aimed at the country's auto sector, people with knowledge of the plans said.

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The private sector has matched public funds dollar for dollar in 2017 to support the Historic Heart of Perth project, which aims to revitalise the east end precinct through public art and streetscape improvements.

Brian Wilcove, partner at Artiman Ventures, an early - stage venture fund in Silicon Valley that invests in companies aiming to disrupt multibillion - dollar markets, seconds this prediction.

Hopu's new fund, its third one denominated in U.S. dollars, has already received more than $ 1 billion in commitments and is aiming to secure $ 2 billion in total by year - end, according to the people.

It is a fund of 86 Million dollars which the organization aims at distributing to organizations over time.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

The Times also noted in 2015 that Coca - Cola and candy manufacturers spent millions of dollars funding research aimed at disproving any link between sugar consumption and obesity.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

Adam: We aim to keep the website free so that more and more guys will use it, and thus we will be able to fund the website with advertising dollars.

The debate is about what strings should be tied to those federal dollars, and toward which reforms the funding should be aimed.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

At the same time, Corbett scrapped a school funding formula that aimed to send more state dollars to schools serving high numbers of needy students.

The expressions of concern come as Moskowitz aims to harness tens of millions of dollars in public and private funds to expand the network from its current 34 schools, serving 11,000 students, to 100 schools and 50,000 students over the next decade.

Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on July 1, 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending decisions.

Limited is aiming to use its huge billion dollar cash pile for funding the growth of the company which includes acquisitions, which is the tech giant's investor relations main person stated, as more and more shareholders are clamoring for larger dividends.

The Portfolio will attempt to reduce its currency exposure to non-U.S. dollar currencies by implementing a currency hedging strategy that is aimed at protecting the Portfolio from non-U.S. dollar currency fluctuations in respect of units it owns in Underlying Funds.

This one requires at least as much care as the selection of a breed, for the determination to bring more puppies into the world should be based on more than wanting the kids to see the miracle of birth or aiming to make a few dollars for the vacation fund.

Billions of dollars are committed each year to the international fight against climate change, but the majority of these funds focus on mitigation initiatives, mainly renewable energy, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Billions upon billions of dollars have been spent by the dirty energy industry in North America to set up astroturf organizations, to fund political campaigns, and to buy advertisements aimed at keeping the populace in the dark about their destructive practices.

Thomson Reuters Foundation: India's National Action Plan for Climate Change, a hugely ambitious programme requiring billions of dollars, is being starved of funds, officials say, as a new law aimed at giving food to the needy threatens to eat up a large chunk of government spending.

The Maine Early Learning Investment Group (MELIG), which was created in January 2012, has pledged to help raise millions of dollars in private funds to achieve this aim.