Sentences with phrase «dollars of funding by»

In Grand Rapids, the YMCA, the science museum, universities, and the local school district, with millions of dollars of funding by «XQ: The Super School,» are conspiring to replace teachers and their -LSB-...]

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In addition to providing tools that allow users to communicate with counterparties, TradeBlock also provides a US dollar denominated reference rate for digital currencies, which is used by a number of investment trusts and funds.

That is true, but you also have to know that the vast majority of companies that are funded by VC firms never get close to the million - dollar paydays.

The company has the funding to go head - to head with tech giants, and is on target to raise a billion dollars by the end of 2017, she said.

In fact, tens of millions of dollars have just been allocated to more than 15 algorithms created by members of Quantopian, a «crowd - sourced» hedge fund.

In the years prior to 2008, Hollywood saw production explode, fed by billions of dollars flowing in from flush Wall Street funds.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

«On a cumulative basis there has not been a dollar added to the US stock market since the end of the financial crisis by retail investors and pension funds.»

Cameron said the purpose of the fund set up by his father Ian, a stockbroker, in 1982 had been to service clients investing in dollar securities.

It's calculated annually by dividing operating expenses by the average dollar value of the fund's assets — lowering returns for investors, which is why it's important to know.

When said individual racks up compensation in the multiple tens of millions of dollars from an industry that was bailed out by taxpayer funds and then complains about changes in regulatory oversight, you know that individual is tone deaf.

And by leveraging the above tips, hopefully more technology startups may boost their odds of taking a cut of the more than the $ 1 billion dollar pie of Kickstarter funding the platform has accrued so far.

Southwestern Ontario manufacturers who may be underwhelmed by the budget are reminded of past triumphs, including the elimination of tariffs on manufacturing inputs, an $ 80 million dollar loan for a Ford expansion in Windsor, the Factory of the Future project in London and funds for Fibracast in Hamilton through the Advanced Manufacturing Fund.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The billions of dollars managed by mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, university endowments, pensions, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and the like need to find returns for their money.

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

Many EM funds also carry currency risk — that is, the value of their holdings vary not just by increasing or decreasing security prices, but by the value of their currencies relative to the dollar.

Over a 12 - month period (ended June 30, 2017), global hedge funds, as measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, delivered decent gains of 6.0 % in US dollar terms.1 That's a vast improvement in the performance of these alternative investments from the prior two years.

Highland Funds is the retail arm of Highland Capital Management, L.P. a multibillion - dollar global alternative investment manager founded in 1993 by Jim Dondero and Mark Okada.

Ordinarily, creating trillions of dollars of reserves through QE (or buying a $ 1 trillion coin) would overwhelm any conceivable demand by banks for interbank funds, forcing the Fed funds rate down to zero.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

Climate Bonds Initiative's mission is to grow capital into climate solutions by promoting green bonds to investors, primarily pension and insurance funds filled with trillions of dollars of investment - ready capital.

In response, the Fed reduced the federal funds rate to essentially zero by mid-December, instituted swap lines to provide dollar liquidity to foreign central banks, added new liquidity facilities to target specific sectors of the shadow banking system and began to expand its balance sheet through asset purchases.

The CEO demonstrated willingness to bite the hand that feeds by ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks, some of which have helped the company raise billions of dollars to fund his other - worldly ambitions.

Airbnb's funding talks, which were earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal, are another example of the fast growth and interest in so - called on - demand start - ups, many of which are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars and ever - climbing valuations in their quests to upend existing industries.

Many Republicans in Congress were already balking at the $ 2 billion cost of the project, and just two months ago, Congress shortchanged its funding by hundreds of millions of dollars, as the GSA noted.

In regard to the ETF universe, the most popular US Dollar ETF is the DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund, which was launched by the PowerShares family of exchange traded funds.

But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental» funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disasters.

Under CBO's Alternative Fiscal Scenario — which assumes many of the 2017 tax law's expiring provisions and other temporary tax cuts are made permanent, the recent spending deal is extended so that most discretionary spending grows with inflation, and emergency funding for disasters is kept in line with its historical average — deficits will exceed the two - trillion dollar mark by 2028.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

Invested assets, an important indicator of the size of client funds managed by the bank, dropped for the first time since June as currency swings from a weaker dollar left their mark.

Investors pay higher ongoing expenses and commissions, a portion of this amount is routed by the fund to the advisor in 12b - 1 fees, commissions, soft dollars, shelf space and marketing support, and the fund family keeps its share as a cost of managing and marketing the fund.

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

... You have access to the stock picks made by fund managers who often spend millions of dollars and every waking moment thinking and obsessing about the financial markets.

The recent announcement by European central banks to restrict further sales of gold and the decision by the IMF to fund its debt - relief initiative with off - market transactions, contributed to a sharp recovery in sentiment in the gold market in late September; the gold price in US dollars increased by around 25 per cent in the wake of these decisions, but has since retraced about half of this rise.

In addition, by contributing throughout the year, you can benefit from dollar - cost averaging by buying more units of mutual funds when markets are down and fewer when markets are up.

Nearly a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a million - dollar bet: that by investing in a completely unmanaged, broad - market low - fee index fund, he could beat the gains earned by a high - powered hedge fund with a team of managers at the helm.

However, because of the capital movements of investors who bailed out during periods after the fund had underperformed for awhile, the average investor (weighted by dollars invested) actually turned that 18 % annual gain into an 11 % LOSS per year during the same 10 year period.

But it's important to note that it's difficult to compare venture capital and ICOs by dollars raised, as ICO dollar amounts vary widely by market conditions as well as the value of the underlying currency it accepted as funds.

He spent years at the Trust company of the West rising promptly to become manager of a $ 500 - million fund at age 28, by age 30 he was making a million dollars a year.

Working in the other direction, the investment of the US dollar proceeds of foreign exchange intervention by Asian central banks was supportive of the US Treasury market, as was the very wide spread between 10 - year Treasury yields and the Fed funds rate, particularly in light of the Fed's reaffirmation of its intention to maintain an accommodative monetary policy stance (Table 5, Graph 12).

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

National Charities» donor - advised funds have grown significantly in recent years by number of individual donor - advised funds, the dollar value of grants made to qualified charities, the dollar value of contributions received, and the dollar value of charitable assets.

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.

The investment objective of State Street Institutional Liquid Reserves Fund («ILR» or sometimes referred to in context as the «Fund») is to seek to maximize current income, to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity, by investing in U.S. dollar - denominated money market securities.

The newspaper said that «Founders Fund, the venture - capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars of the volatile cryptocurrency,» bitcoin.

In a typical split dollar arrangement, the employer funds all or part of the cost of providing an employee with life insurance protection and then recoups the cost by sharing in the insurance proceeds at the employee's death.

(1) Churches on base of all religions are funded by the government... yes, your tax dollars are paying for me to be able to enjoy whichever religious service of the 10 denominations that my small base has (not Fort Bragg)... and if I want to be Christian one day, switch to Muslim another, or Jewish another then your tax dollars are still going to pay for me to have freedom of choosing my religion on base.

You got the Vatican, a multi-billion dollar criminal organization, and you have mormons, who HAVE to tthe 10 % of their income, I mean Romneys tithes could probably fund the whole thing by itself, and then you have all these other «charitable» organizations that bilk money from thousands of people.