Sentences with phrase «dollars of funds held»

And there are security concerns as well — a software bug recently exposed millions of dollars of funds held in an Ethereum application.

Not exact matches

The window cracked open earlier this year when billionaire Peter Thiel's investment firm Founders Fund made a multimillion - dollar investment in Privateer Holdings, which raised $ 82 million for its cannabis businesses, including Marley Natural (in partnership with the family of the late reggae singer Bob).

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).

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.

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).

Its relatively high global position reflects the special place the Australian dollar holds in portfolios of international funds managers because of its relation to commodity prices, offering a degree of diversification from other currencies.

«The really tricky question for regulators is how we structure those type of rules in light of the fact that the funds these firms hold are not denominated in dollars or other forms of traditional fiat currencies,» Lawsky said.

Mom and pop retail investors are exposed to billions of dollars of potential losses through their holdings of Puerto Rican municipal bonds, either directly or in mutual funds.

In the Strategic Growth Fund, the dollar value of our index shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and we don't short individual stocks.

Credit Suisse Credit Suisse, the Fund's largest holding, had a volatile quarter due to recent news, but it ended the quarter with a gain of 6.5 % in U.S. dollar terms over the period.

Overall, the Strategic Total Return Fund remains positioned primarily to benefit from downward pressure on real interest rates and the U.S. dollar, but our overall exposure to risk is relatively conservative in all of the asset classes we hold - TIPS, precious metals, utilities, U.S. agency notes, and foreign government securities.

For purposes of the category definition, up to 30 % of a Fund's assets may be held in Foreign Fixed Income products which will be treated as Canadian content provided that the currency exposure on those holdings is hedged into Canadian Dollars.

DeePhi Tech (深鉴科技), a 1 - year - old, Beijing - based AI firm that provides deep learning solutions, has raised tens of millions of US dollars in Series A funding from investors including Xilinx (赛灵思), MediaTek (联发科), Tsinghua Holdings (清华控股), Sigma Square (方和资本), GSR Ventures (金沙江创投) and Banyan Capital (高榕资本).

All have received tens of thousands of dollars for holding the vice chair post for the funds available for the committee chair.

So firm was Lopez's hold on his Democrat - dominated borough that elected officials and would - be elected officials alike would routinely make the pilgrimage to the taxpayer - funded Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Center picnic he threw every year, and those with the power to do so approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of NYC and state member items that the assemblyman used to build his senior services empire.

The governor has held an annual contest to make regions of the state compete to win millions of dollars in economic development funds.

Advocates spent a million dollars on television ads and countless hours lobbying and holding demonstrations in favor of adopting a publicly funded, matching small donor system for statewide races, including the governor and the legislature.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

In order to change the culture of corruption which puts democracy up for auction, we need wholesale campaign finance reform, built around a system of small dollar matching funds, to hold elected accountable to their constituents.

«At the time of the state parks vote, the League of Conservation Voters said that they would hold accountable all lawmakers who voted in FAVOR of opening the parks by stripping millions of dollars from the Environmental Protection Fund, calling the deal «a colossal blunder,»» Reif said.

As part of the $ 2.8 billion budget reduction plan legislators were poised to vote on, the state will likely hold up for six months millions of dollars in HEAL NY funds to Flushing Hospital, Jamaica Hospital, Elmhurst Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital in Astoria and Forest Hills Hospital, according to Stavisky.

Gov. David Paterson isn't backing down on cutting state spending, including holding back on millions of dollars of already allocated funds to schools.

where hedge - fund dollars are used to support causes ranging from criminal justice reform to reducing the costs of public pensions (including those held by veteran teachers).

Teach for America's major donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Walton Family Foundation, run by the heirs to the Walmart fortune; the Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, run by the real estate billionaire and Democratic donor; and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, where hedge - fund dollars are used to support causes ranging from criminal justice reform to reducing the costs of public pensions (including those held by veteran teachers).

New York City Charter Schools Hold Day of Action, Voter Registration Drive and Call for Fair Funding from Albany 40,000 NYC Charter Kids Only Receive 68 Cents on the Dollar Compared to Other Public School Children

We do not support this corporate empowerment bill that uses a parent's love to «pull the trigger» and pass all that they hold dear into the hands of a for - profit corporation eager to peel off a chunk of every child's per pupil funding dollars for themselves.

The Obama administration's proposal to reserve 25 percent of Title II, Part A funds for competitive grants to states and districts to improve educator evaluation and licensure is a modest first step, but states and districts must also be held accountable for the use of these federal dollars.

Lipper published a study several years ago that estimated the average mutual fund carries transaction expenses of about 0.15 % per year - which can cost investors with larger share holdings thousands of dollars over time.

You can hold units of any fund / portfolio available for purchase in U.S. dollars in non-registered accounts with CIBC Securities Inc..

Investors rewarded the fund by entrusting it with billions of dollars in assets; the fund held over $ 11 billion at its peak.

In both cases, the dollar amount of your total holding will increase over time if the fund delivers a positive return, but the gain / loss column in your account summary will show the same misleading price decline.

The U.S. dollar versions of funds / portfolios can be held within non-registered CIBC Investor Services Inc. accounts.

Funds in the Canadian Inflation Protected Fixed Income category must invest at least 90 % of their fixed income holdings in inflation protected fixed - income securities denominated in Canadian dollars.

For purposes of the category definition, up to 30 % of a Fund's assets may be held in Foreign Fixed Income products which will be treated as Canadian content provided that the currency exposure on those holdings is hedged into Canadian Dollars.

Funds in the Canadian Fixed Income category must invest at least 90 % of their fixed income holdings in Canadian dollars with an average duration greater than 3.5 years and less than 9.0 years.

Finally, concerning a smaller cash emergency fund, you still might chose to hold some amount of cash in a taxable account for ready access — perhaps a few thousand dollars or more.

The dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, but the Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged because the return / risk profile of this particular Climate hasn't been favorable on average.

Like market volatility, fluctuations in the value of the Canadian dollar can have an impact on the returns of mutual funds holding foreign securities, such as U.S. equities.

However, considering this fund is holding so many great companies that continue to make billions of dollars, I think this fund is a great investing opportunity for those who are beginning to invest and who will have the time and patience to invest in it.

Let's take the iShares CDN S&P 500 Index Fund (XSP), which holds the iShares S&P 500 Index (IVV) and hedges the exposure to US dollars for an extra MER of 0.15 %.

Funds in the Canadian Long Term Fixed Income category must invest at least 90 % of their fixed income holdings in fixed - income securities denominated in Canadian dollars with an average duration greater than 9.0 years.

Table 2 shows the dollar - weighted return, the buy - and - hold return, and the gap between them for different types of funds.

Bear Stearns averted a meltdown this time, but if delinquencies and defaults on subprime loans surge, Wall Street firms, hedge funds and pension funds could be left holding billions of dollars in bonds and securities backed by loans that are quickly losing their value.

Appendix: Measuring Dollar - Weighted Average Returns The time - weighted or buy - and - hold return of a value fund is easy to calculate: The geometric average of its reported returns is what you would have earned had you bought in at the beginning of a period and never sold.

Money market funds that are offered by the big - name mutual fund companies hold billions of dollars of cash for investors.

Brokers are graded here on their webpage for trading stocks, bonds and funds; on the range of investment products clients can buy online; and the availability of registered accounts that can hold U.S. dollars (many brokers force a conversion into Canadian dollars when clients sell U.S. stocks or receive dividends from such stocks).

Specialist fund providers such as Vanguard (see related article — The man behind the ETF index revolution: John C Bogle) and Blackrock iShares hold assets in the trillions of dollars with annual inflows into ETFs in the billions.

One commenter pointed out that what matters to Canadian investors is the performance of a currency - neutral fund such as XSP compared to the returns in Canadian dollars of a direct holding in a fund like IVV, not dry discussions of tracking error.

The extent to which the composition of the investment assets of the Underlying Funds held by each Portfolio exposes the Portfolio to the risk of movement in the value of non-U.S. currencies in relation to the U.S. dollar will be monitored on an ongoing basis.

The fund's largest holdings include the usual suspects — government bonds, a couple of ETFs (Canadian Dollar hedged, of course), and banks that aren't Bank of Montreal, because apparently this fund manager WANTS to get fired.