Sentences with phrase «far more funding»

Were it not for the existence of the charter school movement, the taxpayers of California would have had to contribute far more funding to public schools over the last twenty years - billions more than any amount cited in the Cato study.

Teachers unions, critical of Obama's plan, say educators should be given far more funding and other help to lift the performance of struggling students.

Far more funding for the military and security agencies is required.»

But that overhaul would have to go a lot further (and provide far more funding) than the child nutrition legislation currently stalled in Congress.

Company executives have been on the road for the last week meeting with potential investors, and Thomson Reuters IFR reported on Friday that the deal is oversubscribed, meaning far more fund managers want a slice than can be accommodated.

Most advisors recommend far more funds and asset classes.

«A successful REDD mechanism would direct far more funds to tropical forests than are currently available for biodiversity conservation.

Not exact matches

«The gap for ETFs vs. TIFs (as Bogle calls traditional index funds) is no doubt wider, given that the ETF investor base is much different and the use cases for ETFs are far more varied (hedging, shorting, arb trades, etc.) than those for TIFs (buy, hold, rebalance).

Female founders received more venture capital funding in 2017 compared to previous years, but it was still far less than their male counterparts.

Financial technology («fintech») startups have received more than $ 11 billion in venture capital funding so far this year, 83 % more than all of last year, according to CB Insights.

Social media stocks to see further sell - off because more data issues will come to light, fund manager says

The ability of Italian banks to access markets for funding «has become more difficult and expensive» in 2016 due to the country's political instability and a slower reform implementation, according to credit ratings agency Fitch, adding that such capacity could deteriorate further.

So far, Deep Genomics has relied on angel funding and client revenue to grow, though Frey doesn't rule out raising more as the company refines its techniques and boosts the system's accuracy.

The hackers of today are far more skilled, organized and well funded than ever before.

Metzger points out that there are far more asteroids near Earth than could ever be explored solely through scientific funding, and highlights the role terrestrial mining operations have played in expanding geologic knowledge.

So far, the Capital Connections Series has attracted five capital market participants: BMO Capital Markets, Cormark Securities Inc., Mackie Research Capital Corporation, Versant Partners Inc., and The Equicom Group Inc. «It's sometimes hard [for technology companies] to be heard, appreciated and actually funded through the more obvious venture channels,» says Reid.

It said Glencore and its subsidiaries were able to borrow funds far more cheaply than the level at which it lent on to the venture.

For instance, women - run companies are far more likely to get funding through peer investing than through traditional funds.

The last thing you want to do is launch a campaign, raise funds and then realize that a product idea not possible, will take twice as long or end up costing far more than what was charged for the perks.

So remember, the further along your venture stage, the more likely it is that you'll be able to attract funding.

It also recently launched a VR division with far greater aspirations and invested in the startup Magic Leap, which has raised more than $ 1.3 billion in funding.

What's more, that funding round was likely a down round — when funding is raised at a valuation lower than the previous one — according to Fortune, further highlighting the cooling of the investing climate in the tech industry.

While women typically face gender - discrimination or bias in traditional sources of funding like venture capital or banking, crowdfunding «enables and empowers far more female decision - makers — as project backers and «micro-VCs» — than within traditional finance,» the report argues.

That's a far more effective route for winning over retail investors than institutional investors — the hedge funds, long - only asset managers, and sovereign wealth funds accustomed to the personal touch and assurances of investment bankers.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

Through interviews with more than 40 people who have dealt with the hedge fund — including bankers, advisers, board members of various companies, and current and former employees of the firm — Fortune has learned previously unreported details that reveal just how far Elliott will go to win.

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.

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).

While $ 2,400 seems like not much payoff for a lot of work, it can look far more impressive with time, if it's invested in a low - cost index fund that's earning the S&P 500 average annualized return of 9.8 %.

With the 10 - year yield (risk free rate) at roughly 2.55 %, and the Fed Funds rate at 1.5 % (two more 0.25 % hikes are expected in 2018), it's hard to see interest rates declining much further.

For starters, it's based in Provo, Utah, a state that has attracted more than $ 1 billion in venture funding over the last 18 months yet remains far from Silicon Valley's bustling tech scene.

As more established tech hubs become saturated, making it harder to find talent and raise funding, and protectionist governments continue to build walls, sign Brexits, and reduce startup VISAs, startups are inevitably going to start looking further afield in search of their potential launch pads.

At that point, even if you fail, past investors and people involved with your company will be far more likely to fund your next project if they trust the way you work.

Instead investors were far more interested in Renaissance's Institutional Diversified Alpha (RIDA) fund, which invests in futures and equities.

Over the course of InterWest's ten investment funds, we have raised more than $ 2.8 billion, and provided far more than that in return to our investors.

However, one Yelp reviewer spoke more highly of the Redwood Fund compared with the Aspiration Flagship Fund: «Redwood Fund so far for me seems like a good investment offering.

But despite more than $ 900 million in recorded venture funding in 2017, and more than $ 375 million in known venture funding for the first two months of 2018 so far, traditional VC rounds — convertible notes seed, angel, Series A, Series B, etc. — now pale in comparison to ICOs in terms of dollar volume.

While the state of New York has invested more than $ 900 million of taxpayer funds to date into the project and its associated developments, SolarCity has spent just around $ 20 million in capital expenditures in Buffalo so far, according to multiple sources.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.&raMore than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.&ramore attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

This comes at a time when the SEC is doing everything it can to learn more about cryptocurrencies, sending out subpoenas to crypto funds far and wide, including Arrington XRP Capital.

While the retention of control over funds is often cited as one of the main reasons for pursuing decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, they offer far more than that.

And yet it's become readily apparent to more and more Canadians just how far this modern iteration of Tim Hortons — a company engineered and zapped to life by Wall Street hedge funds and investment bankers eight years ago — has strayed from the warm and fuzzy Tim Hortons of our imaginations.

The lawsuit further alleges that participants were not given information about how much of their assets were allocated to private equity and hedge fund investments or information about how risky and more expensive these assets are.

The Fund held its first close in the first half of 2016 and has already committed more than one third of its capital to portfolio investments, further building on the success of NEC's previous funds.

Since its launch in 2010, the fund has made more than $ 1.3 billion in grants through the end of 2017 to 6,000 organizations that further Goldman Sachs Gives» mission of fostering innovative ideas, solving economic and social issues, and enabling progress in underserved communities worldwide.

Beijing - based ByteDance, more famously known for its personalized news aggregator app Toutiao, took the crown as the most well - funded AI startup of the year with $ 3.1 billion in investments so far.

The private equity angle — a familiar name in the recent flurries of LBOs that collapsed into bankruptcies, including iHeartMedia, Toys «R» Us, Gymboree: Bain Capital acquired Guitar Center in an LBO during the boom in 2007, whereby the acquired company took on a large amount of debt to fund its own acquisition, and then took on more debt to expand further.

«Far more money than before (about $ 9 trillion of assets, which represents about 30 % of total mutual fund long - term assets) is managed passively in index funds or ETFs (both of which are very easy to get out of).

«Berkshire has access to two low - cost, non-perilous sources of leverage that allow us to safely own far more assets than our equity capital alone would permit: deferred taxes and «float,» the funds of others that our insurance business holds because it receives premiums before needing to pay out losses»

Some of these funds provide far more liquidity to the customer than the underlying assets in the fund, and it is reasonable to worry about what would happen if these funds went into large liquidation.