Sentences with phrase «few big funders»

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Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

Speaking at the Post.Seed Conference on Tuesday, the PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund principal offered what amounted to a critique of the generally accepted model for funding startups, wherein seed and venture investors make lots of small investments in early - stage companies in the hopes that a few will yield big payoffs.

Druckenmiller also highlighted fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros as his second mentor, noting that Soros taught him the importance of making just a few big bets (that is, holding concentrated positions instead of being diversified).

Instead of five big funders, a start - up might attract a few hundred small ones.

So «Apollo is preparing to meet with big debt investors including mutual fund managers in several cities over the next few months to ease concerns that the firm protects its investments in troubled companies at the expense of creditors.»

This big pop leads to a few years of undistinguished performance and investor impatience — where the manager may very well be doing exactly what their fund is supposed to and what their process requires — but to the casual buyer, none of that matters.

And fewer companies are spending the kind of funds required to make big impacts.

Over the past few weeks, Aramco executives and government officials pitched their plan for what could be world's largest share sale to some of the biggest U.S. mutual fund firms and hedge funds, according to people familiar with the discussions.

With fewer shares to trade, once more are locked up in ETFs and index funds, even small trades could cause bigger price swings.

The only bright light on the public horizon is that Lilly is now beginning to fund the same Big Questions program in a few of the Christian study centers serving public institutions.

I want Wenger to continue as he now has the funds to compete for some big names, and he has a few excellent young English players coming through.

The first is that in the fallout from the doping era, there are fewer sponsors willing to fund big races.

We broke our record on Laca then again a few months later on Auba who is a CF as well, we didn't clear out the clubs account to buy big and still have funds which could be spent if the CEO is convinced to do so.

my problem with AW is that for years he resisted to buy good players because of a million or two difference from asking price today's market those players are worth triple, we could of had a great team with possibly wining the EPL twice and possibly semis or final of CL, if he had just spent the money in the bank, Chelsea are in dept around 850 Million pounds (possible the bulk to Abromovich) and same for Man - United and few more, we are the only club that is cash rich with funds available around hidden 350 million and more accumulating every season, how i know this because i look at their end of year accounts outgoings and income there is around 100 to 120 million less outgoings then income, we can easily spend 700 Million in the summer and we will be well in with FFP rules and only have 350m to pay in two years which we can with bigger and higher sponsorship coming any day now

The main source over the past few months has been a return to a coherent transfer policy — something which can be extremely difficult in the Championship, particularly when the money is there to fund big - money signings.

Big firms are able to afford expensive advisors, consultants and lawyers, while HMRC has few staff members with deep knowledge of tax affairs and stands to lose employees and funding as spending cuts bite in the new year.

Despite fewer and fewer Americans checking the box, the fund's balance will likely keep getting bigger, but it still won't be a match for private money.

Mr. Cuomo, a prodigious fund - raiser who has long preferred collecting fewer big checks to cultivating a small - donor base, raised only 0.2 percent of his money from donors who gave less than $ 200.

«Labour has the policies to build a fairer Scotland for the many not the few, with a # 10 - an - hour minimum wage, a ban on zero hour contracts, a jobs first Brexit deal, and taxing big corporations and highest paid five per cent a bit more to fund our schools, hospitals, emergency services and social care.»

Last week it was revealed that upwards of $ 350,000 was transferred a few weeks prior to the 2014 elections from New York City - based big donors via «Team de Blasio» to the Ulster County Democratic Committee, providing funding for the failed state Senate campaign of then - incumbent Cecilia Tkaczyk.

Over the next few weeks the three parties will be getting round the table following on from an initiative by Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, to discuss how we can change the way party funding works to try and get the big money out of politics.

This reality explains why so few food firms are stepping forward to fund what could be the third big revolution in meat production, behind hunting and farming.

This year, the DFG will receive a hefty portion of the windfall from the government's sale of frequency bands to launch an initiative that could make a big difference to a few universities: a fund to establish or expand large research centers and help pay for their buildings, equipment, and salaries.

This is especially helpful after a big closet purge... the funds from selling your unloved items can go a long way toward purchasing a few new essentials.

So in honor of going big or going home, I splurged on a few of the Duchess & Lion Co items that launched last week, and you better bet she's been rocking that college fund this week!

Big districts may decide that the added funding brought by a few more kids isn't worth their while.

Obviously, few school districts have Big Apple resources, but Maxwell - Jolly suggests that most schools, as well as districts and states, can set aside more of their existing professional development funds to prepare teachers to work with ELL students.

With few exceptions, the biggest raisers seem to extend their «lead» in terms of funding:

With a colleague I carried out a review a few years ago for UNESCO of all major donors» activities related to teachers in multi-year projects with over $ 1 million funding and the biggest takeaway was that most funding that one can identify as earmarked for teachers goes to short - term in - service courses and that there is very little evidence about impact.

A big factor is state higher education funding cuts over the past few decades.

The biggest program, Early Head Start, is so meagerly funded by the states and the federal government that it can enroll fewer than 1 % of eligible (below poverty line) infants.

Senate District) said, «The GEA has meant less funding for schools, fewer teachers in the classroom, students lumped in larger classes, and a bigger burden for local taxpayers.

The bigger problem with expanding federal funding and reach on preschool is that the evidence is preschool has few if any lasting benefits, at least that have been rigorously documented for any large, modern efforts.

Since 1980 the big criminal gangs had moved in on the lucrative literary market and we had much to do and few funds to do it with.

While few creative people with big dreams are loaded with disposable income to fund their first few projects, we do have tons of valuable skills and expertise to trade and networks filled with other skilled and creative people.

The KDP Select fund for February 2015 has been set at $ 3 million initially, with, no doubt, another big bonus to come, but perhaps fewer authors (and books) as at least some disgruntled writers start to head for the exits.

A big enough emergency or a few small ones in a row might put an individual with no emergency fund in permanent hock, able to make only minimum required payments.

My big knock on the banks and mutual funds in Canada is that there are too few of them so the result is that they are too big and the market is too small.

All of the big six banks as well as a few credit unions and online banks offer low - fee index mutual funds to their clients.

I thought I would pass along a few thoughts of my own, given that 1) William cited the success he's had with a newsletter from The Motley Fool (my employer for the past 15 - plus years), and 2) my own portfolio has big holdings in index funds but also some actively managed funds and individual stocks.

The market has been propped up recently by governmental stimulus (especially at the retail level), but it has been driven for years by some bigger institutional factors (eg, more and more pension fund money chasing fewer and fewer opportunities).

Missing out on, say, three years of even moderate returns can take a big bite out of the funds they'll have a few decades later, in retirement.

For a single bond this isn't a big deal but if hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested in a bond mutual fund and interest rates sharply spike over a few years than the initial capital could drop by double digit percentages.

Neither is perfect, but when you compare the two — index funds proved to beat most (but not all) active mutual funds for a few reasons, lower costs being a big one.

Quantitative analysis is a mathematical tool that is currently used by hedge funds and the big investment banks, however these methods require considerable resources and given the performance of hedge funds in the last few years, it does not appear to be worth the investment.

Furthermore, this leads to managers taking in as much capital as possible to grow the fund as big as possible, even though they may have too much money and too few good investment opportunities to invest that money into.

The community of TB and a few others provided about 20 % of our funding, they are critical for any game, big or small.

Funds from the committee account for about 20 percent of the museum's acquisitions budget and, while other museums have big - ticket committees that help with purchases, few engage in such a performative process.

Indonesia is actually, in my view, a positive story — notably because of the big funds mobilized by Norway, Britain, the US and a few others to help Indonesia manage deforestation.

While it may seem like it should be easy as it might not take much funding, I am not sure that that community should be thinking so small (as it was at a research planning meeting a few months ago convened by the National Research Council)-- keeping a small program going can sometimes be harder than keeping attention a bigger issue and program.