Sentences with phrase «firm running the fund»

In theory, fund directors fulfill the same general role as the directors of public companies, with broad powers to safeguard shareholder interests — including, if necessary, firing the advisory firm running the fund.

Not exact matches

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

Run through the venture capital firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund has teams of college entrepreneurs in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston that scout for other promising student - founded startups.

Other well - funded buyout firms such as OTA Broadcasting LLC backed by billionaire Michael Dell and NRJ TV LLC, funded by Fortress Investment Group, have also snatched up TV stations in the run - up to the auction.

Unlike the activist firms run by Bill Ackman or Dan Loeb, the fund Paul Singer founded has raised an army of activists who can influence corporate fiefdoms everywhere.

Casting about for additional funds brought them to the IndieBio accelerator program run by SOSV, a startup venture capital firm in San Francisco, Calif..

Aspect has since closed on a $ 150 million fund and gained some notoriety for being one of an increasing number of venture firms, run by women, willing to look at women entrepreneurs and women - run companies in a new way.

According to financial research conducted by the business consulting firm Rothstein Kass, hedge funds run by women make over three times as much money as those run by men.

Many even offer target date funds, which are an all - in - one investment consisting of a mix of stocks, bonds and other assets that is managed by the firm that runs the fund and require little to no management on your part.

While some of funds are managed by Goldman, there is at least one notable exception: a stake valued at up to $ 250,000 in a venture - capital fund run by the powerhouse Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz.

In the years that followed, Matsko ran Selway as an investment advisory firm and also ran something called the Talon Fund, a hedge fFund, a hedge fundfund.

«In terms of liquidity, not only do our largest firms now have the right kind and amount of liquidity calibrated to their funding needs and to their likely run risk in stressed conditions, but they also are required to know where it is at all times and to ensure it is positioned or readily accessible where it is most likely to be needed in resolution.»

AQR Capital, the hedge fund firm run by Cliff Asness, had a carnival - themed bash at luxury Manhattan event venue Cipriani.

Sara Johnson previously ran her own consulting firm where she advised social enterprises, funders, and corporations on how to maximize impact and effectively deploy capital.

Locationary, which is run by founder Grant Ritchie, has bagged $ 2.5 - million in funding to date, according to the firm's CrunchBase profile.

«We've made tons of errors like this,» says Staley Cates, president of Southeastern Asset Management, the Memphis, Tenn., value - investing firm that runs the Longleaf funds.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

Burvill, who is also director of UK equities, has run the multi-asset fund since 2011 when he joined the firm from Gartmore.

Earlier this year, the activist investment firm Elliot Associates, run by famed hedge fund manager Paul Singer, recognized the disconnect between Advisory Board's public market price and the actual intrinsic value of the business.

Ownership of Marengo Pastoral is split three ways between Warwick Negus, a director at ASX - listed investment firm Washington H. Soul Pattinson and his wife Louise, David Cobcroft, managing director at Sydney - based Alukea Commodities, and the superannuation fund of Robert and Samuel Mayer, who run F. Mayer Imports, a major food supplier.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Firms would have to opt out of paying into a funded, state - run pension fund.

Nex, which used to be known as Icap and is one of the world's biggest money - broking firms, is attempting to head off a rebellion at next week's annual general meeting by announcing its chairman will personally pay back the # 25,000 used to fund the candidates, including one who ran against Lib Dem leadership contender Sir Vince Cable.

Mr. Biden's new political committee, American Possibilities, paid $ 47,000 to Blue State Digital, the firm that spearheaded the pioneering digital outreach and fund - raising for his two campaigns as President Barack Obama's running mate.

The «next chapter» of former Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella's life is unfolding at a financial firm in Midtown Manhattan that offers hedge fund - style investments to ordinary Joes, run by a high - flying, globe - trotting college dropout and former Austrian cop who hobnobs with celebs like former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and «Desperate Housewives» star Teri Hatcher.

Sharkey and House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz issued statements Monday blasting the contract that the state Senate Republican caucus has with a Texas - based consulting firm called Align Media LLC to run the Senate Republicans» taxpayer - funded government website, ctsenaterepublicans.com.

Prosecutors allege Silver steered real estate developers to a law firm run by Silver's former counsel in the Assembly, which handled complicated real estate tax cases, and that Silver received kickbacks at his own firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, from referrals of asbestos cases that were sent by a doctor who received state research funds.

In 2006 Yankees ownership paid over $ 300,000 to a lobbying firm run by former Bronx Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez — the largest lobbying fee reported that year — as well as other influential lawmakers including former state senator Joseph Bruno, in an apparent effort to secure funding for the stadium.

«It is now receiving donations from an opaque organisation founded by the wife of a current Labour MP, which is funded by former Lib Dems and someone who runs Peter Mandelson's consultancy firm, and is headed up by former home secretary David Blunkett.»

Carillion provides facilities maintenance, cleaning and catering services to hundreds of schools, but the government has confirmed that public funding will be provided to maintain the public services run by the firm.

The Education Funding Agency has previously highlighted the complicated web of links between both the academy and charity trust, but also the firm that runs the leisure centre (London Horizons) and Martin's management firm (GMG).

A high court showdown between a former Ofsted chair and the consultancy firm where she worked has revealed details of how a private company planned to make profits from running state - funded academies and free schools.

While there will still always be a niche for active management with a proven track record or strategies that an ETF can't employ (which are few), as outflows continue, the cost structure of many of the largest mutual funds will become less attractive and firms will have to either continue to run them as loss leaders, increase add spending — or actually outperform benchmarks, which decades of research has shown to be very difficult.

On the other hand, firms like AthenaInvest ™ mine funds» data to run a family of Global Tactical ETFs.

Fidelity will «charge some new corporate customers that hire the firm to run their 401 (k) plans a fee of 0.05 % on assets invested in Vanguard funds,» according to the WSJ's reporting.

Buffett was one of Graham's students at Columbia University and he was an analyst in the Graham - Newman Corporation, Benjamin Graham's investment firm which managed Graham's hedge fund (yes, Graham ran a hedge fund before the term existed).

For those looking for a real life example (I suspect I know the answer but I will defer to Charles to provide the numbers in next month's MFO), contrast the performance over time of the closed - end fund, Source Capital (SOR) run by one of the best value investment firms, First Pacific Advisors with the performance over time of the mutual funds run by the same firm, some with the same portfolio managers and strategy.

An opportunity exists to front run participants in the market for corporate control — strategic acquirers, private equity firms, and activist hedge funds — and capture the control premium paid for acquired corporations.

Today I'll be looking at Argo Group, a small asset management firm that runs several emerging market funds.

The fund company that runs the fund is primarily owned by John Paulson and the employees of his firm.

Paulson runs the Advantage Plus and a number of other funds through his hedge fund firm.

Sometimes, new fund managers will get lucky by taking positions in smaller firms with more volatile stock prices, or they may pick some larger capitalization firms whose stocks might appreciate dramatically in the short run.

It now becomes more understandable why the mutual fund firms with a number of grey hairs still around, have been raising cash in their funds, not just because they are running out of things to invest in that meet their parameters.

His predecessor firm Gotham Capital ran a very concentrated hedge fund, with only 6 - 8 holdings.

With three publisher - funded projects currently running behind the scenes alongside their own fiercely imaginative home - made titles, it's clear that 32 - man Curve are a company with a firm grip on its own future in what are tempestuous economic times.

Cohen, who runs Point72 Asset Management LP, his family office and successor to his hedge - fund firm SAC Capital Advisors LP, singled out the Reinhardt when asked what had caught his eye at the fair.

Dealers like Cohan are «the gatekeepers,» said Hill, who recently became chairman of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management after running the hedge fund unit at the private - equity firm for almost 20 years.

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

Miller was also a founding member scientist of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a now - defunct, tobacco industry - funded public relations front group run by the APCO Worldwide PR firm that worked to discredit the links between cigarettes and cancer.

The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) is a now - defunct, industry - funded PR front group run by the APCO Worldwide public relations firm.