While overall research activities fell short of what the Administration sought, the omnibus offers an improvement over the sub-inflationary increase in House appropriations and
flat funding in the Senate.
In turn, legislators agreed to funnel more than 10 % of it into the Office of Science, rescuing the office from what would otherwise have been
flat funding in 2016.
The large proposed reduction to NSF research comes after a year of
flat funding in FY 2017, not accounting for inflation.
The fact is, all public schools are
flat funded in this budget — that includes charters.
Not exact matches
So right now the situation that we're seeing is a
flatter curve, yeah but the Fed
funds rate is
in the 160s, [10 - year yield]
in the 270s.
The measure keeps domestic spending largely
flat, while providing billions of dollars
in additional
funds to fight Islamic State militants
in Iraq and Syria and the Ebola outbreak
in West Africa.
In this case index
funds, with their objective diversification, minimal management fees, instantaneous liquidity and
flat returns over the last decade have trounced venture with its negative returns, narrow diversification, high management fees and illiquidity over the same time period.
Added to last year, when it lost 20.5 %
in a relatively
flat year for markets, the
fund's declines are now greater than its 2014 gain.
Kynikos» hedge
fund was up 22 percent last year, sources said, adding both
funds are about
flat in 2018.
The Health Care Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV), the largest health care exchange traded
fund by assets, is
flat in the current quarter, but still...
And so every time the market went up, people piled into that
fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the
fund outperformed, they piled
in, when the
fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was
flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went
in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --
The key takeaway from this scenario is that an incremental investment of $ 60,000 while
in your 30s would add over $ 300,000
in additional compounded returns by retirement time, resulting
in a total retirement
fund of $ 2.0 million (
flat out scenario) versus $ 1.6 million (ramp up scenario).
In the spring of 2001, to the surprise of his colleagues, Seo left his big Wall Street firm and opened a hedge
fund — which, he announced, wouldn't charge its investors the standard 2 percent of assets and 20 percent of returns but a lower,
flat fee.
This is expressed most directly
in paragraph 156 of the complaint which argues that a «two percent annual
flat fee on assets under management [as charged by an actively managed hedge
fund seeking superior returns]... is not justified
in the defined contribution plan context.»
The Barron's article pointed this out as well, citing London - based «G+E conomics» head Lena Komileva: «A surplus of investment
funds looking for returns
in low - yield global markets results
in a cap on longer - term yields and a
flat yield curve.»
The
fund can also take a position
in 0 - 3 month T - bills should the 5 - year note become too volatile, too correlated with equity, or too low - yielding (such as
in a
flat or inverted yield curve).
Within the total managed
funds sector,
funds flowing into cash management trusts have been slowing
in recent quarters and were
flat in the June quarter.
Regardless, there will be a
flat 1.5 % fee
in the transactions currency which will be sold and used to purchase Senderon and sent to the development
fund.
BitPay's bitcoin mass payouts are also simplifying payouts — platforms can
fund one batch payout
in their local currency, and BitPay will send bitcoin to any number of recipients worldwide for a
flat fee.
UAE students will also be grateful for another integral part of the MFM move: the student union is producing a recipe book for them, so they can create their own delicious, nutritious and — most importantly, for perennially under -
funded undergraduates — cheap meat - free dishes
in the comfort of their
flat - shares.
ita
flattering in a way hes so attached to this club that he is frugal with our
funds, where jose van gaal pellegrini throw money without a care.
The
funds would go toward a roofed, three - sided skateboarding facility and a
flat area for
in - line skaters.
In its current form, the CAP
funds a
flat - rate land - based income support (known as Pillar I) and match -
funds a smaller rural development programme (known as Pillar II).
If premiums for those commercial plans stay
flat, the state would see little or no increase
in tax - credit
funding to offset the loss of cost - sharing subsidies.
The County Executive has proposed a 2007 Library budget that keeps
funding flat for the third year
in a row $ 7 million less than we received 2 years ago, roughly the same level of
funding we received ten years ago $ 35 less per average $ 100,000 taxable property than the Library received
in 2000!
Those steps should include grants for water infrastructure upgrades and a boost
in funding for the Department of Environmental Conservation after years of virtually
flat budget increases.
In his budget proposal, Cuomo said state aid to municipalities and cities, which hasn't increased since 2008, would remain
flat at $ 715 million for the upcoming fiscal year, and instead offers competition
funds.
The parliamentary standards commissioner, John Lyon, announced that he would investigate a complaint about the former defence secretary lodged by Labour MP John Mann, after Mann asked him to examine allegations that Fox allowed Werritty to live rent - free
in his London
flat, which allowed him to run a business from a property
funded by parliamentary allowances.
They also said the governor is proposing a $ 1 billion increase
in aid to public schools and assumes the level of health care
funding from the federal government will remain
flat for the next fiscal year.
The spending plan, which was released on Tuesday
in Albany, includes a
flat funding formula for the... [Read more...]
While the Highway and Water
Funds will see significant increases under the new budget, these are partially counterbalanced by a significant drop
in Sewer
Fund expenditures following the payoff of a bond and a nearly
flat General
Fund appropriation, up only.13 percent.
The byelection
in Norwich North, held by Labour since 1997, was caused by the resignation of Ian Gibson, who quit after Labour ruled that he would not be allowed to stand at the next election because he used parliamentary expenses to
fund a
flat which he subsequently sold at a discount to his daughter.
In addition, the Senate GOP plan would
flat -
fund charter schools and the Open Choice Program, which aims to improve academic achievement and reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation.
He says he will «
flat fund» discretionary state spending to balance the budget, a plan that experts
in the state Office of Policy and Management and the nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis agree doesn't work.
While urging the presiding judge, Justice Muslim Hassan, to order the permanent forfeiture of the
funds to the Federal Government, Oyedepo argued that the fact that
Flat 7B, Osborne Towers was purchased
in a criminal manner, made the N13bn recovered therein «extremely suspicious to be proceeds of unlawful acts.»
NASA's Office of Education, which was slated for termination
in the President's request, was also protected
in the Senate bill, with
flat funding recommended for FY 2018.
Some agencies like the National Institutes of Health won increases
in research
funding, while other agency research spending accounts remained
flat or decreased.
The spending level is $ 158 million more than the
flat funding House appropriators provided and represents the third year
in a row that Senate appropriators have provided increased spending for the office.
In NASA's 2007 budget request, he canceled substantial increases previously scheduled for space - science
funding, which would now remain almost
flat through 2011.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) would receive $ 7.47 billion
in 2019, keeping its
funding flat compared to the 2017 level.
But
in the euphoria of sudden plenty after years of
flat or falling
funding and collapsing pay lines, the science policy community is feeling pretty upbeat.
A bright spot: The request leaves
funding flat for LIGO, which discovered gravitational waves
in 2016 (SN: 3/5/16, p. 6).
When the 109th Congress adjourned, hundreds of millions of dollars
in new
funding suddenly vanished, to be replaced by the CR's
flat budgets, which actually translated into decreased purchasing power because of inflation and civil - service pay raises.
But issues related to
flat or declining
funding are jeopardizing the country's leadership and creating challenges
in maintaining long - term ocean - related climate observations, the report says.
The RSC plan also sought to break the most recent budget deal via a 9.0 percent cut to the discretionary budget
in FY 2017 alone, compared with the previously agreed - upon
flat funding.
Funding for NASA science is
flat in the president's request.
Ehrhardt says he believes that the decline
in NIH -
funded studies can be traced to two things:
Flat NIH
funding (the 2014 budget was 14 percent less than
in 2006, after adjusting for inflation) and greater competition for these limited dollars from other, relatively new research areas such as genomic research or personalized medicine studies.
A decade of
flat funding by federal agencies, declines
in in - house research programs
in industry, and an academic research culture that relies upon an ever - increasing number of trainees to execute research have flooded the market with highly trained scientists competing for few permanent positions that would utilize their skills.
The agency is holding AIDS
funding flat this year at the 2015 level of $ 3 billion and expects to keep it there
in 2017 (p. 3 here).
«The agency is holding AIDS
funding flat this year at the 2015 level of $ 3 billion and expects to keep it there
in 2017.