Sentences with phrase «fund company call»

In the beginning of my career in the investment world, I worked at a mutual fund company call center.

The DOT handles the planning for the bike - share system which is run by a privately - funded company called Motivate.

A privately funded company called Tri Alpha Energy has built a machine that forms a ball of superheated gas — at about 10 million degrees Celsius — and holds it steady for 5 milliseconds without decaying away.

have you guys heard of a fund company called capital group?

Some years (and more than a few slammed doors) later, Bogle founded a mutual fund company called Vanguard.

One fund company called Inspire, according to one of its prospectuses, avoids companies that have «any degree of participation in activities that do not align with biblical values.»

Not exact matches

After Amazon launched the Alexa Fund, one of its portfolio companies called foul, saying that the company had cloned its product with the Echo show.

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

We do have one investment in a company called Abra, which is a peer - to - peer money transfer network using the blockchain to transfer funds.

After Amazon launched the Alexa Fund, one of its portfolio companies called foul, saying that the company had

In 2011, he formed a company, raised his own funding, and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money to bring the Hensler Bone Press, as it's called, to fruition.

NEW YORK, May 3 - Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

And Bezos Expeditions, the investment fund of Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, is backing a Vancouver company called General Fusion, which so far has raised $ 94 million.

One of the hedge fund managers behind an activist campaign at United Airlines explained why he's bullish on the company, now officially called United Continental Holdings (ual).

When I was looking for funding for my second startup, local VCs wouldn't return my phone calls, even though I'd previously helped build a public company with $ 120 million in annual revenue.

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

The issue has to do with the fact that index funds are so - called passive investors, meaning the funds and their managers don't pick the companies they invest in.

This explosion in popularity landed FanDuel in the top 10 of the Silicon Alley 100; its $ 275 million series E funding round in July valued the company at more than $ 1 billion, vaulting it to the ranks of so - called «unicorn» startups.

Now Krawcheck is launching an index fund, called the Pax Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund, which will invest in companies that have a strong commitment to wofund, called the Pax Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund, which will invest in companies that have a strong commitment to woFund, which will invest in companies that have a strong commitment to women.

On the calls, which took place Monday, Amazon didn't offer many clues into its longer - term strategy for the Whole Foods acquisition, which Brill said is a bit unusual given that the company is using debt to fund it.

In recent years, he's started a company called HVF (standing for, enjoyably, «Hard, Valuable, and Fun»), a firm designed to fund projects looking to leverage data and joined Yahoo!'s Board of Directors.

Closer to home, a pickup in the U.S. economy, combined with renewed calls for greater infrastructure investment, bodes well for companies like Pentair (pnr), a water - equipment maker, says Todd Ahlsten, manager of the $ 14.4 billion Parnassus Core Equity Fund.

The fund, called the Blackstone Core Equity Partners, will seek to invest in safer, larger companies for more than twice than the three - to - five - year holding period private equity firms usually have.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

Earlier this year, a company called Event Shares filed a prospectus for a Republican Policies and a Democratic Policies fund to invest in companies that will benefit from the respective parties» political agendas (neither has launched yet).

The hedge fund manager's investor call came on the heels of Valeant's announcement earlier Friday morning that it was «severing all ties» with Philidor Rx Services, the mail - order pharmacy whose relationship with the drug company had sparked the whole hullabaloo about potential wrongdoing.

In criticizing the Verizon settlement, Clyburn pointed to a case last year under former chairman Wheeler involving fraud by a small company called Total Call Mobile that collected $ 39 million from the universal service fund.

The new fund, which he is tentatively calling Luv Ventures, will invest in «extraordinary companies that will literally revolutionize the world.»

The New York - based company, backed by $ 54.4 million in venture funding, caters to what chief executive Jennifer Hyman calls the «woman 2.0,» a customer who values experiences over possessions.

SEOUL, April 23 - U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management dismissed Hyundai Motor Group's restructuring plan as insufficient on Monday and called on the South Korean conglomerate to adopt a holding company strategy and appoint more independent board members.

The platform allows companies and individuals to set up giving campaigns, called «funds,» benefitting charities that Bright Funds has already researched and vefunds,» benefitting charities that Bright Funds has already researched and veFunds has already researched and vetted.

From 2004 to 2008, Reuters has previously reported, McClendon ran a hedge fund called Heritage Management Company LLC.

The fund is also in talks with Goldman about so - called «sustainable investments,» which focus on environmentally friendly or socially responsible companies.

But data by a hedge fund analytics tool called Kensho shows the stocks of these companies are reacting differently this time.

A program called Rise to the Top encourages technologists to come up with revenue - generating ideas and, if the projects are funded, lets employees run their own companies within MetLife.

Here's the best part, at least for owners: As long as the $ 4 million is reinvested in what's called «qualified replacement property» — stock in U.S. companies or bonds, but not passive investments like mutual funds — an owner can defer paying what might otherwise be a hefty capital gains tax liability.

Two weeks earlier, he had gotten a call from the company's largest shareholder, Texas - based fund manager US Global Investors Inc., warning that a broker at another firm had received an anonymous call, saying Muddy Waters was about to publish a report on Silvercorp and US Global should dump its stock.

Leading companies including major defense contractor Raytheon, secure - password - solution provider SQRL and security - analytics startup Rapid7 call the Boston area home and continue to raise millions of dollars in funding.

The pressure on Tribune's controlling shareholder, Chicago - based entrepreneur Michael Ferro, increased after the company's second - largest shareholder — investment fund Oaktree Capital Management — sent a letter to the company's board advising it to «engage Gannett immediately» about the takeover bid, calling it «the only possible conclusion consistent with your fiduciary duty.»

In 1999, the company spun off and funded a small project called Mozilla (the name supposedly was derived from «Mosaic killer,» Mosaic having been the first browser) to coordinate the tinkering so that there would be an official product, albeit one that wasn't controlled by Netscape.

NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

For the funding she needed, she relied on another small business — a firm called Kaleo Construction — to prop her up until her company could stand on its own.

Hall, who has started eight companies and invested in 35, created an angel investment fund in 2004 called Grand Angels, in an effort to bring more capital into western Michigan.

The company offers two types of funds — a standard basket of mutual funds, as well as a single mutual fund focused on sustainable investing, called the Aspiration Redwood Ffund focused on sustainable investing, called the Aspiration Redwood FundFund.

Ellevest's Krawcheck started a similar fund called Pax Ellevate which invests in what its leaders have deemed the top 400 companies committed to advancing women.

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture - capital investments focused on so - called business - to - business Internet companies.

Prior to her role with the fund, Kim was a management consultant at Bain and Company, an investor at Castanea Partners and founded a luxury leather goods brand called MAVN.

He now chairs the Apple board while running a company called Calico, which is funded by Google.

An often overlooked source of capital is the company's own sales, says Arthur Fox, a longtime proponent of so - called royalty financing and president and CEO of Lexington, Massachusetts - based Royalty Capital Management Inc., which manages the Royalty Capital Fund I LP.