Sentences with phrase «funded by a large group»

The new data - driven initiative is funded by a large group of non-profits including the Ford Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation and the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Chartiable Trust.

Not exact matches

The world's largest private equity fund, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $ 93 billion to invest in technology sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

And that is a trend that keeps snowballing, thanks primarily to the activities of two groups: first, the pension funds, insurers, and other large investors that continue to accelerate their investments in growth companies; and second, the investment - world professionals, who are responding to the deluge of money by continually setting up new funds.

Prior to that, he researched media, advertising and online education companies for a hedge fund within Fukoku Life New York and led sales for The Capital - Gazette, a large media and communications group now owned by Tribune Publishing.

Bengaluru: Another mutual fund, this time one managed by US - based investment firm Vanguard Group, has marked down the value of shares it holds in India's largest e-commerce firm Flipkart Ltd..

He also shed his interests in funds run by the private equity giant Blackstone Group — whose chief executive, Stephen A. Schwarzman, is an economic adviser to Mr. Trump — as well as BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager.

The most disastrous development is that hackers are now funded by nations and groups, providing them with ample opportunities to hone their skills and target the largest corporations and even governments.

Buffett, who has argued that investors — both small and large — would be better off putting money in low - cost index funds, wrote in his 2005 shareholder letter that active management professionals (hedge funds), as a group, would underperform the returns achieved «by rank amateurs who simply sat still.»

Now if you go back ten years, a period that includes the bubble, the Group of Fifteen did better, averaging a positive 8.13 % per year.Even for that ten year period, however, they underperformed the value group, on average, by more than 5 % per year.6 With a good tailwind, those large cap funds were not great — underperforming the index by almost 2 % per year — and in stormy weather their boats leaked bGroup of Fifteen did better, averaging a positive 8.13 % per year.Even for that ten year period, however, they underperformed the value group, on average, by more than 5 % per year.6 With a good tailwind, those large cap funds were not great — underperforming the index by almost 2 % per year — and in stormy weather their boats leaked bgroup, on average, by more than 5 % per year.6 With a good tailwind, those large cap funds were not great — underperforming the index by almost 2 % per year — and in stormy weather their boats leaked badly.

Yesterday I covered a 2006 talk, «Journey Into the Whirlwind: Graham - and - Doddsville Revisited,» by Louis Lowenstein *, then a professor at the Columbia Law School, in which he compared the performance of a group of «true - blue, walk - the - walk value investors» and «a group of large cap growth funds».

The Carlton Group led by Chairman, Howard L. Michaels has announced that it has entered the Accredited Crowd Funding space to offer accredited investors an opportunity to invest in large, high yield commercial real estate investments.

The underlying idea of peer to peer (P2P) lending is to circumvent traditional lenders, such as banks, by crowdfunding funds from a large group of individuals.

The deal — one of the largest yet negotiated by Rural Funds Group — grows that value of its diversified portfolio to $ 660 million, including six cattle properties worth $ 101 million that will make up 16 per cent of the portfolio.

They gave their largest contribution of $ 15,000 to a public policy fund run by Citizen Action, one of the progressive groups who endorsed Nixon.

After Cuomo, the second - largest recipient of hedge fund - contributions was New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany — an independent expenditure committee created by the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — that spent $ 4.2 million to

After Cuomo, the second - largest recipient of hedge fund - contributions was New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany — an independent expenditure committee created by the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — that spent $ 4.2 million to help Republicans take control of the state Senate.

In the 2012 presidential election it improved its vote total by ninety percent compared to the 2008 election, without funding from special interest groups or large donors.

They gave their largest contribution of $ 15,000 to a public policy fund run by Citizen Action, one of the progressive groups that endorsed Nixon.

At CNIO, Wagner's group is funded by Fundación BBVA, the corporate responsibility arm of BBVA, a 150 - year - old global financial institution ranked as Spain's second largest bank.

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the new multidisciplinary research sheds light on the very early evolutionary stages of the sound generating organs in «orthopterans» (bush - crickets and their related species)-- the largest group of acoustically active insects on the planet.

The research that led to these findings is part of a larger effort to better understand gene regulation and expression, carried out by the GTEx Consortium, a National Institutes of Health - funded group that includes researchers from around 80 institutions founded in 2010.

Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.

The comment taken from the leftist rag the Guardian, «Scientists and economists have been offered $ 10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today»...

According to Joe Scaife, Chair of Kreston's Academies Group and a partner at Bishop Fleming, the UK's second largest accountants for Academy schools: «The latest survey reveals staff costs and pupil numbers are not being covered by government funding alone, meaning academies have to look for cost savings on top of those they have already achieved.

The school choice advocacy group receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family Foundation, established by the founders of the world's largest retailer, Wal - Mart.

The groups, which have in large part been created by hedge fund managers and lapsed government officials, count political operatives inside state legislatures and even the Democratic National Committee among their ranks.

Currently, CEL is providing group training, one - on - one coaching and PLC support for a large - scale research study funded by the U.S. Department of Education examining the impact of professional development on principals in eight districts around the country.

But the Million + group representing new universities echoed concerns that institutions with larger numbers of disadvantaged students would be hit by the requirement to fund their second year fees.

In «United Front: Teachers Unions Quietly Spend Millions on «Grassroots» Groups» The 74's David Cantor reveals that the «grassroots organization» has been created, funded, and directed by two of the nation's largest political contributors — you guessed it — the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.

TRENTON — A new political action group started by two New Jersey hedge - fund financiers aims to put money — a lot of money — behind an education reform agenda shared by Gov. Chris Christie and reviled by the state's largest teachers union.

CABE and CAPSS are two examples of groups that are funded in large part by taxpayer funds but rather than spend their resources protecting Connecticut's public school students, parents, teachers, school administrators and taxpayers they are kowtowing to an increasingly unpopular governor and his increasingly unpopular so - called «education reforms.»

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

Midland Funding is part of Encore Capital Group, one of the largest debt buying companies in the U.S. Through its subsidiaries, Encore Capital and other debt buying companies purchase credit card, medical and other debts, usually from the original creditors after many months, or even years, of unsuccessful collection attempts by the original lenders.

He runs the Baupost Group; the world's 11th largest hedge fund by assets under management.

The larger problem caused by its name is Morningstar's decision to assign the fund to the «world bond» group rather than the «short - term bond» group.

After all, fund manager are by and large a smart, well - educated group who know a lot about investing and devote considerable effort and expense to generate competitive returns.

Yesterday I covered a 2006 talk, «Journey Into the Whirlwind: Graham - and - Doddsville Revisited,» by Louis Lowenstein *, then a professor at the Columbia Law School, in which he compared the performance of a group of «true - blue, walk - the - walk value investors» and «a group of large cap growth funds».

One way to do that is by assembling a group of individual funds or ETFs each of which provides exposure to a specific asset class — large - company stocks, small shares, government and corporate bonds, etc..

I also collaborated with a large group of fairly experienced investors that exchanged imformation on a bulletin board frequented by users of the same mutual fund database.

The first retail index fund, First Index Investment Trust, was formed in 1976 by The Vanguard Group, headed by John Bogle; it is now called the «Vanguard 500 Index Fund» and is one of the world's largest mutual fufund, First Index Investment Trust, was formed in 1976 by The Vanguard Group, headed by John Bogle; it is now called the «Vanguard 500 Index Fund» and is one of the world's largest mutual fuFund» and is one of the world's largest mutual funds.

While the six - year annual returns for these funds were hardly horrible, both groups did lag the 4.3 % annual return of the stock market, as measured by the largest S&P 500 Index Fund, which provided a 29 % cumulative gain.

The average annual returns of 53 % earned in the bull market by a group of the largest sector funds were followed by returns of minus 31 % a year in the bear market, a net annual return of 3 % and a cumulative gain of 19.2 %.

Signature Global Asset Management, led by its Chief Investment Officer, Eric Bushell, manages over $ 50 billion in core equity, balanced and income - oriented funds, and is CI Investments Inc.'s largest in - house portfolio management group.

Since the ordinance passed, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC)-- a group heavily funded by Petland (the largest pet store chain in America selling puppy mill dogs) and the Hunte Corporation (the largest broker in puppy mill dogs)-- has turned up the heat in Cook County and the state of Illinois.

But animal advocates agree that the decrease in euthanasia has been dramatic, driven mostly by successful spay - neuter programs and, more recently, by savvy adoption campaigns, greater efforts to reunite lost pets with owners and the proliferation of advocacy groups both small and large that have swept in to help municipal shelters, often poorly funded and sluggish.

While the seller was not named and officials at Sotheby's declined to comment, the paintings are part of a larger group of works, which also includes an abstract canvas by Gerhard Richter, being sold by Steven A. Cohen, the hedge fund billionaire, whose company, SAC Capital Advisors, is fighting criminal charges of insider trading.

In 1855, a bequest by the Basel art dealer Samuel Birrmann (1793 - 1843) established a significant fund to purchase contemporary Swiss art, an early acquisition of which was a large group of paintings by the Basel artist Arnold Bocklin (1827 - 1901)- who was, along with Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918), the greatest Swiss painter of the 19th century.

To alleviate this problem the same group has one of the largest arrays of moorings in the water to get daily measurements of this transport (RAPID / MOCA array funded jointly by the UK and USA).

The next thing to understand is that even in these rare moments, frontline voices do not have enough of a platform in the official climate meetings, in which the microphone is dominated by governments and large, well - funded green groups.