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Investments in target - date mutual funds approached $ 1.16 trillion at the end of January, according to Morningstar.

Not exact matches

Perhaps not surprisingly, VC funding for ed - tech startups was estimated to approach $ 3 billion last year, according to CB Insights.

«Cenovus is impressed by General Fusion's innovative, pragmatic approach,» executive vice-president Judy Fairburn explained in a release announcing the $ 3.8 - million investment from the oil company's Environmental Opportunity Fund.

The go - getter attitude that landed her positions at McKinsey, Aeropostale, and Google is evident in her approach to grow the brand, which has partnered with department store giant Bloomingdale's and raised $ 13.6 million in venture capital funding.

Nearly four - and - a-half years after Bill Ackman bet $ 1 billion that Herbalife stock would fall — a losing bet so far for the hedge fund manager — the nutrition products company is approaching what many investors see as a watershed moment, the final test that will determine which side was right.

Dr Tan also founded the Positive Ageing Foundation, and secured $ 3 million in government funding to develop a new approach to ageing.

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

• Vicarius Pharma AG, a Switzerland - based which provides U.S. - based biopharmaceutical companies a new approach to commercializing assets in European markets, raised $ 21.8 million in funding.

Well, one startup is seeking to take a very different approach: Exonics Therapeutics, which has secured $ 5 million in seed funding from CureDuchenne Ventures to see if the revolutionary new CRISPR - Cas - 9 gene - editing technology can be used to target the root genetic deficiency at the heart of the disease.

SPY's AUM Approaches $ 300B Taking in the bulk of this week's inflows was one fund: the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY).

Despite the volatile cryptocurrency market and an «unorthodox approach to raising funds,» though, Winding Tree successfully reached its target of $ 10 million, Hockenberry said.

In 2014, global crowdfunding funding volumes grew to $ 16.2 billion across all crowdfunding models (eg., equity, debt / loans, reward / product and donation) according to a leading industry report (with 2015 predictions approaching $ 35 billion).

The California Public Employees Retirement Systems (Calpers) at $ 342.5 bln AUM is the largest public pension fund in the USA (as social security is not funded, opting for a «pay as you go» approach).

The proliferation of ETFs is now approaching 2,000 funds and nearly $ 3.0 trillion of AUM.

Although industry and government officials support this approach, some noted that the specific program won't work because it is funded by the $ 700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, which would require firms that sell their SBA loans to the government to hand over ownership stakes and curb executive pay.

$ Third, approach aggressive - growth funds as you would any dangerous, volatile creature.

So when the angel market was approached there was almost immediate adverse reaction to the $ 10 million price tag, some investors rightly worrying about pain it would cause the family and friends group if funds had to be raised below the absurdly high $ 10 million level.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

The program, funded with $ 50,000 in Partners in Prosperity Public Safety money will be implemented in collaboration with the Oneida County Opiate Task Force and through the Center for Family and Life Recovery and is another step in Oneida County's comprehensive approach to combating this epidemic.

While the city relies on about $ 7 - 8 billion in federal funding annually, it is unclear how President Donald Trump and the Republican - led Congress will approach upcoming budget negotiations and funding for New York City.

On the East approach of the Walkway, $ 2.5 million in state funding will support the construction of a visitor center gateway located in the City of Poughkeepsie.

As she was approaching the threshold to qualify for more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James» campaign coffers got a boost from her own staff and people connected to her consultants, records show.

According to a criminal complaint, Liu had been approached by someone wanting to donate funds beyond the the $ 4,950 contribution limit.

The Department of Youth and Community Development has also approached the group with a $ 7 million multi-year proposal to fund Harlem after school programs.

The Alt's recent review of available public records and news articles indicates that the cost of state - funded, outside counsel related to the investigations may now approach nearly $ 7 million.

Within NASA, Senate appropriators would carry out a large $ 234 million or 12.7 percent cut to Planetary Science, while keeping Earth Science funded at last year's levels — the inverse approach to their House counterparts (see chart at right).

He is using his $ 100,000 prize to study a novel approach to treating bacterial infections that he believes will short - circuit antibiotic resistance, and he expects that the communication skills the Skolar competition helped him develop will boost his chances of additional funding in the future.

First year funding should approach $ 300 million, and quickly ramp - up to $ 1 billion in subsequent years.

Science Business has a long chat with Fotis C. Kafatos, the president of the European Research Council, about how the young funding agency is doing and his hopes that it will relatively soon have a budget approaching the $ 30 billion or so that the U.S. National Institutes of Health spends annually.

The paper's model of the new funding approach calls for an outlay of $ 38.4 billion over 13 years for research; the costs of Medicare and Medicaid support for Alzheimer's patients in 2014 alone is estimated to be $ 150 billion.

An international consortium of research institutions, including the Fraunhofer research organization and the Technical University of Munich in Germany, hopes to raise $ 10 million in philanthropic funding to launch a ten - year pilot project later this year that will study long - term, sustainable conservation and restoration approaches at Pompeii.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $ 31 million in fiscal year 2014 funds to develop new approaches that engage researchers, including those from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical sciences and help them thrive in the NIH - funded workforce.

It has invested more than $ 450 million in research to date, almost 90 percent for translational research; funded testing of more than 100 therapeutic targets for Parkinson's disease (PD); and has undertaken novel industry partnerships to support early - stage promising therapeutic approaches.

«In 2012, Kessler Foundation awarded a Signature Employment Grant of $ 425,000 to the Office of Research Services at the University of Hawaii, to fund an innovative approach using virtual reality software technology.

LA JOLLA — As part of the National Science Foundation's funding for new multidisciplinary approaches to neuroscience, Salk Professor Terrence Sejnowski together with the California Institute of Technology will receive over $ 1 million over 3 years to pursue advanced modeling of the brain.

We encountered a program that: • intends to be responsive to disabled children and their families but is often paralyzed by red tape; • attempts to address the needs of an amazingly diverse group of children yet often relies on standardized approaches and «box checking» oversight; • absorbs more than $ 50 billion a year in public funds yet provides no consistent tracking of its performance.

Like Alabama, Arizona committed extra funds, including $ 1 million for training, to extend the program's approach to all its elementary schools, and has worked with districts to redeploy federal Title I and Title II funds to pay for reading coaches, training, and research - based curricula.

Funding for the program has approached $ 1 billion per year.»

Interface Founder Ray Anderson, who funded the Foundation upon his passing in 2011, was famously inspired by radical new approaches to centuries old design and manufacturing techniques, and sought them out when rethinking his $ 1 billion, global carpet tile company's products and processes.

More than $ 13 million in teacher training funds were earmarked by the California legislature last year to help implement the initiative, which calls for a balanced approach to...

Managers of the Los Angeles school district's massive program to build 160 new schools and expand and repair hundreds of existing campuses are forecasting a possible funding shortfall as high as $ 2.5 billion, just as the multiyear project approaches its halfway point.

Known as the Local Control Funding Formula, California's approach would allocate each district around $ 7,600 per student, on average, almost certainly putting a great many of the state's districts above the $ 7,500 threshold after adjusting for differences in cost of living.

Despite earlier Coalition scepticism about the efficacy of more dollars, it embraces the Gonski approach on needs - based funding, and commits to an extra $ 18.6 billion over a decade.

• $ 1 billion in 2016, and a total of $ 5 billion over 5 years, for a new Teaching for Tomorrow program that would provide funds to states or school districts to transform their approach to recruiting, training, supporting, retaining, and advancing highly effective teachers throughout their careers.

«We at DFER applaud Mayor Muriel Bowser and Deputy Mayor Niles for prioritizing public education in the proposed FY2017 budget, which invests an additional $ 220 million dollars for full modernization of DCPS schools over the next two years, ends the «phases» approach, and increases the Universal Per Pupil Funding Formula to allow for schools to better meet the needs of every child.

New York, NY — January 5, 2015 — Literacy Design Collaborative's $ 12 million grant application has been selected for funding under the U.S. Department of Education's $ 129 million Investing in Innovation (i3) 2014 competition, which focuses on innovative approaches to improving student achievement and scaling effective strategies nationwide.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan would have $ 5 billion under the stimulus bill to back new approaches to improve schools, a fund that could prod states to raise standards and reward top teachers as the Obama administration presides over a massive infusion of federal education aid.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced an opportunity https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/applying/notices-funding/safety-research-and-demonstration-srd-program to apply for $ 7 million in federal funding for projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to improve safety for public transportation workers and passengers.

Michael Murphy clearly outlines his approach to selecting technology stocks in his book «Every Investor's Guide to High - Tech Stocks & Mutual Funds,» published by Broadway Books (800/323 -9872; $ 27.50).

Compared with the e-Series funds, this only makes sense for portfolios approaching $ 100,000.