Sentences with phrase «funds by a significant amount»

It has also been shown statistically that index funds perform better than actively managed funds by a significant amount.

Not exact matches

Over 95 per cent of Canada's infrastructure is controlled by the provinces, territories and municipalities, for which the federal government already allocates significant amounts of funding through its New Building Canada Plan; a $ 53 billion plan spread over ten years.

The Bank responded to this increased demand for cash by injecting a significant amount of funds into the market, resulting in a rise in ES balances.

There are now plenty of great co-working spaces in Budapest — some part of international chains or backed by a significant amount of investor funding — competing for business and doing a very good job in terms of design and community.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He wastes huge amounts of time on pointless activities, suffers emotional harm under a bizarre worldview that accuses him of being inherently evil, and feels forced to throw away significant amounts of money to fund the perpetuation of the belief system his is enslaved by.

«This agreement ensures that nutrient - rich vegetables such as potatoes, corn and peas will remain part of a balanced, healthy diet in federally funded school meals and recognizes the significant amounts of potassium, fiber and vitamins A and C provided by tomato paste, ensuring that students may continue to enjoy healthy meals such as pizza and pasta,» said Kraig Naasz, president of the American Frozen Food Institute.

«Today's announcement by Governor Cuomo is an encouraging first step,» Gianaris said in a statement, «but significant questions remain regarding the source of this new capital funding and the continuing budget hole of several billions of dollars beyond the amount announced today.»

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«Today's announcement by Governor Cuomo is an encouraging first step, but significant questions remain regarding the source of this new capital funding and the continuing budget hole of several billions dollars beyond the amount announced today.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

«By maintaining a significant amount of cash in a checking account, not only did the SCA fail to comply with the investment requirements of the Public Authorities Law, but also lost the opportunity to generate additional investment income on these funds,» said a report by Comptroller Scott StringeBy maintaining a significant amount of cash in a checking account, not only did the SCA fail to comply with the investment requirements of the Public Authorities Law, but also lost the opportunity to generate additional investment income on these funds,» said a report by Comptroller Scott Stringeby Comptroller Scott Stringer.

These discrepant figures are due in part to the fact that Sierra Nevada had «the most significant amount of risk reduction and technology development work to do,» according to a statement by NASA when it awarded the latest round of funding in 2012.

It is important to understand how funds appropriated by Congress under NCLB actually flow to the targeted students, since significant discretion at both the state and local levels results in variations in amounts per student between the Local Education Associations (LEAs) and schools that have similar demographics.

First, the fund invests a significant amount — 20 - 50 % of its portfolio — in the securities of companies which are domiciled in developed countries but whose earnings are driven by emerging markets.

Because a significant portion of securities held by the Fund may have variable or floating interest rates, the amount of the Fund's monthly distributions to shareholders are expected to vary.

Furthermore, the NAV will not reflect the value of any interest or dividends that are paid, which can provide a significant amount of the total return posted by a fund.

When a hedge fund manager increases or decreases a position by a large amount in relation to their current position, it's a more significant move and shows a strong belief, furthermore if a hedge fund have a large portion of their portfolio allocated to a stock it also shows a strong belief that the value will go up.

I know the college students haven't had time to build up any net worth, but those 40 and above should have both large emergency funds as well as significant amounts of investments saved by this time.

The huge amount of time saved by investing in index funds and ETF's is a significant benefit.

Wilson says Gambitious got into this business not for a gold rush, but rather the opposite — to carefully protect and enhance the massive opportunity that the new funding models present for independent developers, rather than see it squandered by over-promising and under - delivering on projects, especially in cases where people are investing significant amounts of their money hoping for a return.

The Belgian government has increased their investment in the Belgian Games industry by a significant amount and starting 2018, the VAF Game Fund will have an additional â «¬ 1.000.000 to invest in different Flemish projects.

Add text updates or images, like New York - based artist Danielle Durchslag, who posted photos of herself smiling and jumping for joy whenever the funding level for her art installation, «A Wandering Sukkah,» increased by a significant amount.

A grant of # 7.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund plus contributions made by the Linbury Trust, the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Headley Trust helped raise the funds, but a significant amount also came from public support: 8,000 individual donations totalled # 1.5 million.

Proceeds generated by the Auction, which have amounted to more than $ 28 million over the last 25 years, provide a significant source of funding for the Museum's exhibitions and educational programming.

We are core funded by The Arts Council but in addition need to raise a significant amount each year from individuals and companies, as well as from funding bodies, trusts and foundations.

Since the required amounts of investment are much more than the funds currently available from public sources, it is necessary to attract funding from other sources by creating innovative financing approaches that make it possible for a limited amount of public funds to attract significant amounts of funding from private sources.

Private equity player TPG is leading the current round of equity funding by investing a significant amount.

In order to bypass the setbacks seen by most exchanges, Cointrade is set to allocate a significant amount of funds gathered during the process of their ICO towards thoroughly testing their platform so that users can feel that their assets are secure and safe from malicious breach attempts and that they are exposed to minimal downtime.

In fact, in 2015, Title X projects reported a net decrease of $ 32.6 million in total revenue compared with the previous year.28 Despite funding cuts, tax payers have saved a significant amount of money by investing in family planning — about $ 15.8 billion in gross public savings in 2010 alone.29