Sentences with phrase «funds by relative»

In brief, upgrading involves the ranking of funds by relative performance in several...

Not exact matches

A contribution to the college fund of a friend or relative is unlikely to be appreciated by kids hoping for a Wii U, but it sure makes parents happy.

Many EM funds also carry currency risk — that is, the value of their holdings vary not just by increasing or decreasing security prices, but by the value of their currencies relative to the dollar.

We held this view 50 years ago when we each ran an investment partnership, funded by a few friends and relatives who trusted us.

Four common strategies used by hedge fund managers include: long - short equity, relative value, event driven and global macro.

We aim to add value in the Corporate Advantage Fund by generating yield using a relative valuation approach and investing in investment grade corporate bonds, high yield bonds, preferred shares, and other fixed income securities.

Lipper rankings are based on total return without sales charge relative to all share classes of funds with similar objectives as determined by Lipper.

The index tracked by CEFL specifically targets those funds trading at a discount, with the idea that a cheaper market price boosts yield relative to the yield on the fair value of assets.

A closed - end fund seeking high current income and relative stability of net asset value by investing in a wide variety of fixed - income securities globally.

One way to observe the effects of Fed - induced yield seeking speculation is to examine the value of financial assets held by households (the Z. 1 flow of funds data include nonprofit organizations here), relative to disposable household income.

By holding your funds in bitcoin, you can take advantage of the upside if the price of bitcoin goes up relative to fiat.

A measure of the fund's volatility relative to the market, as represented by the Citigroup World Government Bond Index.

This is set by the expectations of the investors in VC funds, the relative risk levels compared to other investment classes and the performance achieved by other venture capital fund managers.

The Lipper Fund Awards, granted annually, are part of the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence awarded by Lipper, Inc. and highlight funds that have excelled in delivering consistently strong risk - adjusted performance relative to their peers.

In his February 2015 paper entitled «The Search for Crisis Alpha: Weathering the Storm Using Relative Momentum», Nathan Faber tests a dual momentum safe haven based on U.S. Treasuries of different durations as proxied by either constant maturity indexes or exchange - traded funds (ETFs).

The Lipper Fund Awards are presented annually by Lipper, a mutual fund rating and research firm, to honor funds that it believes have excelled in providing superior performance relative to peers around the woFund Awards are presented annually by Lipper, a mutual fund rating and research firm, to honor funds that it believes have excelled in providing superior performance relative to peers around the wofund rating and research firm, to honor funds that it believes have excelled in providing superior performance relative to peers around the world.

Even at that level of diversification, our day - to - day returns can be affected by large moves in even a single holding, but those effects go both ways, and the strong average performance of our holdings, relative to the market, has been an important contributor to the returns of the Strategic Growth Fund since inception.

A more realistic portrayal of the future of Humanity 4.5 would star the relative few who are going to use the enormous wealth accumulated by the globalist bourgeois empire to fund their own Promethean futures, self - cast in the role of «early adopters» whose job is to keep the cutting edge of progress sharp.

The castle church at Wittenberg had sixty - four priests attached to it, to celebrate the daily Requiem Masses, intended to ensure the everlasting salvation of those who had died, funded by the dead or their relatives.

Figures reveal Robert Parker's declining influence on Bordeaux wine pricing: Such is Parker's present effect on the Bordeaux market that The Wine Investment Fund uses his scores as one of three pillars by which it measures the relative value of one wine against another...

If Scotland were to choose to go down the independence route, not only would there be more than enough oil income to make every single Scot better off by considerably more than # 500 a year, but also for its new government to close down the submarine bases in the Clyde without having to submit to any form of blackmail on currency issues, to increase the gap in health and education funding relative to the rest of the UK, to keep the ship yards open, and a great deal more besides.

[9] New expenses rules published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority coming into force after the 2010 General Election allow employment of one relative but replace funding for a second home with a London Allowance of # 3,760 for MPs with seats within 20 miles of Westminster.

Professionals who are in close contact with elderly people could soon be in a better position to spot if they are being financially exploited, for example through a lottery scam or by a deceitful relative draining the bank account, thanks to a pioneering new study funded by the UK Research Councils» New Dynamics of Ageing programme (NDA)

SERAP letter reads in part «Given the relative newness of the Buhari government, the effective enforcement and implementation of the judgment will invariably involve setting up a mechanism by the government to invite the leadership and high - ranking officials of the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar» Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan to explain, clarify and provide evidence on the amounts of stolen funds recovered by their respective governments (from abroad and within Nigeria), and the projects (including their locations) on which the funds were spent.»

Silver also helped the doctor in 2008 by sending $ 25,000 in state funding to a nonprofit that had Taub's relative as a member of its board, according to the complaint.

He also used a shell company, Micro Targeting, ran by his relative, Jelemi Mills, to steal more than $ 11,000 in matching city campaign funds, according to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office.

«The process is largely political, with no correlation between funding and the relative status of districts as determined by certain commonly used indicators,» the report found.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

For every move de Blasio has made to treat charters less favorably relative to traditional public schools than they were treated by the previous administration, Cuomo has countered with promises of more charter funding and benefits.

The bill also prohibits the NIH from funding research that compares the relative effects of treatments on patients, part of a broader move by the House to thwart Obama's health - care reforms.

Among those that are scored, relative merit score, budgets and NIH institute priorities, which vary by year and by institute, determine which applications are funded.

Alongside disease burden data, it will chart spending within disease areas, highlight the investment by each country (relative to the disease burden), demonstrate the impact of research funding and highlight research gaps globally and nationally.

By studying how research funding is allocated relative to the global burden of disease, and assessing the outputs and impact of research, the resulting data will be used to better inform future investment decisions.

The reform, passed in late 2010, included a provision intended to prevent professors from recruiting relatives by shifting hiring and funding decisions away from the universities to independent panels.

In a cohort of over 71,000 scientists funded by NIH between 1996 and 2014, we analyzed the associations between grant support and 3 bibliometric outcomes based on the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), namely maximum RCR, median RCR, and annual weighted RCR.

There has been little scientific evidence of the relative effectiveness of these drugs, because most studies compare one against a handful of others or a placebo, and are often funded by the maker of a particular drug, which can bias the findings in its favor, the researchers note.

The pilot, based on David Michôd's 2010 Australian film of the same name starring Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver and Joel Edgerton, follows the 17 - year - old Joshua «J» Cody, who moves in with his California relatives and discovers that they're funded by criminal activities.

We researched the activities of 136 U.S. educational institutions, determined the relative frequency of the different models, and analyzed the results by funding source (public vs. private), enrollment, and endowment size.

For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent gain.

The unmistakable picture in each of these states is that during a decade or more of court funding mandates, student performance, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (commonly referred to as the «Nation's report card»), has not measurably improved relative to other states that did not have anywhere near the same influx of new school money.

As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.

As shown in studies by Leslie Papke and Joydeep Roy, and as confirmed in our report, the districts that experienced higher funding per student showed improvements in student achievement relative to school districts that did not (Figure 2 - 1 on page 8 of our report).

AB 626 by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D - Berkeley, would make numerous changes to state school nutrition standards to conform with the federal Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 and implements recommendations of a Senate report relative to use of cafeteria funds.

A 2010 legislative study recommended grouping special education students by relative level of need (low, moderate, and high) in order to target these limited funds more effectively, but to date no legislative changes have been proposed.

As a consequence, states facing adequacy standards were much less prone to achieve equality by reducing overall funding; instead, they were forced to raise absolute and relative funding in the poor districts.

Reforms raised relative funding in the low - income districts by about $ 500 per pupil, which implies that increasing funding by $ 1,000 per pupil — about 10 percent of average funding over the period — raises test scores by 0.16 standard deviations.

An academy trust already under - fire over related party transactions broke the rules when it made a political donation and paid a company owned by a relative of a director for consultancy services, an Education Funding Agency investigation has revealed.

While the Catholic sector's funding will grow under the package, it will suffer in relative terms because it will no longer benefit from special deals done by previous governments.

Funds are allocated by formula, based on states» relative share of the school - age population.

The information provided in the applicants» BCAs will be evaluated by USDOT, and will be used to help ensure that the available funding under the program is devoted to projects that provide significant economic benefits to users and the Nation as a whole, relative to the resources required to implement those projects.