Sentences with phrase «lower quality funds»

Consider a wide range of different bond funds, including corporate and government funds, higher and lower quality funds and global and domestic funds.

Not exact matches

But rising delinquencies have made it harder to raise funds for fresh loans, prompting the sector to review its business model, which tends to attract borrowers with low credit quality.

High - yield funds may invest in lower - quality securities, which generally offer higher yields, but also carry more risk.

These funds invest primarily in lower credit quality securities, including convertible securities.

Jonathan Horton of Perth - based «fund - of - funds» NWQ points out that 2016 was notable because it delivered the lowest «price dispersion» between high - growth, high - quality stocks and deep - value stocks with lower quality balance sheets.

MINT is a low - cost, actively - managed fund that seeks higher current income than the average money market mutual fund by holding a hodgepodge of high - quality and ultra-short term USD - denominated debt issued by domestic or foreign issuers.

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The fund's manager does a good job allocating capital to higher - quality companies with lower relative valuations, the cornerstone of the value investing discipline.

Pharmacists in Alberta fear a new funding agreement with the province will lead to staff cuts and lower quality of care for patients.

The best funds have high - quality holdings and low costs.

The Oakmark Equity and Income Fund invests in medium - and lower - quality debt securities that have higher yield potential but present greater investment and credit risk than higher - quality securities, which may result in greater share price volatility.

That is, set up your investments for direct withdrawal from your checking or savings account, reinvest dividends, and focus on only buying the lowest risk, highest quality, most attractively valued stocks or index funds such as one based upon the S&P 500.

Customers have access to a plethora of quality research and innovative trade tools, not to mention low trading costs alongside several hundred commission - free ETFs and thousands of commission - free mutual funds.

Corporate bond spreads have moved lower over the past six months to around five - year lows, suggesting that concerns over credit quality are not hampering access to external funding.

But economists have long noted that the beneficiaries of free trade — citizens who enjoy more variety, greater quality and lower prices of goods — are poorly organized politically to have their voices heard over those of the well - funded spokespeople for the sectors and industries experiencing job losses.

The findings were announced by Professor Carlo Leifert of the Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture based at Newcastle University, UK, who with his team are working on the EU funded project called the Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) project, the biggest ever to research the pros and cons of organic farming and food.

They have funded and encouraged the expansion of the low - cost, low quality robusta coffee, and have spent millions of dollars developing technologies to make this bitter variety palatable.

If you have little funds available, you don't have to worry about providing your child with a low - quality mattress.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Critically, this budget provides funding support for affordable housing, preserves access to quality health services for millions of low - income New Yorkers, and makes important investments in anti-poverty initiatives throughout the state.

The goal of the program is to fund projects that result in high quality, full - time jobs that are well paying and provide benefits and training to low - and moderate - income persons.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

NIH notes, however, «that a higher success rate for AIDS doesn't always mean the quality bar was lower; certain institutes may have spent AIDS funds for a specific topic that attracted only a few proposals that were of very high quality.

Top - ranked programs attract more funding as well as high - quality faculty and students, while «low rankings can shrink or even kill off a program,» notes Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Graham, author of a well - regarded 1997 book on the history of U.S. research universities.

NIH notes that a higher success rate for AIDS doesn't always mean the quality bar was lower; certain institutes may have spent AIDS funds for a specific topic that attracted only a few proposals that were of very high quality.

They see it as an attempt to undermine a program that biomedical lobbyists have complained is supporting low - quality research at a time when excellent proposals from top scientists are being rejected for lack of funds.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

Proponents of greater public funding for early childhood education (ECE) argue that too many children, often those from challenged communities and homes, arrive for kindergarten with insurmountable development gaps and that low - income and disadvantaged children who are exposed to high - quality pre-K programs gain lifelong benefits.

Maybe you'd like to close the huge funding gaps that trap low - income students in substandard schools, or create free, high - quality, universal prekindergarten.

In this country where critics and the public often cite the low quality of education, especially for the poor, localized funding for public schools and a proliferation of expensive private schools creates a vast divide between poorer and richer students» schools.

Okay... but what exactly does that mean, and how readily can we ensure that the preschools being funded are high quality and not low quality?

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school quality.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

In response to longstanding concerns about the nutritional quality of school meals, five school districts this fall began using new menus and recipes in an unusual effort funded by the U.S. Agriculture Department to lower the amount of fat and sodium in school breakfasts and lunches.

Not only do these program tend to be less - well funded, overly regulated, and generally of lower quality, but they are always highly vulnerable to being weakened further or eliminated.

Critics of course choice worry about the motives of private course providers and fear that such providers will profit off of state funding while offering only low - quality courses to the state's students.

The plaintiffs and lower courts had consistently used funding as the barometer of quality.

The Charter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority students.

They should continue to support funding for the replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools, and they should make new investments in research and support for parent information, equitable funding and facilities, and innovative, low - regulation approaches to equity and effectiveness in schools of choice.

Ninety percent of voters, regardless of party affiliation, endorse quality early childhood education with expanded access and affordability for children from low - and middle - income backgrounds, according to a 2016 national poll by the First Five Years Fund.

What to watch: The PDE will use Title II, Part A funds to continue supporting current initiatives, such as two promising grant programs: One promotes partnerships between LEAs and EPPs to improve their teachers» ability to serve low - income and minority students and a second dedicates funding for high - quality clinical experiences, particularly for educators teaching in high - need areas.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

Finally, not enough is spent on education in some states, and in many an inequitable distribution of funds results in low - quality education.

* UPDATED A massive undertaking to increase access to high - quality education for tens of thousands of low - income students in Los Angeles was revealed today in a long - awaited plan by Great Public Schools Now, a well - funded nonprofit organization formed last year.

And in a public education world where the unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the city a grant that required the union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the school system.

Palacio's school receives extra funding under the Quality Education Investment Act, a union - backed program that offers additional funds to lower - performing schools to support research - based reforms.

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.