Sentences with phrase «number of funds focused»

As the price of bitcoin and other digital currencies have soared, the number of funds focused on digital assets has grown to 124, according to financial research firm Autonomous Next.

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Tony focuses on whether or not the numbers make sense, takes care of the legal work, patents, contracts, professional business plans and often helps secure funding for many of their projects.

The key numbers to focus on here are cash - flow oriented: various expenses (program services, general administrative overhead, and fund - raising), as well as beginning - and end - of - year fund balances.

Non-diversified funds that focus on a relatively small number of stocks tend to be more volatile than diversified funds and the market as a whole.

The fund will be more susceptible to these risks than other funds because it may concentrate its investments in a limited number of issuers and currently focuses its investments in particular sectors.

Against the background of MiFID II, fund managers are also focusing on a number of other urgent issues, with stewardship at the head of the list, as Cynthia Alers explains.

2017 has already surpassed previous years in overall funding and the number of new and unique investors focused on digital health.

Their current fund focuses mainly on Series A rounds, but also seed investments, in a number of fields, chief among them cybersecurity, digital health, and the future of work.

The seed stage focus of this fund helps meet a growing demand for early stage capital in Alberta, given the increasing number of young technology companies entering the ecosystem year - over-year.

Fiddling with the fringes of the issue, with fairly miserly funding of R&D and transport, fails to address the fundamental underlying causes: the recent relative atrophy of infrastructure spending and capital investment and a relentless focus since 2010 purely on the number of jobs, rather than quality, skilled, well - paid jobs.

New York negotiations also focused on how to divide increased education funding and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

The civil engineers suggest a list of highway improvements that could reduce that number, but a lack of funding causes the state to focus on the more immediate safety issues.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats also reiterated calls they have made over a number of years that they would focus funding away from short term work experience placements, via Jobs Growth Wales, to longer term apprenticeships.

Some of the programs funded by DRL focus on helping governments or other organizations carry out forensic investigations, while others provide accurate and reliable numbers on missing persons and locations of mass graves.

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.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

Some larger Stage II grants may be funded, but the focus is now on the third and final stage of the grant program, which supports large - scale distance learning programs at institutions — so - called «Virtual Universities» — at which ALN enrollment is expected to be 10 % to 20 % of the total student number.

Jaipur, India About Blog DreamWallets (DW) is a first of its kind online collaboration platform that focuses on the concept of Crowd Funding - an age old concept of raising funds from large number of supporters who feel for a cause or an idea and Crowd Sourcing — people coming and working together to help turn dreams into reality.

In the meantime, with the festival entering its 36th year, Cultural Weekly & Entertainment Media Partners have launched an infographic breaking down «Sundance 2014 By the Numbers», focusing on the financial side of things including funding and box office.

California's school funding model is nearly «impossible to comprehend» and should be made more transparent and more focused on helping districts that serve large numbers of students who are the most expensive to educate, a new report argues.

To supplement the Basic Grant, the Concentration Grant was added in 1978 as part of an effort to focus funds on districts with higher numbers of low - income students.

This led to us launching a major themed funding round (in partnership with Bell Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy) focused on addressing this gap, identifying high - potential projects ready to be evaluated across large numbers of English schools.

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

The Mind Trust will sponsor and fund at least 12 participants per year for three years, beginning in Summer 2017, with a focus on leaders within school systems or charter networks that will launch the greatest number of new schools and impact the most students.

This year's focus on public schools, which includes $ 649 million in new per - pupil funding, comes after three budgets that cut or froze public school spending, and expanded the number of families who could enroll children in private schools through taxpayer - funded vouchers.

The question focuses on why a number of groups have been relatively silent on issues like the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Race to the Top, and other new funding streams coming out of the U.S. Department of Education.

Focusing particularly on the schools with the highest numbers of disadvantaged pupils and greatest literacy challenges, we will spend # 8m directly funding both programmes that have already been evaluated by the EEF with good results and support disciplined innovations that show promise.

The implication is that the number of schools in focus will be larger, but given the funding constraints facing the government, it is unlikely that the same levels of funding, if any, will be made available to support improvement for these schools.

With so much government attention and funding going towards creating the so - called 21st Century Learners and with the nearly 100 % widespread adoption of the Common Core in the US which requires focused technology instruction, high school students are now using those same devices for academic purposes in greater numbers than before.

A greater percentage of the Fund's holdings may be focused in a smaller number of securities which may place the Fund at greater risk than a more diversified fFund's holdings may be focused in a smaller number of securities which may place the Fund at greater risk than a more diversified fFund at greater risk than a more diversified fundfund.

If you choose to invest in focused index funds, known as sector funds, it will narrow the scope of your investment to a limited number of companies in one industry and could make your portfolio less diversified.

All investors are beset by a number of behavioral biases, which focusing exclusively on index funds, will not offset.

The fund's sustainable investment strategy limits the types and number of investment opportunities available to the fund and, as a result, the fund may underperform other funds that do not have a sustainable focus.

An increasing number of global companies plan to sell assets in the next two years as a way to narrow strategic focus and funnel funds to stronger areas of the business.

Last year, for example, the number of Canadian mutual funds which focus on US stocks and which outperformed the index was... zero.

Focusing on small - cap mutual funds, investors can choose among a large number of funds that have performed well over the past few years, with the added advantage of low annual fees and expenses.

The Fund's focus on sustainability may limit the number of investment opportunities available to the fund and at time the fund may under perform funds that are not subject to similar investment consideratiFund's focus on sustainability may limit the number of investment opportunities available to the fund and at time the fund may under perform funds that are not subject to similar investment consideratifund and at time the fund may under perform funds that are not subject to similar investment consideratifund may under perform funds that are not subject to similar investment considerations.

The Fund is non-diversified, which means the Fund may focus its investments in the securities of a comparatively small number of issuers.

There are a number of mutual funds focused on small - caps that have provided strong returns over the past several years.

No, instead we tend to focus on the biggest, reddest number on the screen — and of course in a 3 or 4 fund portfolio, you'll see each position individually, and have to do some math to see the portfolio as a whole.

With an increasing number of wealth and asset managers using exchange traded funds tactically to create perfect portfolios, this guide details methods of focusing portfolios for better returns using ETFs.

To date, we've seen a limited number of deals, with US alternative asset managers & funds actually doing most of the running — I expect those same large US PE / distressed fund managers will become even bigger European - focused buyers & fund - raisers over time (a key reason for buying FIG, for example).

In the article, Mark discusses a number of the aspects of the fund's patient, buy - and - hold approach and the team's focus on research.

The Akre Focus Fund invests in a small number of what we believe to be extraordinary businesses that are run by talented and honest managers who wisely reinvest free cash flow.

Despite the number of ETFs offered commission - free, the majority of funds (> 60 %) are equity - focused.

I wrote more on this topic last year in a series on alternative asset managers — the series focused primarily on my approach to asset management valuations, the level of balance sheet cash & investments in the sector, and a brief run - down of the managers themselves (inc. a number of hedge fund managers).

These mutual funds focus on a number of different investment types, including stocks and bonds.

A fund's environmental, social and governance («ESG») investment strategy limits the types and number of investment opportunities available to the fund and, as a result, the fund may underperform other funds that do not have an ESG focus.

The upshot: Why not use index funds to capture the market's return at low cost, and then seek alpha with a handful of funds that either focus on promising market sectors or that are run by talented managers who own a relatively modest number of stocks?

The funds will be used to build a new adoption facility at the Manhattan Care Center, overhaul the Brooklyn Care Center, increase the number of mobile adoption vans to focus solely on the Bronx and Queens and allow the organization to further develop its fundraising strategy.