Sentences with phrase «number of funds rated»

Homestead International Equity Fund, in Lipper's International Multi-Cap Core classification, received a rating of 4 for the five - and 10 - year periods (number of funds rated in parentheses): Five Year (31 funds) and Ten Year (27 funds).

Homestead Short - Term Bond Fund, in Lipper's Short Investment Grade Debt Funds classification, received a rating of 5 for the three -, five -, 10 - year and Overall periods (number of funds rated in parentheses): Preservation: Three Year (5,717 funds), Five Year (4,884 funds), Ten Year (3,219 funds) and Overall (5,717 funds).

Homestead Value Fund, in Lipper's multi-cap value classification, received a rating of 5 for the three -, five -, 10 - year and overall periods (number of funds rated in parentheses): Total Return: Three Year (302 funds), Five Year (265 funds), 10 Year (212 funds) and Overall (302 funds), Consistent Return: Three Year (302 funds), Five Year (265 funds), and Overall (302 funds), Expense: Three Year (96 funds), Five Year (87 funds), 10 Year (77 funds) and Overall (96 funds).

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In addition to providing tools that allow users to communicate with counterparties, TradeBlock also provides a US dollar denominated reference rate for digital currencies, which is used by a number of investment trusts and funds.

The Lipper award — winning fund manager runs a number of funds, including the Dynamic Value Fund of Canada, which has a four - star Morningstar rating and an 11.4 % 10 - year annualized retfund manager runs a number of funds, including the Dynamic Value Fund of Canada, which has a four - star Morningstar rating and an 11.4 % 10 - year annualized retFund of Canada, which has a four - star Morningstar rating and an 11.4 % 10 - year annualized return.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Learn the number of wide moat stocks and Gold rated funds that are currently in your portfolio.

During this period, the Federal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities.

The NAV (net asset value) of a bond fund will move up or down based on a number of factors such as changes in interest rates, credit quality, and currency values (for international bonds) for the different bond holdings in the fund.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

Some of the data in the figure comes from DR's table 1 showing the number of basis points (hundredths of a percent, so 100 bps is one percentage point) that the Fed has reduced the main tool it controls — the Federal funds rate — over a number of recessions.

Morningstar ratings based on risk - adjusted return and number of funds Category: Equity Precious Metals funds Through: 03/31/2018

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

The PowerShares Total Return Bond ETF is an actively managed fund with the ability to invest in any number of fixed income securities with varying credit ratings, countries, and durations.

Morningstar ratings based on risk - adjusted return and number of funds Category: Municipal National Short - term funds Through: December 31, 2017

Morningstar ratings based on risk - adjusted return and number of funds Category: Equity Precious Metals Through: March 31, 2018

According to the Global Financial Stability Report released by the IMF (International Monetary Fund), a large number of US companies servicing their debt could be in trouble if the Fed continues to raise rates.

The chart shows the number of Very Unattractive funds in each investment style and the percentage of assets in each style allocated to funds that are rated Very Unattractive.

The OCC's findings are consistent with more recent surveys: The Fed's October survey of senior U.S. loan officers found a growing number loosening standards for commercial and industrial loans, often by narrowing the spread between the interest rate on the loan and the cost of funds to the bank.

This is evident in a number of developments, including: increased demand for higher - risk assets; the increase in «carry trades» — a form of gearing where funds are borrowed short - term at low interest rates and invested in higher - yielding assets, often in other countries; growth in alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds; and growth in alternative investment strategies such as selling embedded options (see Box A).

When you have a higher credit score, it can literally open up a number of «financial doors» to you: lower interest rates on loans and credit cards, higher credit limits, and the ability to borrow funds to purchase a home or car.

«Although extensive choice seems appealing, research shows that it may hinder motivation to buy and decrease subsequent satisfaction with purchased goods... Using data from nearly 800,000 employees, we tested the hypothesis that employee 401 (k) participation rates fall as the number of fund options increase.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 percent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

In general, the number of donor - advised funds at SICs has grown at a much slower rate than at National Charities or Community Foundations.

These impressive numbers can be attributed to the increased size and rate of the average funding round, with Q1 2018 seeing 59 per cent of the ICOs that were launched in all four quarters last year.

Morningstar ratings based on risk - adjusted return and number of funds Category: Equity Precious Metals Through: 6/30/2015

An additional $ 18.6 m will be placed into a fund over the next two years to incentivise stronger Class I utilisation rates in Federal Orders 5 and 7, which cover a number of Southeast US states.

Good Info, Funding is always an issue when it comes to school lunches, but a number of corporations and private foundations are putting up big money for schools and small farms to implement such programs, especially in areas with high obesity rates.

Therefore 2016 to 2017 top - up rates are in line with the guarantee and funding to the special school should reflect these rates (for students placed by the home authority); number of students in each band; and the actual numbers of places.

Diamond: «If members of the government were told our rates were high relative to others and took that to mean we couldn't fund - and in fact we were funding well - and it was clear a number of firms posting had emergency loans or were being nationalised and we were posting highest level, we would question whether other institutions could get funds... the implication...» Tyrie interrupts, reading from the Barclays statement quoting Tucker.

They say those numbers are based on the assumption that current funding levels for the programs will continue at that rate of growth.

As the number of applicants grows, budgets stagnate or shrink, and funding rates fall, scientists submit more proposals and funding rates fall further.

«In recent years, [NSF] has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows,» but «one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten [submission] spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines,» Eric Hand reported last Friday.

In recent years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

Later in the movie, we're informed that the felony plea - bargain rate in the United States is 95 percent — predicated on the Justice Department awarding funds to jurisdictions based on number of convictions.

A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

Using data on contributions from NASRA and pension fund annual reports where necessary, and using weights based on the number of teachers employed in each state or district as reported in the NCES Common Core of Data, it is possible to compute average employer contribution rates for teachers.

The new pricing structure means state - funded schools benefit from a 15 % discount and those with a higher than average number of children receiving free school meals will be eligible for 60 % off the standard rate.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Leveraging donations from businesses and foundations, along with district funding, it manages a number of L.A. schools where test results were poorest, dropout rates highest, suspensions rampant and parents dissatisfied.

There are, for example, no statistics on the percentage of ELL students in the schools, no numbers on the privately raised funds the schools put to use, and only cursory gestures, in Kenny's book, to the controversy over students counseled out of or removed from these charter - school classrooms and to their teacher turnover rate.

And finally and perhaps most importantly FairTest, explains that it is, «not aware of a single school that lost federal Title I funds due to low test - taking rates, including many in New York that had large numbers of opt outs last year.»

FairTest is not aware of a single school that lost federal Title I funds due to low test - taking rates, including many in New York that had large numbers of opt outs last year.

The policy, devised as a way to help disadvantaged children, provides schools with a base rate of funding for each student, currently $ 2,896, and adds dollars based on need, such as the number of children receiving special education services, free and reduced - price lunches and lessons in English as a second language.

The report made a compelling argument to introduce a «base rate» level of funding per student, known as the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS), with extra loadings on top based on a number of equity categories.

Sixty - two years after the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that desegregated America's public schools, the education system is still struggling with a number of issues in classrooms, including segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, improving high school graduation rates, and college enrollment and persistence.

The A-F school grades were high stakes from the start — students who attended F - rated schools for a number of years were then eligible to flee their designated failing school and receive taxpayer funded vouchers to use at private schools.

Oakland Kids First accomplishments include winning: a Meaningful Student Engagement policy and office within OUSD (2006); an increase in funding from 2.5 % to 3.0 % for OFCY (2008); a Code of Respect policy reforming discipline at three sites (2013), and a number of other victories that improved retention rates, lowered suspensions and fostered greater connections to school.

The bills would create a number of penalties for schools that receive low ratings from the Department of Public Instruction and could even end public funding for struggling schools, giving private companies a chance to take over management.