Sentences with phrase «of a particular fund by»

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The infographic below, generated by Pulp PR, highlights 13 U.S. venture capital firms, each with a total fund size of less than $ 150 million, as well as their particular area of interest.

Among the things that prompted the creation of the inquiries were: financial difficulties facing DB pension plans and related concerns about DB funding rules; long simmering and unresolved legal issues, the most prominent of which revolve around the use of surpluses in DB plans; ambiguity about how EPP regulations apply to new hybrid plans; a lack of harmonization among Canadian regulatory laws; and declining coverage by EPPs in general and DB plans in particular.

An engagement by hedge funds reveals that their views about this particular point differ from that of the incumbent management.

An iShares fund is not sponsored, endorsed, issued, sold or promoted by the provider of the index which a particular iShares fund seeks to track.

If one's counterargument to this fact is that this particular task is the job of a portfolio manager, then (1) why assign such misleading titles like «financial consultant / adviser» to their employees when salesman is a more appropriate title; and (2) why does nearly every portfolio manager employed by commercial investment firms stick to low - utility diversification strategies that consistently underperform non-managed, passive index funds year after year?

Professionals rarely do so well over 50 years that their decisions about when to get in and out of a stock lead to better performance than they might have achieved by just putting money into an index fund that buys every stock in a particular category.

In the latter example, the provision of liquidity by one fund to satisfy redemptions in another fund (typically in illiquid assets) is a particular no - no.

«The lack of transparency in assigning public funds and the discriminatory impact on how vulnerable communities in particular are devastated by austerity may become evident again as Puerto Rico awaits disaster relief funds, and communities await to see how those funds will be distributed,» she wrote.

In a floor system, banks are kept flush with excess reserves, and monetary control is exercised, not be adjusting the quantity of reserves so as to achieve a particular equilibrium federal funds rate, but by manipulating the interest rate the Fed pays on banks» required and excess reserves holdings, alone or along with the Fed's overnight reverse - repo (ON - RRP) rate.

Check out the affiliations and funding streams of all who defend US emergent and TJ in particular and you'll find they are connected to Sparkhouse, JoPa, Homebrewed Xnity, the movement launched by Brian titled Cana Initiative where Tony bragged via his blog he was one of the early players (http://www.canainitiative.org/initiators.html), Outlaw Preachers, Steve Knight's Transform Network and so on.

That's exactly what's at the heart of this — that the use of public funds (e.g., tax dollars) should NOT be used to promote (e.g., force down the throat of others) any particular religion or religious belief or practice — that money shouldn't be taken by non-Christians by force (via taxation) and then given to Christians to put up displays of Christian religious symbolism.

In recent years that paradigm and the scheme of political morality that follows from it have come under critical scrutiny, and it would be unfortunate if in our eagerness to fund particular programs we would disregard the lessons suggested by that scrutiny.

If a particular child is NOT a recipient of a meal paid for by CACFP funding, then there are no limitations / stipulations for what a parent can provide, unless there are other state - specific regulations on meals for children.

The Bank's role in this particular case was limited by the design and different from the type of comprehensive audits we can do when funds are spent in projects supported by the Bank.

More importantly perhaps, the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar in particular — sent a strong signal of commitment to Bahrain in 2011 by allocating USD 10 billion to the GCC Development Fund over 10 years.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

A number of civil society leaders I interviewed related how they would receive funding offers amounting to thousands of dollars if they would launch particular initiatives in locations designated by the funder's interests.

Let me start by expressing my profound gratitude to the National Assembly and the House Committee on Police Affairs in particular, for the attention accorded the «Nigeria Police Trust Fund» Bill so far; in view of the setbacks encountered by the previous National Assemblies to pass the Police Trust Fund Bill into Law.

This is in sharp contrast to, say, letting state - funded organisations from enforcing their faith (and by extension, the bigotries and inequalities of that particular faith) with the assistance of public money and state support.

While members of the not - for - profit have been regular critics of Paladino and his role on the Buffalo Public School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable housing.

(Posted 24 December 2011) Significant current scandals, and those yet to come In no particular order Top salaries and bonuses - boardroom and shareholder individual responsibility The multiple between top and average pay Lawyers fees - the cost of the legal process Medical negligence claims against the NHS Care and treatment in the NHS «No win, no fee» personal injury compensation Democracy and the voting system Lords reform Political party funding The domestic energy market and pricing The Tax system and its inefficiencies and complexities Subsidies for new energy generation schemes The amount of crime fuelled by Drugs The availability of drugs in prison.

There is a particular dilemma in these parts of the country where for the last 10 to 15 years they have been reliant on subsidy from Whitehall, and those subsidies were funded by explosive growth in the City of London.

In September 2001, then House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (TX - 22) organized Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), a political action committee designed to gather campaign funds for Republican candidates throughout Texas — in particular with an eye to gaining control of the House Speakership, then held by Democrat Pete Laney.

Reacting to Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of the State message earlier this month, Democratic Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner of Washington and Saratoga Counties said she was encouraged by the governor's promises for education funding, but she did take particular issue with one aspect of the plan.

«So I agree that if there is a particular allegation, which is a subject matter of a trial, then in that case that particular amount, so for instance in the case of Opuni, if there is an amount which is part of a charge sheet, then the state wants to preserve those funds through a freezing order, of course it'll be within the mandate of the state to prevent dissipation of such fund by saying let's freeze.

The new wrinkle is the administration's heavy reliance on what is called mandatory spending, which would fund a specific program using revenue generated by the sale of a government asset, such as oil in the strategic petroleum reserve, or a particular tax or license fee.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

The proposal includes significant «mandatory spending, which would fund a specific program using revenue generated by the sale of a government asset, such as oil in the strategic petroleum reserve, or a particular tax or license fee,» Mervis continued.

You can actually pull up a list on the NSF Web site of all of the grants that are currently being funded by a particular program, along with the award abstract, which is a terrific way to see what type of science is funded (see Query Awards by Program).

By focusing on that particular area of funding, CRI helps foster advances in the field that will lead to even more ways to treat cancer down the line.

Identifying Conflicts of Interest I realize that it's important to present both sides of an issue, but Dr. Wulf Utian and his North American Menopause Society (NAMS) are funded by the drug industry, and in particular by those whose bottom line is most threatened by bioidentical hormones.

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.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

In particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classroom.

7) Reasonable funding levels based on the needs of particular student enrollments and other factors outside of district control, but also discretion by local district taxpayers to augment the funding of their schools.

Any attempt at zero - based budgeting would require decisionmakers to understand and work within the constraints imposed by these funding streams, each of which is typically earmarked for a specific group of students or a particular school program.

In an initial review of how the department administered funds under the emergency federal aid approved by Congress, the inspectors found that department officials visited affected areas and reviewed all available data to verify whether a particular school district was entitled to the federal money, the report says.

However, in the allocation of funds to individual schools within LEAs, authorized alternatives to the Census poverty measure are used, primarily because it is rarely possible to determine how many students attending a particular school are in poor families by relying on a Census poverty measure.

Not only would the Governor's proposed budget help all public schools in the state by providing an additional $ 9.7 billion in ongoing and one - time funding increases, it would also generate particular benefit for California's charter schools by fully eliminating funding deferrals and accelerating the implementation of LCFF, which produces greater funding equity for charter schools over time.

In this particular case study, the payment for the use of the ICN room was funded by the TEGIVS project.

Federal stimulus funds helped plug in gaps primarily by saving as many educators» jobs as possible — but it was still not enough money to keep pace with the growing numbers of schoolchildren coming into North Carolina classrooms, in particular with regard to classroom supplies.

This pooled pot will fund trials to evaluate teaching and learning approaches, as well as intervention programmes, solely focused on raising the attainment of EAL pupils from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and in particular those groups identified by the Strand / Murphy reports as most at - risk of under - achieving at school.

Chaired by Dr Kevan Collins, the EEF's Chief Executive, with two guest speakers, both senior members of the civil service with a particular interest in schools funding policy:

Although school funding was maintained in real - terms per pupil under the Coalition Government, all additional funding was provided via the Pupil Premium, targeted at particular pupils and therefore distributed unevenly.2 Many schools had to use Pupil Premium funding simply to plug the gaps caused by cuts in the value of other funding.

This project, funded by the National Institute of Justice and conducted in 30 New York City middle schools (6th & 7th grades), looked at precursors to teen dating violence, in particular sexual harassment, peer violence, and adolescent relationship violence.

First, they say that these dangers can be controlled by monitoring the practices and teaching of participating schools, denying funding to particularly offensive groups outright, enumerating the particular practices or teachings that are unacceptable in participating schools, and so forth.

Gone are the days of the carrot on a stick approach to school funding — a system which once made a habit of choosing favorites by rewarding states for adopting and maintaining particular sets of standards — such as Common Core.

Regardless of one's opinion of the views of any particular Sad Puppy supporter, it is entirely possible that without the infusion of interest and funds inspired by the Sad Puppy campaigns (whether from Puppy supporters or those dedicated to keeping the Sad Puppies from «destroying» the awards) that the Hugo Awards could have ceased to exist as lack of interest reduced the voting population to single digits.

Your share will be calculated as the number of times that the Digital Book has been borrowed during the month as a percentage of the number of times all KDP Digital Books have been borrowed, multiplied by the fund amount we establish for that month... For example, if the fund for a particular month is $ 500,000, your Digital Book is borrowed 1,500 times, and all participating Digital Books are cumulatively borrowed 100,000 times, your Digital Book will earn $ 7,500 ($ 500,000 x 1,500 / 100,000 = $ 7,500).

«Funds» are investing vehicles that hold dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of companies under one umbrella unified by a particular investing theme (such as companies that comprise the Dow or ones whose main business is in the biotech industry).