In Grand Rapids, the YMCA, the science museum, universities, and the local school district, with millions
of dollars of funding by «XQ: The Super School,» are conspiring to replace teachers and their -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
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.
That is true, but you also have to know that the vast majority
of companies that are
funded by VC firms never get close to the million -
dollar paydays.
The company has the
funding to go head - to head with tech giants, and is on target to raise a billion
dollars by the end
of 2017, she said.
In fact, tens
of millions
of dollars have just been allocated to more than 15 algorithms created
by members
of Quantopian, a «crowd - sourced» hedge
fund.
In the years prior to 2008, Hollywood saw production explode, fed
by billions
of dollars flowing in from flush Wall Street
funds.
This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders»
Fund, donating a
dollar from each sale to a pool
of seed money evenly distributed between startups led
by men and women.
«On a cumulative basis there has not been a
dollar added to the US stock market since the end
of the financial crisis
by retail investors and pension
funds.»
Cameron said the purpose
of the
fund set up
by his father Ian, a stockbroker, in 1982 had been to service clients investing in
dollar securities.
It's calculated annually
by dividing operating expenses
by the average
dollar value
of the
fund's assets — lowering returns for investors, which is why it's important to know.
When said individual racks up compensation in the multiple tens
of millions
of dollars from an industry that was bailed out
by taxpayer
funds and then complains about changes in regulatory oversight, you know that individual is tone deaf.
And
by leveraging the above tips, hopefully more technology startups may boost their odds
of taking a cut
of the more than the $ 1 billion
dollar pie
of Kickstarter
funding the platform has accrued so far.
Southwestern Ontario manufacturers who may be underwhelmed
by the budget are reminded
of past triumphs, including the elimination
of tariffs on manufacturing inputs, an $ 80 million
dollar loan for a Ford expansion in Windsor, the Factory
of the Future project in London and
funds for Fibracast in Hamilton through the Advanced Manufacturing
Fund.
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).
The billions
of dollars managed
by mutual
funds, hedge
funds, insurance companies, university endowments, pensions, foundations, sovereign wealth
funds and the like need to find returns for their money.
Then it added insult to injury
by handing half a billion
dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush
fund.
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.
Over a 12 - month period (ended June 30, 2017), global hedge
funds, as measured
by the HFRX Global Hedge
Fund Index, delivered decent gains
of 6.0 % in US
dollar terms.1 That's a vast improvement in the performance
of these alternative investments from the prior two years.
Highland
Funds is the retail arm
of Highland Capital Management, L.P. a multibillion -
dollar global alternative investment manager founded in 1993
by Jim Dondero and Mark Okada.
Ordinarily, creating trillions
of dollars of reserves through QE (or buying a $ 1 trillion coin) would overwhelm any conceivable demand
by banks for interbank
funds, forcing the Fed
funds rate down to zero.
That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the
Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures
of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the
dollar value
of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the
Fund can establish leverage only
by investing a small percentage
of assets in call options (never on margin).
Climate Bonds Initiative's mission is to grow capital into climate solutions
by promoting green bonds to investors, primarily pension and insurance
funds filled with trillions
of dollars of investment - ready capital.
In response, the Fed reduced the federal
funds rate to essentially zero
by mid-December, instituted swap lines to provide
dollar liquidity to foreign central banks, added new liquidity facilities to target specific sectors
of the shadow banking system and began to expand its balance sheet through asset purchases.
The CEO demonstrated willingness to bite the hand that feeds
by ridiculing representatives
of Wall Street's biggest banks, some
of which have helped the company raise billions
of dollars to
fund his other - worldly ambitions.
Airbnb's
funding talks, which were earlier reported
by The Wall Street Journal, are another example
of the fast growth and interest in so - called on - demand start - ups, many
of which are seeking hundreds
of millions
of dollars and ever - climbing valuations in their quests to upend existing industries.
Many Republicans in Congress were already balking at the $ 2 billion cost
of the project, and just two months ago, Congress shortchanged its
funding by hundreds
of millions
of dollars, as the GSA noted.
In regard to the ETF universe, the most popular US
Dollar ETF is the DB US
Dollar Index Bullish
Fund, which was launched
by the PowerShares family
of exchange traded
funds.
But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental»
funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds
of billions
of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit
by natural disasters.
Under CBO's Alternative Fiscal Scenario — which assumes many
of the 2017 tax law's expiring provisions and other temporary tax cuts are made permanent, the recent spending deal is extended so that most discretionary spending grows with inflation, and emergency
funding for disasters is kept in line with its historical average — deficits will exceed the two - trillion
dollar mark
by 2028.
These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate
by 12 % against the
dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank
of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust
funds and exchange - traded
funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»
Invested assets, an important indicator
of the size
of client
funds managed
by the bank, dropped for the first time since June as currency swings from a weaker
dollar left their mark.
Investors pay higher ongoing expenses and commissions, a portion
of this amount is routed
by the
fund to the advisor in 12b - 1 fees, commissions, soft
dollars, shelf space and marketing support, and the
fund family keeps its share as a cost
of managing and marketing the
fund.
The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army
of hackers have been stealing billions
of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years,
funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts
by the rest
of the world to sanction this behavior.»
Over the past couple
of years, speculators have also used short sales
of gold to obtain low cost
funds to invest in other assets — for example,
by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US
dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate
of return available on US assets.
... You have access to the stock picks made
by fund managers who often spend millions
of dollars and every waking moment thinking and obsessing about the financial markets.
The recent announcement
by European central banks to restrict further sales
of gold and the decision
by the IMF to
fund its debt - relief initiative with off - market transactions, contributed to a sharp recovery in sentiment in the gold market in late September; the gold price in US
dollars increased
by around 25 per cent in the wake
of these decisions, but has since retraced about half
of this rise.
In addition,
by contributing throughout the year, you can benefit from
dollar - cost averaging
by buying more units
of mutual
funds when markets are down and fewer when markets are up.
Nearly a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a million -
dollar bet: that
by investing in a completely unmanaged, broad - market low - fee index
fund, he could beat the gains earned
by a high - powered hedge
fund with a team
of managers at the helm.
However, because
of the capital movements
of investors who bailed out during periods after the
fund had underperformed for awhile, the average investor (weighted
by dollars invested) actually turned that 18 % annual gain into an 11 % LOSS per year during the same 10 year period.
But it's important to note that it's difficult to compare venture capital and ICOs
by dollars raised, as ICO
dollar amounts vary widely
by market conditions as well as the value
of the underlying currency it accepted as
funds.
He spent years at the Trust company
of the West rising promptly to become manager
of a $ 500 - million
fund at age 28,
by age 30 he was making a million
dollars a year.
Working in the other direction, the investment
of the US
dollar proceeds
of foreign exchange intervention
by Asian central banks was supportive
of the US Treasury market, as was the very wide spread between 10 - year Treasury yields and the Fed
funds rate, particularly in light
of the Fed's reaffirmation
of its intention to maintain an accommodative monetary policy stance (Table 5, Graph 12).
Horgan committed to making things better for survivors
of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes
by making sure crime prevention
dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more
funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing
funding to violence prevention and intervention programs
by $ 8 million a year.
National Charities» donor - advised
funds have grown significantly in recent years
by number
of individual donor - advised
funds, the
dollar value
of grants made to qualified charities, the
dollar value
of contributions received, and the
dollar value
of charitable assets.
HONG KONG (Reuters)- NIO Capital, an investment firm founded
by leading Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO, is in talks with prospective investors to raise up to $ 500 million in a
dollar fund aimed at the country's auto sector, people with knowledge
of the plans said.
The investment objective
of State Street Institutional Liquid Reserves
Fund («ILR» or sometimes referred to in context as the «
Fund») is to seek to maximize current income, to the extent consistent with the preservation
of capital and liquidity,
by investing in U.S.
dollar - denominated money market securities.
The newspaper said that «Founders
Fund, the venture - capital firm co-founded
by Peter Thiel, has amassed hundreds
of millions
of dollars of the volatile cryptocurrency,» bitcoin.
In a typical split
dollar arrangement, the employer
funds all or part
of the cost
of providing an employee with life insurance protection and then recoups the cost
by sharing in the insurance proceeds at the employee's death.
(1) Churches on base
of all religions are
funded by the government... yes, your tax
dollars are paying for me to be able to enjoy whichever religious service
of the 10 denominations that my small base has (not Fort Bragg)... and if I want to be Christian one day, switch to Muslim another, or Jewish another then your tax
dollars are still going to pay for me to have freedom
of choosing my religion on base.
You got the Vatican, a multi-billion
dollar criminal organization, and you have mormons, who HAVE to tthe 10 %
of their income, I mean Romneys tithes could probably
fund the whole thing
by itself, and then you have all these other «charitable» organizations that bilk money from thousands
of people.