Sentences with phrase «of funding approaches»

Global research requires that we sustain a diversity of funding approaches, fostering international collaborations, and providing access to the best facilities and infrastructure, and locating skilled researchers in stimulating environments.

The Fund utilises a research driven, fund of fund approach to generate returns and is designed to complement traditional investments, such as stocks, bonds, and property, and form part of a diversified and balanced portfolio.

The U.S. Department of Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding approach.

Highlight the shifting allocation of the fund to a more conservative investment mix (shift towards fixed income investments) as the stated retirement target date of the fund approaches.

Proponents of the fund approach argue that linking REDD credits to the carbon market will delay the transition of developed countries to low - carbon technologies and will restrict developing countries in their ability to reform land use policies.

Not exact matches

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

A Perth lawyer has come up with a novel approach that addresses two issues facing the law community — a lack of job opportunities for recent graduates and a funding shortfall for community legal centres.

Josh Seims, MetaStable's third co-founder, says the fund takes a value investing approach, «sort of what you imagine a Warren Buffett doing, but it's kind of oxymoronic to use these terms in the space because everything is so ephemeral.»

Tanner argues investing even just a portion of it would allow for the government to purchase a commanding share of almost every major company in the U.S. Even if that money were invested in index funds (which is the approach Munnell supports), the way the government managed its voting rights could effectively allow it to «pick winners» among corporate entities.

In response, Silveira will supplement a core of index investments with funds that take a more actively managed socially responsible approach.

A student of Warren Buffett's value investing approach based on hunting for undervalued stocks, Lee - Chin saw great dysfunction in the accepted practice of the fund business.

The agency's targeted and graduated approach to regulation could help scare away fraudsters, while preserving the positive features of the technology, particularly its ability to raise funds globally with little friction and few fees.

Mehta has words of advice for the new AI entrants, he states that following the below mentioned approaches, startup owners could gain confidence while dealing with leading venture capitalists as far as raising post-Series A funding is concerned:

Microsoft Ventures will take a «holistic approach,» as a three - channel, global support system for startups including a seed fund, a handful of accelerator programs and a community of local experts.

It's a «if you build it, they will come» approach that sort of parallels one of Insight Venture Partners's previously funded startups: Twitter (TWTR).

Satnam Gambhir, president of Envision Financial Systems Inc., approached Hewlett - Packard, Intel and Microsoft with an idea: Create an alliance to target the narrow segment of the mutual fund and financial services market that Envision serves.

Why take a scatter - gun approach when a more targeted customer - funded effort — using one of the five models — might take you directly where you really want to go?

Basic accounts will be invested only in ETFs; customers who choose a «hybrid» approach will have a small percentage of their portfolio invested in actively managed funds, typically in fixed - income or international stocks — areas where, according to Messina, «some good managers can still outperform.»

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

Mark Oelschlager, manager of the Morningstar five - star rated Pin Oak Equity fund (POGSX), learned a lot from his father about managing a portfolio, but has found success by taking a slightly different approach.

Instead of buying funds and leaving them alone, many investment experts now recommend taking a more active approach to a portfolio.

Investors are suing Caine and Anish Parvataneni, a portfolio manager at LJM who previously worked for well - known fund investor Ken Griffin's Citadel, over what they said was inadequate disclosure about the risks of LJM's investment approach.

Investments in target - date mutual funds approached $ 1.16 trillion at the end of January, according to Morningstar.

Despite the hype, the public - private approach does not provide new funding sources to communities, nor does it work for many types of public projects.

Indeed, according to a portion of the DOJ's explanation to the court regarding the dossier's political funding that was included in the rebuttal memo, the agency said Steele was «approached by an identified U.S. Person» who asked him to look into «Candidate # 1's ties to Russia.»

Distaste for this no - holds - barred approach even led one prominent activist, Jeff Ubben, the CEO of hedge fund ValueAct, to stick up for Kleinfeld during a panel discussion on activism at the Milken Institute conference in May.

Indeed, the «fund - of - funds» approach is a common hedge ETF strategy, which strikes some strategists as needlessly complex.

Regardless of your approach, pals offer a big payoff, because they also build traction you can use later to get further funding.

Well, one startup is seeking to take a very different approach: Exonics Therapeutics, which has secured $ 5 million in seed funding from CureDuchenne Ventures to see if the revolutionary new CRISPR - Cas - 9 gene - editing technology can be used to target the root genetic deficiency at the heart of the disease.

Before revolutionizing the hedge fund industry with his mathematics - based approach, «Quant King» James Simons worked as a code breaker for the US Department of Defense during the Vietnam War, but was fired after criticizing the war in the press.

«Given the significant consequences of acting as an unregistered broker - dealer and the increased attention being given to this issue by the SEC staff, private - fund advisers should consider reviewing their practices to determine whether any activities that may be approaching or crossing the line would require broker - dealer registration,» David Blass, the chief counsel of the SEC's division of trading and markets, suggested in a speech last April.

Managers of these funds, which are based on a relatively new approach, believe that human behavior leads to certain market inefficiencies that they can take advantage of to get a superior return.

What's more, regardless of the lender you choose, many of these lenders take a very hands - on approach when working with borrowers and offer a lot of mentoring and advice along with the funds.

Located in South San Francisco, Calif., and funded by leading investors, including The Column Group (TCG), Kleiner Perkins (KP), Topspin Partners, GV and Celgene Corporation, we have assembled a leadership team and advisory group with a proven track record of success and team of scientists with substantial knowledge and expertise in drug discovery and translational areas essential to execute on this approach.

SPY's AUM Approaches $ 300B Taking in the bulk of this week's inflows was one fund: the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY).

Kevin Sabet, co-founder of anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, said his group would redouble efforts to build a broader coalition to beat back better - funded pro-cannabis groups ahead of 2016.

The investment approach of the teams advising the energy and renewable resources and infrastructure funds is similar to that of our Corporate Private Equity funds, with certain additional objectives.

We believe that this approach of seeking to align the interests of our key employees with those of the investors in our funds has been a key contributor to our strong performance and growth.

This is the treaty gap approach to funds management, carried out by matching maturities on opposite sides of the balance sheet in a given reporting period.

Located in South San Francisco, Calif., and funded by leading investors, including The Column Group (TCG), Kleiner Perkins (KP), Topspin Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Celgene Corporation, FLX Bio has assembled a leadership team and advisory group with a proven track record of success and team of scientists with substantial knowledge and expertise in drug discovery and translational areas essential to execute on this approach.

Technology companies are starting to take a more cautious approach compared with the go - go funding mantra of the past several years, when startups raised as much capital as they could at the highest valuations possible.

As previously noted, the allocations of target - date funds, such as the TDPs, grow more conservative as the funds approach maturity.

The company has been approached by funds looking to buy a stake, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Investors are suing Caine and Anish Parvataneni, a portfolio manager at LJM who previously worked for fund investor Ken Griffin's Citadel, over what they said was inadequate disclosure about the risks of LJM's investment approach.

Despite the volatile cryptocurrency market and an «unorthodox approach to raising funds,» though, Winding Tree successfully reached its target of $ 10 million, Hockenberry said.

When you get a traditional commercial real estate loan, you approach a lender, receive funds and pay the loan back to the lender over the course of several years.

A VERSATILE APPROACH TO INCOME The Portfolio seeks high current income and some long - term capital appreciation by investing primarily in a diversified mix of income and bond mutual funds.

In his mandate letters to the minister of international trade and to the minister of small business and tourism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for the two ministers to «prepare and execute a new Canadian international trade strategy to ensure that programs and approaches are supportive of small and medium - sized enterprises,» specifically making it easier for them to get access to government funding and export - oriented supports.

By adopting this approach, the Fund seeks to deliver consistent, positive returns irrespective of whether the equity market is rising or falling.

Yet, as we approached the raising of August VII, we sat down as a partnership and asked ourselves what we wanted our new fund to look like.