Sentences with phrase «on public funding as»

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''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»
«Oddly because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it,» he added.
But as of 2016, Scott, who was a hospital executive before launching a bid for Governor, had a net worth of nearly $ 150 million, according to his public financial disclosure forms, and he used funds from his personal fortune on his gubernatorial elections in 2010 and 2014.
Gov. Scott had urged public calm, even as he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) pleaded with the federal government to provide more resources and called on Ryan and McConnell to summon lawmakers into a special session to break the impasse over the Zika funding bill.
«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Associafunds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Associafunds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds AssociaFunds Association.
Wiseman cautioned that the CPPIB — despite its large size in Canadian terms — competes against much bigger investors in the global market such as private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and other public pension plans that are also on the hunt for similar types of investments.
As the private deals get too big for VCs to underwrite on their own, some public money is making its way into them, through direct investments from mutual funds like Fidelity, Janus, and T. Rowe Price, and indirectly via pension - backed hedge funds and private equity.
«[A] most every kind of public policy decision [today is] made as a matter of a cost - benefit ratio,» governance advocate Robert A. G. Monks, explained in a 2008 interview published on the website Social Funds.
According to figures that the National Venture Capital Association diligently collects through primary research and publishes on their Web site, last year was somewhat typical in that 1,334 start - ups got funded, but only 13 % as many achieved an IPO (81 last year) or an acquisition large enough to warrant a public disclosure of the price (95 last year).
The CCPA today released my report: â $ œThe Big Banks Big Secretâ $ which provides the first public estimates of the emergency funds taken by Canadian banks. The report bases its estimates on publicly available data from CMHC, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, as well as quarterly -LSB-...]
Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.
In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.
He concluded that, based on the current stated amount of underfunding at every big pension fund, if the Dow / SPX declined 10 % or more over a sustained period of time — where «sustained period» is defined as 3 - 4 month — every public pension fund in the country would collapse.
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Even so, as long as the yield on the preferred is higher than the Treasury's funding costs, the favorable terms will represent an insufficient risk premium but not a loss to the public.
Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.
Going against the Silicon Valley orthodoxy, the venture capitalist has urged technology start - ups to go public as soon as they are able, instead of continuing to take venture capital funding: Taking on too much venture funding, he has said, can fuel a lack of discipline.
This is because contributing appreciated assets to a public charity (including to a donor - advised fund account) may eliminate capital gains tax on the sale of those assets and thereby increase your giving by as much as 20 %.
As I wrote back in October, more and more companies are opting to raise funds through ICOs instead of going public to bypass many of the restrictive rules and costs associated with getting listed on an exchange.
His Royal Highness, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, Chairman of PIF, commented as follows: «The Public Investment Fund is focused on achieving attractive long - term financial returns from its investments at home and abroad, as well as supporting the Kingdom's Vision 2030 strategy to develop a diversified economy.
As of March 27, 2017, the Company agreed to fund up to $ 300,000 to settle outstanding convertible debt of and accounts payable by and on behalf of Rimrock Gold Corp. («Rimrock»), for the ultimate acquisition of Rimrock, a currently inactive public company located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).
As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring PersoAs long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Persoas PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.
«Market participants will look back on this municipal green bond issuance for Massachusetts, and see it as the gateway to further green bond issuances across the many states and many cities that are hoping to access less expensive funding to improve infrastructure, protect natural resources and offer renewable energy,» says Bill Daley, Managing Director in Public Finance.
They use a long - run sentiment index derived from principal component analysis of six sentiment measures: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium; the closed - end fund discount; the number of and first - day returns on Initial Public Offerings; and, the equity share in new issues.
The snappily dressed former Facebook executive, who co-founded Social Capital in 2011, made early bets on Bitcoin, started a hedge fund, and raised $ 600 million to help startups go public through an unconventional vehicle known as a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company.
Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.
The cost of token - holder relations and maintaining an active community, the cost of needing now to execute on their projects in the public eye, and the cost of needing to «mature» as a business quickly to responsibly handle the large amount of funds raised.
Prior says that «as the aging population starts to jeopardise the sustainability of current healthcare funding it will place increased pressure on both public and private payers to find cheaper, more efficient ways of delivering care, and where possible reduce the need for care in the first place.»
They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»
John also served as the VP and Head of Corporate Development for an early - stage renewable energy and feed company based in Florida as well as a Director in Business Development at Valens Capital, a billion dollar hedge fund focused on providing flexible, custom - tailored and cost - effective debt and equity growth financing solutions to small - cap public and private companies.
That, in light of $ 3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present, allowing for redaction based on national security: (a) all Public Security and Anti-Terrorism annual reports submitted to the Treasury Board Secretariat; (b) all Treasury Board submissions made as part of the Initiative; (c) all departmental evaluations of the Initiative; (d) the Treasury Board corporate database established to monitor funding; that these records be provided to the House in both official languages by June 17, 2013; that the Speaker make arrangements for these records to be made available online; and that the Auditor - General be given all necessary resources to perform an in - depth forensic audit until the missing $ 3.1 billion is found and accounted for.
As part of the investment, the managing director at the Public Investment Fund, Yasir Al Rumayyan, will take a seat on Uber's board, joining Mr. Kalanick and other directors, including Arianna Huffington.
By donating highly appreciated alternative investments to a public charity or donor - advised fund account, you can take a full, fair market value tax deduction — as determined by a qualified appraisal — for the donation while also eliminating capital gains tax on the sale.
Having worked of hundreds of commercial real estate transactions across all property types, Mr. Albano is well versed on the challenges and opportunities facing public and private real estate owners and developers as well debt investors including banks, insurance companies, and private sponsor funds.
«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.
«To ensure public shareholders are not disadvantaged, any takeover bid would need to be put to a shareholder vote and any recommendation by the board would have to be based on an appropriate premium as well as safeguards for future probity given past track records of the businesses controlled by the Murdoch family», said Kieran Quinn, chairman of Britain's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).
Sarah serves on the Board of Directors of Quest Resource Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: QRHC), on the Young Executive Board of iMentor, on the Executive Council of the Alumni Council at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University and as Chair of the Sustainability Committee of the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable.
Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)
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Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
In St. Louis, for example, a judge overturned a city ordinance that would have required a public vote on funding for a new stadium, clearing the way for a riverfront project that will cost $ 388 million in tax incentives and state and city bond proceeds as part of a $ 998 million plan that may or may not convince the Rams to stay.
«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
As venture capitalists rush to fund the latest app that puts bunny ears on our faces or makes the world's most expensive juice, they need to back up their Medium posts and public platitudes with cold, hard cash.
The paediatricians say that although the college has «progressively distanced» itself from such sponsorship, they warn that receiving any form of funding from manufacturers «will distort public and professional perceptions of the college stance on breast feeding as well as their advice on the appropriate clinical use of breast milk substitutes.
They «re on a gravy train - fat television and radio contracts, booming gate receipts, and now public funds as well.
And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.
Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.
Interestingly, the National Council cited the public comments of Mr. Paul Afoko on an alleged criminal conduct of two National Officers with respect to illegal use of party funds as one of the reasons for their petition.
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