Sentences with phrase «recent years the fund»

In recent years funding from the City of Cannon Beach Tourism and Arts Committee has allowed the group to access wider avenues for promotion and hire an experienced Marketing and Public Relations professional.

Exxon also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years funding groups such as Washington Legal Foundation, Pacific Legal Foundation, and American Tort Reform Association to file briefs using Exxon's research and arguing Exxon's position on punitive damages to courts across the country, including prominently the United States Supreme Court.

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In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns too.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

Also known as the Ira Sohn conference, the event has been the site some of hedge funds» best — and worst — calls in recent years.

The ride - hailing startup raised several billion dollars in recent years, including $ 3.5 billion from a Saudi Arabian investment fund and $ 2 billion in the form of a leveraged loan.

Magnetar's tactic of filing lawsuits challenging takeover valuations in order to make money, also known as appraisal arbitrage, has become increasing popular with hedge funds in recent years, especially in the merger litigation hotbed of Delaware.

Long associated with older industries, Osaka has struggled to get out of the shadow of Tokyo as a start - up hub, but it has upped its game in recent years with new start - up investment funds, downtown university campuses, incubators and pitch events.

He'll argue that insufficient funding for the NHS over recent years was one of the reasons 52 % of British people voted for Brexit last year.

Such deals, of course, haven't exactly been commonplace in recent years, which has mezzanine funds searching for alternative investments.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

Charles Birnbaum, Bessemer Venture Partners: «Valuations in the alternative - lending space were overly optimistic in our opinion over the prior five years, but we do feel that the pendulum has likely swung back too far in the other direction following the recent pullback» leaving the sector ripe for potential funding or M&A.

Commodity hedge funds have dwindled in recent years as oil prices slumped, leaving only a handful of larger players, including Hall, who ran the Astenbeck Capital Management fund until deciding to close it following losses this year.

In a recent speech to the Providence Chamber of Commerce, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said, «I think it will be appropriate at some point this year to take the initial step to raise the federal - funds rate target and begin the process of normalizing monetary policy.»

While the agency's loan - guarantee fund expects to lose $ 16.68 million, the SBA has never reached its cap, despite recent record - lending years.

Several major commodities funds also lost money on oil wagers or shut in recent years.

For years, B Corp certification was rumored to hurt a startup's ability to attract investors, but recent deals have debunked this theory: San Francisco - based education company Altschool has raised $ 170 million from venture capitalists, and Data.world, an Austin - based tech startup, recently closed $ 19 million in Series B funding.

In recent years, he's started a company called HVF (standing for, enjoyably, «Hard, Valuable, and Fun»), a firm designed to fund projects looking to leverage data and joined Yahoo!'s Board of Directors.

The Vanguard High Yield Corporate Bond fund has underperformed Treasuries in the recent downturn, but it still has a positive return of 0.5 percent in the year - to - date through Oct. 27.

While some skepticism arose over the search fund model in its early days, continued success (and average returns north of 30 percent) has led to significant growth of the category in recent years.

Venture capitalists can invest in startups or growing companies — however, it's worth noting that the number of businesses funded by venture capitalists has gone down in recent years.

However, a recent report by the College Savings Association showed plans were successfully funded at a rate of 93 % in 2011 — up 2 points from the prior fiscal year.

Several high - profile funds have disappointed in recent years, including David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital and Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which posted gains of just 1.6 percent and 3.7 percent respectively last year.

The number of ETFs on the market has skyrocketed this year more than ever, forcing me in recent months to look again at my long - held preference for cheap index funds.

The restructuring is especially interesting because with its far flung businesses and business ideas, in recent years, Google has resembled a collection of disparate enterprises like you might see within a single mutual fund but with a major difference: The company sits outside that specialized statutory structure, as Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway does.

Another wrinkle in this year's meeting comes from the recent revelations that board member Peter Thiel has been privately funding lawsuits against Gawker Media, including the recent Hulk Hogan suit that resulted in a $ 140 million judgment against the news website that sent Gawker into bankruptcy.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

Donors Capital Fund also made several multi-million dollar contributions to firms in their most recent reported fiscal year, 2010.

A recent WSJ article, «Venture - Capital Firms Draw a Rush of New Money,» highlights that VC firms are raising new funds from LPs at the highest rate in 15 years, even though cash liquidity is sitting at a seven - year low.

Asked whether the flurry of recent bets means Revolution might be preparing to raise another growth fund next year, Case says the firm is «still very much focused on investing» its current fund.

Mr. Ferguson is the second executive to leave the activist hedge fund in recent years to set up his own firm, after Mick McGuire departed to start Marcato Capital Management in 2010.

These funds have been pulling their members» money out of hedge funds in recent years, after getting hit with a «double whammy — poor investment performance accompanied by huge fees.»

The U.S. rate hike that the market is 100 percent certain will be delivered this week did not stop Dividend Equity Funds from recording their biggest inflow since the record setting $ 9.4 billion they took in exactly three years ago, with investors translating recent earnings per share growth and expected repatriation of foreign cash piles into bigger dividend payouts.

And while it hit a rough patch a few years back, Tides remains a funding juggernaut, pulling in $ 218 million in a recent year and making $ 131 million in grants.

In recent years, Facebook has added a marketplace feature that is similar to Craigslist, and a tab that allows people to donate money that mimics features of crowdsourced funding apps.

She built the Philanthropy Roundtable during its formative years, and then helped found DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund, which runs donor - advised funds for conservative and libertarian donors; together, they moved over $ 100 million in a recent year.

Since 2009, Sullivan has led one of the world's largest corporate funders and a vast employee volunteer operation that contributed some 2 million hours of service in a recent year.

In recent years, the biggest bond buyers have been the Federal Reserve, foreigners and mutual funds, but that may be changing.

As has become usual in recent years, the fund saved its starkest warnings for Europe.

Inflation rates have been very low in recent years, which is another reason the Fed hasn't felt compelled to raise the federal funds rate.

In recent years, many agri - tech startups have raised funds.

In recent years, money has flooded into low - cost index funds and out of more expensive actively managed funds, thanks in part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long term.

There are a range of factors that affect the flows of goods and services across international borders, but the sustained outflow of funds from some emerging economies witnessed in recent years may have as much to do with the limited intermediation capacity of the local financial systems as with the scarcity of profitable domestic investment opportunities.

Zomato's most recent funding round earlier this year saw it raise $ 200 million (Rs 1,300 crore) from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's payment affiliate.

China — a country that has grown by leaps and bounds in expertise in recent years — has aggressively funded development of next - generation technology in ways that have alarmed some foreign governments and businesses.

TORONTO (Reuters)- The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the company in recent weeks.

The iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF (NYSEArca: EWY) has traded slightly higher this year and the largest exchange traded fund tracking South Korean stocks is up following the recent...

Once considered a very popular method to piggybacking on the success of a better, established mutual fund, the strategy has become less common in recent years.

The industry's most successful quarter in recent years was the third quarter of 2015, when $ 43 billion worth of funds closed.