Sentences with phrase «say the funding of»

U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say the funding of additional positions will bring the department to a staffing level in line with National Fire Protection Association standards.

Bloomberg said the funding of the Islamic and community center near Ground Zero is none of the government's business.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.

After Amazon launched the Alexa Fund, one of its portfolio companies called foul, saying that the company had cloned its product with the Echo show.

«Most of the startups Bloomberg Beta invests in and works with have an open plan,» says Karin Klein, a partner at Beta, a Bloomberg venture fund that invests in early stage technology companies.

Consistent delays can potentially taint crowd funding in the eyes of the public, Mollick says, adding that entrepreneurs need to be more realistic about their goals, and that backers need to be more patient.

When I asked him if he still believed that mutual funds were the best investment vehicle for 90 % of the investing public, he said that — what else could the CEO of Morningstar possibly say?

«When the government [shuts] down it limits the flow of fiscal funds to different parts of the economy, and that uncertainty can be damaging to the economy,» Meyerhoefer says.

John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $ 2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund, revealed a long position in U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc, which he said should rise as more millennials age into the first - time home buyer market.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

Typically, people need to invest about $ 500,000 to access an investment council — some of the bigger name firms include Gluskin Sheff and Leon Frazer & Associates — but fees are lower, about 1 % to 1.5 % of total assets, instead of a 2.5 % fee on an individual mutual fund, says Mackenzie.

«It's laughable that nobody has paid attention to that,» says Rafi Tahmazian, a portfolio manager with oversight of several energy funds at Canoe Financial in Calgary.

«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

«The current pace of repricing in fed funds is not immediately problematic for the Fed and there is yet time to price more into the curve, though we'd argue that at the June meeting, it's likely the markets will have to come to grips with the possibility of a fourth hike in 2018 and price more appropriately,» Lyngen said.

«I was really skeptical of this concept at first, since it was so out of the box,» says Doug Weber, a bioengineer and neuroscientist at DARPA, who helped fund the neural dust research.

«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.

According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

LONDON — Pierre Andurand, a leading oil fund manager, said that lack of investment in new production could lead to a situation where $ 300 per barrel oil is «not impossible» within the next few years, Bloomberg reported.

And so what the Fed is basically saying here is that because investors are using mutual funds to invest in bonds, instead of owning the bonds, there could be a problem if investors all want to leave at the same time.

One could say that private equity funds have, at least in their thirst for assets and their run - of - the - mill returns, begun to resemble grubby, conventional mutual funds.

«I don't have a lot of confidence that the Canadian banks wouldn't impose some restrictions on my fund that I'm not interested in having,» he says.

Curbing all kinds of gun violence and other crimes comes down to more funding for effective enforcement, says Jake Novak.

April 15 - A unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management said it now held the largest stake in Whitbread Plc, making it the second activist in recent months to draw attention to Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator.

She said «most of the founders we work with look at YC as the gold standard,» and that distancing the fund from YC could «hinder our chances of raising successor funds.»

Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

At the opening of the trial in Rome, the U.S. investment bank the other defendants asked a three - judge panel at the Court of Accounts, which rules on abuses of public funds, to reject the case in an acknowledgement that the judges do not have jurisdiction, Marco Fratini, one of the judges, said.

«If you define it as generating returns that aren't commoditized, that aren't easy, by doing things that others are constrained from doing, then $ 3 trillion is just way too small,» Andrew Feldstein, head of BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, said in reference to the current size of the overall hedge fund industry.

Musk made the offer in response to a comment made on social media by Mike Cannon - Brookes, the co-founder of Australian software maker Atlassian (team), who said he would be willing to line up funding and political support if Tesla could supply batteries that would solve South Australia's problems.

«This current funding round sets the stage for us to further invest in expanding our lead in the sector in areas like automation, drones and robotics,» Richard Liu, chairman and CEO of JD.com, said in a statement Wednesday.

Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp said the agreement is important because methane is responsible for about a quarter of today's warming, and the U.S. and Canada are the world's second - and fourth - largest emitters of oil and gas methane respectively.

David Jr. says he hopes the legacy of the Rockefellers isn't about their wealth, but the more enduring causes that wealth has funded.

«We expect the ECB to extend QE again towards the end of next year, ahead of finishing the program in December 2018, paving the way for a rise in interest rates in the first half of 2019,» said Azad Zangana, senior European economist with London - based fund manager Schroders.

«It's unclear who would be willing to sign such a binding agreement under the current environment of deteriorating public finances and the need to raise funds to finance wars,» said Rangasamy.

The real estate investment trust, based in New York, said it had funds from operations of $ 55 million, or 23 cents per share, in the period.

If that's too much, cut the tax paid by fast - growing companies, which are the ones outfits such as the International Monetary Fund say are deserving of special treatment.

The senators originally promised to include the measures in a year - end spending bill, but because Congress is only working to pass a short - term extension of federal government funding this week, Collins and Alexander say they will include the bills in an omnibus bill in January.

Blake says that going forward, one solution might be to present options in addition to just the APR, to help business owners really understand the cost of the funds they're borrowing.

«There's no way I'm raising a $ 500 - million fund later if the first one doesn't hit it out of the park,» he says.

«With rewards - based crowd funding, there isn't a body of case law,» says Andrea Johnson, a partner with FMC Law in Ottawa.

But Prodi said he was not aware that the funds Gusenbauer had paid him had come from Manafort, and were part of «normal private relations I had with him,» and was «not any money from external sources.»

«It's hard to know what the cause of the delay is,» said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds.

One of his sayings I now pass on to every start - up we fund: that it's better, initially, to make a small number of users really love you than a large number kind of like you.

«Movenpick marks an acceleration towards its development in the luxury part of the sector, as well as the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific,» said Roche Brune Asset Management fund...

Accomplishing that goal is harder than it sounds, he says, and much of the company's funding is going into R&D.

«I just thought he was worth backing no matter what he did,» says Farris, who compares Tehrani to another entrepreneur he funded from the outset, Geordie Rose of quantum computer maker D - Wave Systems.

Investors have been saying, WeLike to WeWork: This year Neumann and his coworking company raised an additional $ 2.5 billion in funding — much of which is earmarked toward aggressive expansion in Asia — at a valuation of $ 20 billion.

After Amazon launched the Alexa Fund, one of its portfolio companies called foul, saying that the company had

Today's high valuations in a time of tepid economic growth are particularly vexing for professional investors constrained by certain rules, says James Harper, a portfolio manager for the Templeton Global Balanced Fund.

LONDON, April 20 - British emerging markets - focused hedge fund Onslow Capital Management has closed after a long period of low volatility hit returns and assets fell below a sustainable level, it said in a letter to investors.