Sentences with phrase «scale investment fund»

DATA BASE SELECTION PROCESSES: The automated database selection processes were employed on large scale investment fund datasets which were thought to encompass almost the universe of investable investment company funds.

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He adds that the fund will focus on «large - scale job creation» with investments in real estate, e-commerce, and emerging innovation in China and India.

To learn how to scale up — and what mistakes to avoid — we spoke with Andy White, director of the Las Vegas Tech Fund, which is part of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's $ 350 million personal investment in the city.

A consortium of New Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital, and EverStream Energy Capital Management today announced that it has closed an investment of $ 67.3 million to fund the development and construction of utility ‐ scale solar photovoltaic power projects in Central... Continue reading →

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund, a leading investor in clean infrastructure real assets, has made a follow - on investment in Cypress Creek Renewables, a leading developer and long - term owner of small to mid-size utility scale solar energy projects.

This fund has scaled to 75 + investments, which includes winners such as Cruise Automation (acquired by GM), 99 (acquired by Didi) and Zoom.

I should note that Lightspeed is limited, compared with full - scale brokerage firms such as E * TRADE and TD Ameritrade, which also offer bonds, mutual funds and other investments in addition to stocks and options.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale -Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale -fund Living Goods» scale - up.

Rebates generated through Sweden's Premium Pension system will be paid out on 5 May, but only one in 10 users of the system recognise the scale and advantage that the rebates bring them, according to the Swedish Investment Fund Association (Fondbolagens förening).

Previous investors were led by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.

Her fund helps tech entrepreneurs and startups scale overseas through investment, operational support, business development, and partnerships.

As foreshadowed in The Australian Financial Review AAM Investment Group's Southern Cross Poultry Fund has just completed the acquisition of seven large - scale poultry farms north - east of Adelaide for about $ 50 million after raising $ 36.2 million of equity.

Firmenich, Danone and Mars announced plans to make a significant investment through Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming (Livelihoods 3F) in a large - scale, innovative vanilla farming model in Madagascar.

He said his fund, along with most others in Australia, did not have a long history of investing in agriculture but this was in part because of a lack of scale and difficult investment options presented by the agriculture industry.

First State Super has historically outsourced most of its investment decisions to external fund managers but had increased in size and scale and was making much more of its investment decisions internally.

Investments and collaborations to promote environmental sustainability: Through global alliances such as the Trash Free Seas Alliance, founding of the bio-PET NaturALL Bottle Alliance, and investments in large - scale organizations like Closed Loop Fund, Keep America Beautiful and start - ups like RecycleUp, Nestlé Waters is collaborating with stakeholders across the PET value chain to create shared solutions to one of the world's most pressing environmenInvestments and collaborations to promote environmental sustainability: Through global alliances such as the Trash Free Seas Alliance, founding of the bio-PET NaturALL Bottle Alliance, and investments in large - scale organizations like Closed Loop Fund, Keep America Beautiful and start - ups like RecycleUp, Nestlé Waters is collaborating with stakeholders across the PET value chain to create shared solutions to one of the world's most pressing environmeninvestments in large - scale organizations like Closed Loop Fund, Keep America Beautiful and start - ups like RecycleUp, Nestlé Waters is collaborating with stakeholders across the PET value chain to create shared solutions to one of the world's most pressing environmental issues.

The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has announced the approval of a $ 230 million scaling - up Renewable Energy Investment Plan (SREP - IP) by the Climate Investment Fund.

We need to look urgently at the options for getting large - scale private investment into the national roads network — from sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other investors.

Dangote, who made this known during the 2017 Niger State Investment Summit in Minna, said the funds would be used to establish a large scale rice processing mill to process over 200, 000 metric tonnes of paddy rice.

Crucially, the new organization will partner a host of other institutions such as Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, providers of mobile money services, cooperatives, Town & Country Planning Department, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, National Board for Small Scale Industries, GRATIS Foundation, Venture Capital Trust Fund, the commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, and of course, the District Assemblies tInvestment Promotion Centre, providers of mobile money services, cooperatives, Town & Country Planning Department, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, National Board for Small Scale Industries, GRATIS Foundation, Venture Capital Trust Fund, the commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, and of course, the District Assemblies tinvestment banks, insurance companies, and of course, the District Assemblies themselves.

Under the Scale Up Manufacturing Investment Company Act of 2015, Gillibrand says, private investors would be able to leverage federal dollars which would provide extra incentive to fund new manufacturing businesses.

Federal funders that have made significant investments include the National Science Foundation, through its Science of Learning Centers program, which offers awards for large - scale centers dedicated to the science of learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to education.

As recommended by the National Academies, ARPA - E funding should be seen in the context of expanding overall energy R&D investment to a level that begins to meet the scale and complexity of the challenge.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

The findings will further support our Investment Fund in rapidly scaling up careers and enterprise programmes that work across England.

And the «venture philanthropy» principles are not the sole purview of the new guard — any funder can employ strategic investment with a guiding vision, clear expectations for grantees including measurable outcomes and accountability, and a clear articulation of the desired scale and nature of impact.

One example of this is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's withdrawal from its small schools investments, which left districts with the burden of funding schools that were more expensive to run based on economies of scale.

The FY2019 budget continues investments and adds $ 350,000 towards funding the district Pre-K teachers on the APS salary scale, bringing the total supplement for this effort to $ 1.3 million

Even if we eventually decide to scale back the time we put in, and go with an advisor or put all our investments in index funds, we'd still be better educated and more involved because of our experiences.

In the first part of this series, we saw that mutual funds are the dominant investment vehicle for individuals because they reduce risk through diversification on a scale that individuals can not achieve on their own.

Third, a notion that there exists an «average investor» whose investments into and withdrawals from the fund precisely mimicked the inflows and outflows generated by all of the fund's investors in both time and relative scale (for one, there is no proof that these same investors who cashed out later reinvested into the fund).

Mutual Funds is not only an investment or a onetime business, it goes on and gets managed professionally on a large scale.

... a notion that there exists an «average investor» whose investments into and withdrawals from the fund precisely mimicked the inflows and outflows generated by all of the fund's investors in both time and relative scale (for one, there is no proof that these same investors who cashed out later reinvested into the fund).

Investors in the Fund risk that the Adviser may not be successful in implementing the Fund's investment strategy and the Fund may not achieve scale.

Through this arrangement, the NextShares fund and corresponding mutual fund effectively share the same portfolio management and investments, positioning both funds to potentially benefit from economics of scale.

As for other funds offered in the plan, the complaint says that, rather than taking advantage of the plan's economies of scale, as required by its investment policy statement (IPS), to reduce the investment expenses charged to plan participants, Philips North America selected and maintained high - priced share classes of mutual funds, instead of identical lower - cost share classes of those same mutual funds which were readily available to the plan.

After automatic retirement investments, I use our cash / bank account to trap excess capital, and then we make large scale purchases from that (post-tax equities, contributions to our charitable fund, home improvements, or travel).

Robo - Advisers, given their scale, can often access funds with higher investment minimums that are outside of the range most private investors can manage on their own.

Investors in pooled fund investments benefit from economies of scale, which allow for lower trading costs per dollar of investment, diversification and professional money management.

«The United States... is marked by a large number of self - directed investors, economies of scale, a high level of price competition, a retirement tax preference that uses the same investments for tax - preferred investments, and one of the highest percentages of assets paying an outside advisory fee not reflected in a fund's total expense ratio,» the GFIE report said.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

-- Put a sufficiently high price on carbon and deliver the G - 20 commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, using these funds to contribute to the several hundred billion US dollars per year needed to scale up investments in renewable energy.

-- Scaling - up the Renewable Energy Program — to offer policy support and technical assistance to low - income countries under the World Bank's Strategic Climate Fund, with the aim of advancing national renewable energy projects and covering capital costs associated with renewable energy investments.

Indeed, it became clear that doing both was essential — private investment was the only real hope for attracting the scale of financing needed to end deforestation, while government funding was necessary to build the scientific and policy infrastructure and developing country capacity necessary for a robust private investment system — and to accomplish conservation goals to which private investment was less well suited.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

In April, the United Kingdom revived its investment in CCS with the announcement of a new competition allotting # 1 billion ($ 1.6 billion) in funding for commercial - scale projects.

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation - which «aims to demonstrably improve the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries by achieving large - scale, sustainable impact».

The sustainable investment forum gathers around 300 stakeholders from national and regional governments, international finance, private industry and carbon management sectors — the perfect event where we think we can share with our peers regarding the trends, the best practices but also participate in progressing the dialogue on the development of effective public - private funding mechanisms for scaling low carbon innovation.