Sentences with phrase «several years funded»

The results of the study are in line with the advocacy of the foundation, which has for several years funded groups that promote using value - added metrics as part of a teacher's evaluation.

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As it turns out, it's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview with the Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there is at least one other case before the courts that he's involved in.

Global growth should hit 3.5 percent of gross domestic product this year and the next, but leaders need to address several financial vulnerabilities, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday ahead of a G20 meeting.

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.

«China's strong and sustained growth over the past several years has served as a linchpin for global trade, benefiting exporters of commodities and capital goods,» the fund said in a report.

«Over the past several years, NASA has been funding a group of psychologists to develop a software program astronauts could use, while aboard spacecraft, to help them work through depression and conflicts with their fellow space - goers.

Following CNN's report, several prominent Trump supporters slammed the special counsel or shifted attention onto Hillary Clinton and reports that her campaign had hired a law firm which retained Fusion GPS last year, the opposition - research firm that funded the so - called Steele dossier containing several salacious allegations about Trump's ties to Russia.

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

«When inDinero ran out of funding and I had to lay off our staff several years ago, I learned to never read or believe your own headlines, good or bad.

For the past several years, the fund has produced double - digit returns, a far better performance than any savings account, which is why you need to allocate even limited financial resources across different savings and investment vehicles.

GM has abandoned several money - losing markets over the past three years as part of a broader strategy to boost profit margins and conserve capital to fund electric and automated vehicles as well as new models for core markets in China, the U.S. and Latin America.

Wiseman said all of CPPIB's investment teams made material contributions last year, producing CPPIB's largest level of annual investment income since inception, but noted the Canada Pension Plan isn't expected to need to draw money from the fund until at least 2023 and, even then, at a relatively small amount for several years.

Though he complimented Ackman's intelligence on several occasions and said he did not believe they were still actively fighting, Icahn denied giving the hedge fund manager a hug at the same conference two years earlier.

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 hedge fund manager, whose Yelp stake was worth about $ 10 million at the end of 2015, has made at least several million dollars in the stock just this week, after telling investors that he believes the company's revenue could double in the next three years.

Of course, Apple is also looking to compete more with tech rivals like Amazon and Google on several entertainment fronts, especially after reportedly allocating $ 1 billion to fund production of original video content over the next year.

But research on the contact lenses began several years earlier at the University of Washington, where scientists worked under National Science Foundation funding.

After college, Bezos worked for several years in finance, including at hedge fund D. E. Shaw, where he had the idea to sell books over the Internet, according to the Wired feature.

For several years now, entrepreneurs have been talking about the «Series A crunch,» or the «valley of death» between seed and growth funding.

Canada's pension funds have been making increasingly risky bets for several years now.

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.

They set up their first private - equity fund several years ago with $ 70 million in investment capital; they just raised another $ 100 million, to support a second pool aimed at their particular investment niche.

The departure follows several difficult years for the UK hedge fund company and comes amid plans to rein in costs and reverse an exodus of investors from its funds.

Despite several rate hikes this year, the federal funds rate is low, which means other interest rates also are low.

His conviction in index funds for the general investor is so strong that he made a bet with several hedge fund managers in 2008 that 5 funds of their choosing would underperform the overall market over 10 years.

I've been pretty inactive for the past several years just sticking with index funds and asset allocation mixes.

But construction of Russia's portion of the bridge, however, stalled for several years due to funding issues, questions over the recipients of construction contracts and ownership structures, as well as permit difficulties.

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.

Since the U.K. eliminated its tax on income earned outside the country several years ago, it's become increasingly popular for so - called corporate inversions, a controversial practice in which a foreign company buys a U.K. company, primarily to lower its tax bill, says Andrew Needham, a tax partner at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds.

Putting away a percentage of your monthly income into a retirement fund as early as 30 years old means you can take advantage of several years of compound interest — and with little to no risk.

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.

Four years after striking out from big - brand venture capital firms to set up their own shop, Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad are back for more with a second fund and several high - profile new supporters.

Last year, Chinese regulators told banks to stop providing funding for several of Wanda's overseas acquisitions as Beijing looks to curb what it sees as irrational spending by some major domestic conglomerates, sources have said.

The pace has continued this year, with several firms announcing new funding rounds in the tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars.

With respect to Thiel's other companies, I have found 14 Review alumni who have worked for Thiel Capital Management and Clarium Capital Management, including several vice presidents; five who have worked for Founders Fund, including a cofounder, Howery; two at Valar Ventures; and three more who worked at PayPal who joined after the first few years.

Unlike several other high profile hedge fund closures this year, the decision does not appear to be directly related to poor performance or redemptions.

After several successful years, her fund tumbled for three consecutive quarters, leading three large institutional clients to shift their business elsewhere.

The report also analyzes how the better farmers are subsidizing the less - productive ones, and how the whole system costs several hundred million dollars a year in debt servicing costs, capital that could be better used to fund tangible and productive assets.

I have never been even remotely an expert either on iron and steel production or on the Australian economy, but recent action in the iron ore markets and a vibrant debate within Australia has, in the past three weeks, set me up for several planned and unplanned meetings with Australians — some old friends, some fund managers and bankers, some government officials — who remembered some of the comments I made a few years ago about Australia and iron ore and who wanted to discuss future prospects.

And if you're retired and relying on government bond funds, the decline since July has wiped out several years worth of income.

Moreover, one of the most important stories of the last several years is how the structure of Silicon Valley itself is changing, particularly when it comes to funding.

Previously she helped establish, build and manage three funds and over 200 + investments at Lerer Hippeau Ventures in New York City as Director of Operations for several years.

Last year saw a giant influx of crypto hedge funds while in 2018 several have closed or failed to launch.

When thinking about your fixed income investment options, bear in mind that over the past several years, traditional bond funds have become much more correlated to stocks.

As the year comes to a close, the company has also committed $ 5 million to funding several organizations that focus on preventing sexual assault and domestic violence.

For several years now, the Fed has been purchasing mortgage - backed securities and holding the federal funds rate near 0 % in order to stimulate a sluggish economy.

And just yesterday, Mester supported her colleagues» notion to announce a plan for balance sheet reduction, which will take «several years,» as well as a return to using the federal funds rate as the «main tool» for monetary policy.

Hedge funds enjoyed a heyday for several years from 1993 to the financial crash of 2007, earning outsized returns of 12.7 percent annually after fees, according to Hedge Fund Research.

But if you again look at the performance graphs I referenced earlier, you'll see that all of our Funds have endured periods, sometimes for several years, when they have either lost money or lost ground relative to their benchmarks.