Sentences with phrase «smaller number of holdings»

I am beginning to hate the idea of market cap weighting, especially in a fund with a smaller number of holdings like REZ.

Nowadays, I believe that DRIP portfolios are best suited to a small number of holdings that can be easily followed and are somewhat predictable.

In a study known as, «Big Bets,» it was found that domestic stock portfolios with strong weightings in a relatively small number of holdings delivered higher returns — both before and after expenses — than portfolios which held more uniformly weighted positions.

Not exact matches

Shannon used to run large diversified funds — she was once a star manager at CI Financial — but she now manages portfolios that hold a smaller number of mostly Canadian stocks.

Wellins recently relocated from Texas and has held senior leadership roles in retail, digital and small business banking for a number of well - known financial institutions in Texas, New York, Arizona and California throughout his more than 20 year career.

Amid this volatile economic climate, small business owners may be facing a number of challenges, such as holding too much inventory or sluggish receivables, which can send a business's cash flow into the red.

The Swedish privately - held company behind Minecraft is also unusual in that it employs a small number of people but generates a healthy profit.

Rather than hold an ETF, which mirrors an index that can contain hundreds of companies, a concentrated portfolio would hold only a small number of securities (sometimes as few as two or three).

While Site C holds the prospect of creating a substantial number of jobs, the vast majority would be camp jobs in one small district of the province.

I'm holding for the long term and will consider selling small amounts as I get closer to that magic number of retirement.

There are strings and conditions, of course, but essentially it gives angels the benefit of a zero capital gains rate for investments made in «qualified small business stock» that is purchased within a set time frame and held for a minimum number of years.

What the authorities admitted holding as of last summer was almost unbelievably small compared to what even the official figures streaming through Hong Kong alone, plus domestic production add to the total, and China is now the number one global gold producer.

While the chances that one of the bonds in the portfolio will default are higher because of the mutual fund's large number of holdings, the loss in relation to the total holdings will be smaller.

The number of shares that an investor needs to hold to have these rights is typically set low enough to ensure that the smallest venture fund (or significant angel) in a syndicate receives the rights and high enough to avoid giving rights to numerous small investors.

The Small - Cap and SMid - Cap Equity strategies are concentrated strategies that are not managed to a benchmark, so there are material differences in characteristics, such as the number of holdings and sector and industry weightings.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

She research [ed] and verified how a very small number of families created an «interlocking directory» of relationships through owning major businesses, holding significant or controlling interests in multiple forms of media (both print and broadcast), serving on major philanthropical foundations and / or non-profit boards, and involving themselves in the shaping of local politics.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Bales reminds us that while today's 27 million may be the largest number of slaves ever held at one time, historically it is the smallest proportion of slaves relative to the world's total population, which suggests that slavery as an institution is declining.

Pastor Stan Weatherford told WLBT TV in Jackson he was surprised when a small number of church members opposed holding the wedding at the church.

I suggest in all seriousness, sir, your sort of vanishingly small number of fans are those holding our club back from vital change.You are, in effect, our enemy.

You're holding grudges against EVERYONE for something a very small number of people did.

Second, because the number of teams to play for is smaller, it should hold that only the best players are on the teams and thus the court.

For the Republicans, voters back the plan to provide sweeping tax cuts and credits to small businesses and a 46 percent approval rating of the chamber where they hold a narrow 32 - 29 majority — an unusually high number given the Legislature's historically awful reputation with New Yorkers.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

and in addition, if a significant portion (even a small minority) of the parliament asks for referendum, they can ask a certain number of citizens to sign the referendum, and if this certain number of signatures is reached, a referendum is held.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

In my experience in recent years, the number of Labour Party members locally who hold similar political views to me outnumber all of the smaller parties combined.

A number of state legislators once eager to hold hearings into drinking water contamination by a cancer - causing chemical in the small town of Hoosick Falls now seem loathe to even discuss the matter.

«The media overlap in Johnstown - where all three stations are either owned or managed by the Baltimore - based Sinclair Broadcast Group - is part of a trend that has spread across the country,» they write, «as a small number of large holding companies are taking over local TV stations, often more than one in the same market.»

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

«I ran for NYC Council in 1997 after a career as a teacher, city planner, small business owner, district manager of a community board, and having held a number of civic leadership roles.»

Christine received 62 votes against a small number of write - in votes in a special election held March 20, 2018.

While the 19th and 20th Council Districts are held by two Republicans, Dan Halloran and Peter Koo, the local political clubs are small in number and are often a heaven's waiting room of senior citizens jockeying for a free cup of coffee and stale Entenmann's crumb cake.

It's actually a small, fanny pack style bag that will still hold a number of different items (as well as your beverage).

Observers agreed that Congress was likely to try hard to hold the line against budget increases and to provide extra funding only for a small number of high national priorities.

Even a relatively sedentary fish like the lingcod can rack up a large number of detections by swimming back and forth or circling in a small vicinity within the receiver's range — or simply by holding still and hovering over a given spot within that range while the receiver tallies pings.

Although they make up a small fraction of the Ozarks» biomass, lichens hold a disproportionate number of its nutrients.

MiSciNet: A small number of minority scientists hold postdoc positions in national laboratories and academia.

However, about 10 percent of them are common across multiple cancers, suggesting that a relatively small number of therapies targeting these core dependencies might each hold promise for combatting several tumors.

A congressionally mandated committee is holding public hearings on the issue, a series of recent symposia have focused attention on the small number of female researchers, and faculty women and sympathetic male colleagues around the country are debating the matter more openly with administrators (Science, 11 June, p. 1757).

Raman spectroscopy is now increasingly available in single purpose hand held units that can identify the presence of a small number of target substances with ease - of - use appropriate for field work by law enforcers, first responders or researchers in the field.

You can also use these to hold smaller travel documents and important numbers in case of an emergency.

Field in the small number of scenes she gets does her best to hold her own, but it is impossible not to notice how much better she is in the small moments of quiet madness, such as when she dresses down Republican Leader Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) in front of a White House party, than when she falls to screeching.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

A small but growing number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by their classmates.

Science is our middle name British Science Week offers a number of ways for schools and colleges to get involved in a national science celebration, from small - scale activities held during a lesson to all - day events that involve not just the students, but parents and the rest of the community as well.

«For every one percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.»

«But it is only right that the small number of academies that are struggling to stretch their pupils are held to account to ensure all pupils fulfil their potential.

We have summarized the research on how well value - added measures hold up across years, subject areas, and student populations, but the evidence is based on a relatively small number of studies.