Sentences with phrase «structures of well funded»

An American - centric installation by the Leicester artist calls to mind the temporary structures of well funded aid - centres or military encampments, made ridiculous with a giant plastic cactus lamp.

Not exact matches

But other research suggests that the structure of index funds is a trouble for the stock market as well.

Dual - class structures can be a good thing for investors if they're set up properly, says Som Seif, founder and CEO of Purpose Investments Inc., a fund manager with more than $ 1 billion in assets under management.

Having their votes no longer in the mix could prove to be one of the best uses of funds in the acquisition deal structure, because it's an easy way to close out their positions (which includes all their comments, questions and opinions on everything pertaining to running the company).

In the end, it's all the same game: Accumulating good assets that are structured intelligently and throw off fresh funds for you to spend, reinvest, save, gift, or donate, empowering you to arrange your day doing what it is you enjoy, and spending time with the people you love, rather than selling more hours of your life.

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.

You'll learn how to: • Set up a viable business structure and write a winning business plan that promotes growth and gets you funded • Decide which lawn care services to offer • Determine who and where your best customers are and how to market to them • Calculate the cost of doing business and managing your finances • Select the right lawn maintenance equipment, vehicles, and supplies • Hire employees as your business grows

Blake counsels asset managers and broker - dealers on all aspects of the development and distribution of alternative investment products, including registered investment companies, business development companies, and other permanent or long - term capital structures, as well as hedge funds and private equity funds.

In summary, because of the «use the capital once and return it» structure, high up - front losses and tax exempt investors, the best fund structure for an institutionally backed venture fund has traditionally been a limited partnership.

(May 2013) Determining the likely funding requirements of an early stage company can help ensure that a deal is structured properly and that the projected company valuation has a good chance of being attractive to next stage funders.

(Mar. 2010) Determining the likely funding requirements of an early stage company can help ensure that a deal is structured properly and that the projected company valuation has a good chance of being attractive to next stage funders.

(Feb. 2014) Determining the likely funding requirements of an early stage company can help ensure that a deal is structured properly and that the projected company valuation has a good chance of being attractive to next stage funders.

(Dec. 2011) Determining the likely funding requirements of an early stage company can help ensure that a deal is structured properly and that the projected company valuation has a good chance of being attractive to next stage funders.

This was exasperated recently when I was discussing the case of how most investors misunderstand how it can actually be good over the long - run to change a company's capitalization structure to replace equity with debt by borrowing funds on a long - term, low - cost, fixed - rate basis to repurchase stock, lowering the total count of outstanding shares.

Consequently, most investment funds frown upon such structures, at best tolerate them, and, at worst, have adopted policies of non-investment in these companies.

Following this rapid growth period, we anticipate that GFI will slow their expansion over the next year.9 They are planning to increase their fundraising capability primarily through strengthening their relationships with existing donors as well as identifying new potential groups of donors.10 They hope this will allow them to maintain sustained growth beyond the startup phase.11 Given additional funding, we do think that GFI is structured in such a way that they could continue to expand their organizational capacity across all departments; however, we think that it's possible they will continue to encounter some hiring issues (although not to the same extent as those seen in 2017).

I agree that Wenger wouldn't have seen all of the money from the player sales, and it would also depend on how the sale is structured, and in turn, what funds are then immediately released, but surely SOME money is better NONE?

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

On the side favoring a convention was a mostly underfunded collection of activists for good government and reform, who had hoped a convention would stir needed changes to the structure of state government and the funding of political campaigns.

«We don't need a large number of organizations, but quality, well - resourced, well - funded, well - trained organizations, and it just speaks to how our society is structured.

Like the unfair property tax structure that burdens Staten Island homeowners more than elsewhere, as well as the lack of city funding for the Island's private hospitals in lieu of a city - run hospital.

- The U.S. National Science Foundation funds a range of relevant biological science areas, including biomolecular dynamics, structure, and function, as well as cellular processes

The New York Civil Liberties Union has focused its concerns specifically on the LMSI, taking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-- the program's main source of funding — to court to obtain information on, among other things, the location of cameras and license plate readers, the type of equipment being used, the timeline for implementing the security initiative as well as a list of buildings and other structures to be protected.

Through an analysis of the financial structure of the organizations that constitute the core of the countermovement and their sources of monetary support, Brulle found that, while the largest and most consistent funders behind the countermovement are a number of well - known conservative foundations, the majority of donations are «dark money,» or concealed funding.

For the main conference on September 25 and 26, the event will be structured around 3 plenary sessions, introduced by keynote speakers: Session 1: The Funder, Developer and Regulator as Partners in Innovation Session 2: Novel approaches in clinical development Session 3: Developing more predictive preclinical tools to better reach proof of concept

Among the latter are a treasured colleague (William Fichtner) who helps her transmit and receive radio signals and whose name, Kent Clark, irrelevantly suggests an inverted Superman; a bad father (read: villain) and former mentor (Tom Skerritt) who briefly becomes her boss, then her competitor, and who kowtows shamelessly to the power structure; a religious scholar named Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) who gives her a Cracker Jack compass, virtually repeats her father's tag line («If there wasn't anyone else out there [in the cosmos], it'd be an awful waste of space»), and goes to bed with her; and an eccentric billionaire (John Hurt) who lives on a well - appointed plane (recalling Jules Verne's Captain Nemo) and comes up with the funding.

In the panel conversation, the lack of good networks, better use of the emerging edtech incubators, the structure of federal research funding, the lag - time between learning and tangible results, and other things surfaced as additional facets of the problem.

One of the unique aspects of the TSM, which sets us apart from others who have begun to articulate similar innovation agendas, is our structured approach to providing technical assistance and ongoing support for projects that receive FOI funding, as well as for those whose work with us is funded by other sources.

To better understand this, we need to look at the structure of public education funding.

Well, this subtle distinction between a private school and an independent school has to do with the legal structure of each, how they are governed, and how they are funded.

: The worst student to teacher ratios in the country; near the worst per pupil funding in the US; low starting salary schedules that shortchange new teachers so the oldest teachers can be overpaid, though all do the same work; LIFO policies so that younger teachers are always fired first no matter how good they are and no matter how poor senior teachers are; teacher layoffs expected at every recession, with waves of recessions expected indefinitely; bad funding in the absence of recessions and worse funding in recessions; constant loading with additional requirements and expectations; poor and worsening teacher morale; poor and worsening working conditions; ugly architecturally uninspired facilities and often trashy temporary classrooms; inadequate learning materials, resources and technology; inadequate administrative support with the worst student / administrator ratios in the county; inadequate librarian, psychologist, behavioral specialist, counselor, nurse support due to the worst ratios; inadequate student discipline structures; and much more...

While the Legislature continues to be woefully behind on providing funding to keep up with rising costs across the last decade, HB7055, in a sudden show of largesse, will alter the PECO funding structure so that well over 3,000 traditional schools must split $ 50 million dollars while 650 charter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled this way?).

«But when you look at the big picture of how our education system is set up, it's not structured to take those funding increases and turn them into better results for students.»

Funded through a three - year $ 10.9 million Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the initiative is based on NISL's years of research on the leadership development strategies and structures in the world's best education systems and organizations.

Emma Knights, pictured, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Executive headships are well - paid posts and we must not risk building into staffing structures duplication or other inefficiencies when schools are so short of funds.»

While its true the voucher schools (private, parochial or charter) operate under different rules they also work under a drastically different funding structure (40 % of the Public School per capita) to offset the claims of» skimming the good ones».

These specialized schools are often called «internal charters» because of their relationship to the district, as well as their funding structure.

We also need clearer evidence on the best size of MATs, to know more about the best structure for MATs, and to know about the leadership, the organisation and the funding.

Shifting away from the federally funded Headstart program, the new preschool class is a more structured setting with a greater emphasis on classroom skills such as working in groups and speaking in front of a classroom as well as developing basic reading skills.

The report must include a recommendation as to which governance structure best serves the objectives of TIFIA - continuing the program under the authority of the Secretary, establishing a government corporation or a government - sponsored enterprise (GSE) to administer the program, or phasing out the program and relying on the capital markets to fund the types of infrastructure investments assisted by TIFIA without Federal participation.

Each TIFIA Report to Congress must recommend the governance structure that best serves the objectives of TIFIA by either (i) continuing the program under the authority of the Secretary, (ii) establishing a government corporation or a GSE to administer the program, or (iii) phasing out the program and relying on the capital markets to fund the types of infrastructure investments assisted by TIFIA without Federal participation.

The good fund manager takes account of his implicit liability structure.

There is a kind of paradigm a la Thomas Kuhn here, (Structure of Scientific Revolutions) where the dominant paradigm is well - supported economically, and self - interested, but it is false, and being attacked by poorly - funded nobodies who only have the truth on their side.

Randall also previously worked at an exchange traded fund manager managing fixed income, structured index and money market portfolios as well as being part of the team that introduced innovative products to the Canadian marketplace, including the country's first fixed income exchange - traded funds.

All - Star Funds typically have at least a three year track record and compare favorably against their peers based on historical return, risk, expenses, manager tenure, performance and style consistency, asset size and growth and must be 1) structured through sound investment philosophy and process, 2) implemented with acceptable level of investment risk management strategy and 3) supported by a well - balanced investment firm.

The fund also deviates from standard private - equity practice in not charging commissions and fees on acquisitions and add - on purchases, or for monitoring investments, in the hope of ditching the complexities in fee structure and better aligning with investor interests, the person said.

Canada has many great accomplishments to be proud of in the investment world, including claiming some of the most innovative and well - structured pension funds in the world, to the creation of the world's first exchange - traded fund.

Active managers with true skill (in excess of their fee structure) are hard to identify, so investors are better off with an index fund

Well over 90 % of exchange - traded funds, popularly known as ETFs are based on passive market indexes, but there are a few active managers who have decided to use the ETF structure for actively managed portfolios.

All - Star Funds typically have at least a three year track record and compare favorably against their peers based on historical return, risk, expenses, manager tenure, performance and style consistency, asset size and growth and must be 1) structured through sound investment philosophy and process, 2) implemented with acceptable level of investment risk management strategy and 3) supported by a well - balanced investment firm.