Sentences with phrase «substantial funding at»

Norway and Germany are providing substantial funding at the moment, but the amounts available internationally are a small percentage of what is needed for a successful mechanism.

Also, an endowment plan will help you save more and get a substantial fund at the time of maturity.

Not exact matches

Add to that a substantial corporate reorganization at the top, which included both promoting some long - term Husky insiders, but also bringing on - board five new senior VPs with deep oilpatch experience (including John Myer, now Husky's senior vice-president of oilsands, from Suncor Energy, and Rob Symonds, Husky's senior vice-president of Western Canada productions, from Enerplus Resources Fund), and Ghosh was ready to focus on crafting the new Husky story.

Last week I noted that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I expected the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

US - based hedge fund Mt Kellett Capital Management is understood to be considering converting its debt into Lynas equity at about 10 cents per share, which would deliver it a substantial stake in the $ 190 million miner.

At the time of his hire in 2003, Mr. Drexler invested $ 10 million of his own funds to purchase a substantial equity interest in the Company and he received large equity grants in the form of stock options, premium - priced options and restricted stock, subject to four and five year vesting conditions.

They conferred substantial financial benefits on Retrophin's already highly - compensated founder at Retrophin's expense and provided no benefit to Retrophin other than a release of claims relating to actions that Shkreli undertook in his capacity as the manager of the MSMB Funds.

This budget makes a substantial investment in upgrading away from diesel: $ 220 million (over 11 years) for communities south of the 60th parallel and $ 21.4 million (over four years, starting next year) for continuing an existing northern program, and a portion of a new $ 75 million «challenge» fund aimed at solving clean tech problems through innovation.

At the time Mr. Drexler joined the Company in 2003, he invested $ 10 million of his own funds to purchase a substantial equity ownership interest in the Company.

MaRS Discovery District announced today that substantial funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation will be made available for the Centre for Impact Investing, to be housed at MaRS.

Using survivorship bias - free performance, sales channel and holding data for active U.S. domestic equity funds with at least five years of history and substantial holdings / assets during 1980 through 2014, they find that: Keep Reading

The alternative to a substantial bet on stocks at age 60 and up is a portfolio heavily in bonds or bond mutual funds, with only a modest amount of money in stocks.

These actions, along with the board's assertion of «substantial liquidity» just months before the collapse and a progressive dividend policy (apparently at the expense of employees» pension fund contributions), have prompted questions on whether oversight failures relate to coziness with management, or simply competence.

In practice, that means that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I would expect the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

«With the political race already drawing substantial media attention and potential candidates doing everything in their power to gain the support of the public at large, regulation of the hedge fund industry is a topic that will likely receive significant attention throughout the campaign period.»

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

At Harris, we believe that having substantial skin in the game fosters stewardship of the Funds — a responsibility we take very seriously.

Hanging on to substantial wealth can be justified only if you can accomplish at least as much good by hanging on to it as by giving the whole lot to a relief agency that would use it to fight hunger or to a scholarship fund for the underprivileged or to similar good causes.

The fund has a substantial western Victoria cropping aggregation a prized King Island aggregation for beef production and a farming aggregation at Darlington Point for irrigated cropping in NSW which includes the famed Tubbo Station and Huddersfield.

The tier one teams — ice hockey and basketball at Quinnipiac — get the most publicity, have the biggest market draw, and receive the most substantial funding, with descending levels of funding in tiers two and three.

Rarely does a day go by in the era of modern football when we don't hear of a substantial amount of money being offered for a top quality footballer, be it from the far - eastern Chinese Super League or the Abu Dhabi - funded coffers at Manchester City.

A longstanding plan to build an ice rink at the site of the former Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx will hit a critical deadline next month, when it must present a substantial chunk of funding in order to get a lease from the de Blasio administration to go forward.

The Erie County Department of Senior Services (herein referred to as «Seniors») has completed a review of the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint and concludes the following programs are to be cut or at risk of a loss of substantial funding:

Ossining for Fair Funding Communications Director Jessica Vecchiarelli said: «With significant enrollment growth and substantial increases in student needs, we are simply asking that Ossining be put on a path to being funded at the same percentage level as the average district in New York State, at least 80 % of the fully phased - in Foundation Aid.

The necessity of forcing Republican incumbants to expend resources long before they normally would, and already being at a substantial cash disadvantage in a majority of competitive races and also the RCCC trailing the DCCC in national fundraising, will cause many campaigns to run out of money at the end of the race of expend more energy in fund raising instead of vote getting.

Another substantial piece of evidence Mr. Melo offered was the drafts of the cooperation agreement that passed between the physician's attorney and the prosecution, in which Mr. Taub testified against Mr. Silver, but in which his lawyer struck out language stating that the doctor directed patients to Weitz & Luxenburg «in exchange for» funding and «at Silver's request.»

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

The BBSRC - funded ARK - Genomics facility — which is part of Edinburgh Genomics at the University of Edinburgh — provided a substantial body of sequence data, including information on which genes are expressed in a spectrum of 40 different tissues.

In this month's Scientific American, the editors look at seven unlikely energy technology solutions that have received substantial government or private funding, which, if successful, could significantly improve energy security and efficiency.

From an epidemiologic perspective, preeclampsia is growing at a rate more rapid than diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease — diseases for which substantial research and treatment funding have been allocated,» explained senior investigator Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

At the dinner, Parker also received the organization's highest honor for lay individuals, the Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research, for his outspoken endorsement of cancer immunotherapy and substantial financial support of the Cancer Immunology Translational Research Dream Team that is jointly funded by CRI and Stand Up To Cancer, an organization to which Parker has strong ties.

Around 1990, the Administration for Children and Families decided it would commit substantial funds to hold a biennial conference promoting research for the Head Start Program, and it recruited as organizers John Fantuzzo, professor of human relations at University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education; Catherine Tamis - LeMonda, a professor of applied psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School; and Faith Lamb - Parker, an assistant clinical professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia.

«This project is one example of the serious research taking place at the Texas Schools Project that commanded substantial funding,» Andrews said.

Investing $ 2.8 billion would ensure that every district has at least 80 % of the funding they need to support students, a substantial step in the right direction for Illinois» neediest districts.

Unlike most federal elementary and secondary education programs, most Title I funds are allocated to individual schools, although LEAs retain substantial discretion to control the use of a share of Title I grants at a central district level.

The one thing I like best is the stated goal of «a fresh look at school funding and to ensure [ing] that candidates for elected office address school finance in real and substantial terms in their campaigns this fall.»

The tolled highway is comprised of three sections: (i) Triangle Expressway extends from NC 147 at I - 40 south 3.4 miles and reached substantial completion in December 2011; (ii) Northern Wake Expressway (NC 540), a 2.8 - mile segment, which opened to traffic in 2007 and was constructed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation with Surface Transportation Funds; and (iii) Western Wake Freeway, which connects with Northern Wake Expressway, covers a distance of 12.6 miles, and reached substantial completion in late 2012.

With an average weight of 10.3 %, the equivalent short - term investment position in the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY) was substantial, which indicates that at times the fund may have engaged in market timing typical of value investments.

As our sesquicentennial approaches, we have set aside substantial funds for the celebrations, both on a national scale and at the community level.

Both AULTX and EU have less than $ 10M AUM, but SEEAX is fairly substantial AUM at $ 170M, which is simply hard to believe... For those interested, I've posted results of this thread in an Excel file Funds That Beat The Market - Nov 12.

The fund produced a substantial amount of positive RealAlpha ™ but at the expense of an elevated RealBeta ™.

A majority of the TAVF common stock investments are in companies acquired at substantial discounts from Fund management's estimates of net asset value (NAV), where Fund management believes that prospects are good that NAV will be steadily increased over the long term.

The Fund buys at the time the near - term outlook is poor provided the company is well capitalized, if our analysis indicates that the common shares are available at a low price earnings ratio relative to long - term future earning power and / or are selling at a substantial discount from an adjusted, and measurable, net asset value.

Using survivorship bias - free performance, sales channel and holding data for active U.S. domestic equity funds with at least five years of history and substantial holdings / assets during 1980 through 2014, they find that: Keep Reading

These funds are also liquid and available, despite the substantial risk of loss of principal at any given time.»

Turning to the U.S., a study by Coval and Moscowitz found that mutual fund managers «earn substantial abnormal returns in nearby investments,» suggesting that «investors trade local securities at an informational advantage.»

Benjamin Graham was the inspiration for a $ 50 billion legacy — his most ardent and famous disciple, Warren Buffett, put Graham's principles to work at age 25 when he cobbled together a fund subscribed by friends and relatives, and which later turned into a substantial partnership known as Berkshire Hathaway.

The superb Above Average Odds Investing blog has a guest post from Ben Rosenzweig, an analyst at Privet Fund Management, titled The GSI Group (LASR.PK)-- Another Low - Risk, High - Return Post Reorg Equity w / Substantial Near - Term Catalyst (s), which really says it all.

The substantial front - load makes the fund less attractive: the five - year annualized return at the MOP was about 1 % lower than that at NAV.

If you don't have an emergency fund you are going to get stuck with a substantial tax bill 10 % penalty plus taxes at your marginal rate.