Sentences with phrase «than funds invested»

Finally, the Magellan promissory note lacked any value; it did not result in Midland recouping the funds used to pay Bokserman his commission because Magellan never had any assets other than the funds invested by Midland.

Historically, over long periods of time, money invested in riskier assets such as stocks has generally rewarded investors with higher returns than funds invested in ultra safe and liquid assets.

Historically, over long periods of time, money invested in riskier assets such as stocks has generally rewarded investors with higher returns than funds invested in ultra safe and liquid assets.

Not exact matches

Some fund managers are more talented than others; some are more nimble or invested in more fertile terrain.

There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.

Bogle has always adhered to the belief that one of the greatest determinants of investing success is keeping it simple — he has even criticized Vanguard Group on select occasions since retiring for launching more funds (both traditional index and ETF) than he thinks are necessary.

While dozens of hedge funds have sprung up this year to invest in the white - hot digital currency market, this one, known as Arrington XRP Capital, is the first to be denominated in a crypto - currency rather than dollars or euros.

Moreover, BlackRock's heavy focus on index funds, which have to stay invested in the stocks in a given index, gives it less sway over companies than activists willing to dump a stock if their demands aren't met.

Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in funding from investors such as New York City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.

For venture and private equity funds alike, it's easier than ever to raise money and harder than ever to actually invest it, thanks to increasingly steep competition.

Real enough, in fact, that it not only convinced high - profile funds including Formation 8 and Founders Fund to invest more than $ 90 million, it also just unveiled its first product: a spider silk tie made from genetically modified yeast fermented in tanks.

The goal of investing money is to grow those funds faster than fixed expenses like mortgage payments.

Had Social Security started investing in stocks in the early 1980s or late 1990s, she argues, the trust fund would be significantly more flush than it is now, even taking into account the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000 and the meltdown in 2008.

I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of «helpers» would leave their clients - again in aggregate - worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low - cost index fund,» he recapped, writing in Berkshire's annual shareholder letter.

The fund, called the Blackstone Core Equity Partners, will seek to invest in safer, larger companies for more than twice than the three - to - five - year holding period private equity firms usually have.

I still don't know what to do with the money I've earned, other than invest it, so external funding just doesn't seem important.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

For instance, women - run companies are far more likely to get funding through peer investing than through traditional funds.

For example, the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) are seed funds created by Congress to help transform government - funded research into businesses; these invest about $ 2.5 billion in grants, annually, in more than 6,000 companies.

Unlike VCs, angel investors normally invest their own money, rather than managing pooled funds.

Investing in women is smart business, says Kathryn Swintek, general partner and member of the Investment Committee of Golden Seeds Fund 2, part of New York - based angel network Golden Seeds, which comprises more than 275 investors, 80 percent of whom are women.

Plus, these funds are also much more inclined to invest in low - tech industries, multi-location service companies, franchise operators and Main Street manufacturing businesses than venture capital funds.

For the university, the dealmaking complements more than $ 20 billion it already has invested in everything from public stocks to venture capital funds to real estate.

It also recently launched a VR division with far greater aspirations and invested in the startup Magic Leap, which has raised more than $ 1.3 billion in funding.

The under the hood things we're investing in will ultimately be channeled toward driving better user experience, whether it's approving a new line of credit in less than 10 minutes or being able to fund invoices and have money in the bank within four hours.

Our own research reveals that less than 50 percent of Millennials have invested in an emergency fund.

But that total is dwarfed by the more than $ 1.5 trillion invested in intermediate - term portfolios (3.5 - to six - year average duration), which include core bond funds hewing to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate index.

Warren Buffett, a onetime hedge fund manager, has more investing disciples than just about anyone else, and few would complain he has steered them wrong over the years.

Last month it introduced a new cryptocurrency index fund, allowing people to invest in virtual coins such as Bitcoin through the fund, rather than buying them directly.

What's more, that funding round was likely a down round — when funding is raised at a valuation lower than the previous one — according to Fortune, further highlighting the cooling of the investing climate in the tech industry.

More than 100 hedge funds currently invest in Starbucks (sbux), but their stakes are so small that they add up to less than 3 % of the company.

More than $ 100 million had been invested in 22 separate companies since the fund launched in 2007.

The Oracle of Omaha said in his letter that the five funds Seides selected had invested their money in more than 100 hedge funds, which meant the results wouldn't be «distorted» by the performance of a single manager.

Buffett, who has ordered that most of the money he is not giving away at his death should be placed in an index fund, also said active investing as a whole was «certain» to produce worse than average results.

BuzzFeed has even captured more investment funding than Vox, with NBCUniversal (a key Vox investor) investing an additional $ 200 million, bringing its total backing to $ 400 million.

For example, Pimco's Dividend and Income Builder Fund has more than 90 % invested in equities.

Known for building tanks and nuclear submarines, General Dynamics has been focusing its funds on investing in R&D, repurchasing stock, and kicking back steady dividends to shareholders rather than shelling out on big acquisitions.

Investors are the winners: The average ETF in 2018 will charge less than 40 basis points ($ 4.00 per $ 1,000 invested), less than half the average mutual fund.

«Valeant epitomizes everything that went wrong with the marketplace,» Chanos said at the Evidence - Based Investing conference in New York on Tuesday, according to CNBC, adding that it was «the largest single security loss hedge funds have incurred, greater than Lehman, Enron, AIG.»

«With angel investors and venture capitalists, they generally accept that some investments are not going to do well, but they also know the ones that do very, very well will more than compensate,» says Janet Bannister, partner of Real Ventures, a Montreal - based venture fund that invests in early - stage businesses.

Sullivan uses only two computer - based services — automatic payroll and a «sweep» account that invests excess funds in an interest - bearing account at the end of each business day — and those services are better described as mid-tech than high - tech.

One of the most notable celebrity tech investors, Kutcher has invested in more than two dozen companies through his venture capital fund A-Grade Investments, including mattress maker Casper, and e-commerce company Fab.

If you follow this strategy, Betterment advises investing at least 30 percent more than the three to six months of expenses you would typically put in the emergency fund to hedge against market turmoil.

We've already invested the lion's share of our funds» original equity commitments to acquire about $ 1.8 billion of assets, based on unpaid principal balance, for less than $ 0.40 on the dollar.

Mint reported on 14 April that Flipkart Ltd has held funding talks with more than 15 investors over the past six months, all of whom have refused to invest in the company at its preferred valuation of $ 15 billion.

They are more sophisticated in their pricing models than, say, seed funds who are investing in products & teams more than financials.

My reasoning: Return would be lower than Dividend Investing above because index funds need to hold stocks yielding 1 and 2 % as well as those yielding > 3 %.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 13 private equity funds, which have invested more than $ 50 billion in over 720 companies in more than 35 countries.

If you invest the same amount in Vanguard funds, which offer expense ratios 82 % lower than the industry average, * there's a good chance that 20 - year total could be even higher.