Sentences with phrase «than the fund on»

It also returned about 8 % more than the fund on a cumulative basis and with a 59 % lower volatility.

Your intermediary may impose different or additional conditions than the fund on purchases, redemptions and exchanges of fund shares.

Not exact matches

The company has about 1,200 employees and has quietly taken on more than $ 200 million in venture funding.

The CTC halted funding for U.S. - targeted marketing in 2012 on the grounds that existing campaigns were ineffective, U.S. visitors to Canada spent less than overseas visitors and the Commission's limited funds were better allocated elsewhere.

In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

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.

Diamonte serves on the board for the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, representing more than 100 of the country's largest private - sector retirement funds on fiduciary and investment issues in Washington.

One seasoned private equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends less on the brand name of the fund family than on the specific people managing the fund.

One of his sayings I now pass on to every start - up we fund: that it's better, initially, to make a small number of users really love you than a large number kind of like you.

You don't have to be courting VCs to notice the change in mindset: According to Alicia Robb, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation who analyzed more than 25,000 Kickstarter projects, female crowdfunders on the site are more likely to get fully funded than men.

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.

No one on the West Coast has a shorter memory or less reluctance than entrepreneurs to do business with anyone with funds (a good entrepreneur would borrow cash from his grandmother) except maybe Hollywood producers who'd work with the devil if he had a hot concept.

Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

On the third floor of Fidelity Investments» Boston - based headquarters is a room that looks more like something you'd see at Apple or Google than at a 70 - year - old mutual fund firm.

Think long term, he advises: «If you don't get retirement fully funded, you're going to be on your kids» payroll for 15 or 20 years,» which could end up being more expensive in the long run than student loans would be.

Valeant's largest shareholder, billionaire and hedge funder John Paulson, has gained a seat on the drug maker's board, sending the beleaguered company's stock spiking more than 6 % in Monday trading (although it's still hovering at around the $ 13 mark).

Rather than charging 2 % of the fund's total capital commitment, Sequoia has told investors the management fee will be 1 % based only on the smaller stages of «called capital» drawn from the investors, one of the people said.

Rahn said that most of the founders he speaks with are focused on solving funding problems, rather than fixing the flaws within their companies.

This year, the sector is on track to raise $ 2 billion in funding, with average deal sizes higher than ever, suggesting companies, at least in more instances, are attracting the capital they need to not just innovate, but scale.

Flombaum and Enbar, who self - funded the operation up to this point and who say tuition alone can keep the school easily afloat, say they want to work first on perfecting the methods their more than a dozen instructors employ before expanding to other cities or to online courses.

Bloomberg attributes this boost to a recent surge in tech companies acquiring funding for the first time, indicating that investors are more willing than ever to take chances on startups.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

MetaStable's portfolio more than doubled in value in May alone, according to a source close to the fund; on June 23, after a Bitcoin and Ethereum price crash, the hedge fund reported total assets of $ 69 million in a regulatory filing.

Chris Gibson, executive director of the federally funded Oregon - Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, said the distinction matters less than the fact that marijuana continues to leave Oregon on planes, trains and automobiles, and through the mail.

Prosper, another online lender, has been looking to raise a new round of funding in exchange for equity at a price that would slash its market value by more than 70 %, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

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.

For more than a year, she had been pursuing her dream of starting a venture capital fund focused on female, minority, and LGBT entrepreneurs.

Bailing on it would surely cost Newfoundland more in lost trade opportunities than any federal fund could provide.

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At the stock's current levels, it would need to crash more than 50 % in order for the hedge fund investor to make any money on the bet.

The only female hedge fund manager to present at the Sohn Conference, Debra Fine suggested Canada - based content producer DHX Media (dhxm) was better positioned than Netflix to capitalize on television programing for kids, including its plans to bring back the 1990s hit, The Teletubbies.

«More often than not, it's the obvious questions people fall down on because they think them through superficially,» says Martin Soorjoo, founder of San Francisco - based Investor Pitch Clinic and author of Here's the Pitch: How to Pitch Your Business to Anyone, Get Funded, and Win Clients (Wiley, 2012).

But telephone fund - raising is high - stress work, so most employees are on the job less than full - time.

• Grail, a life sciences company focused on early cancer detection that operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), raised more than $ 900 million in Series B funding.

Private equity funds are basically «corporates on steroids» because they can't simply compete and perform the same way any other corporate would because corporates have a lower cost of capital and are able to accept lower returns than a PE firm.

To minimize the impact of fees on your own savings, choose index funds and ETFs over actively managed funds; if you plan to hire a financial adviser, calculate whether you'll save money by paying an hourly fee rather than an annual percentage of your assets.

This is especially important for female entrepreneurs, as women live on average five years longer than men and can have many more years in retirement to fund.

The funds, with more than $ 4 billion under management, can still make money on its drillco investment even after oil prices slipped below $ 45 per barrel this month on oversupply concerns.

The company rolled out more than a dozen funds over seven years, concentrating on Canadian, U.S. and global equities and bonds.

Also focusing on mobile is cloud company Lookout, which has more than $ 280 million in funding.

«Since the first edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was published in 1999, much has changed, and no one is more aware of this than mutual fund pioneer John Bogle.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

In other words, Canadian firms have a harder time raising funds than U.S. counterparts, even though it would, on average, make more of a positive difference for them.

«Aim to work with a partner who truly understands your goals and is interested in helping you accomplish them over the long run, rather than trying to sell you on funds you don't need or forcing you to pay unnecessary fees.

He also did not elaborate on why it would be faster and easier to find and fund worthy causes offline rather than via a crowdfunding platform that was designed to streamline those very activities.

On Monday, Lyft confirmed it had closed a $ 1 billion funding round at a $ 5.5 billion valuation, more than double its last valuation of $ 2.5 billion in March 2015.

Carried interest, which is a fund manager's profit, is taxed at the capital gains rate, rather than the higher rate on ordinary income.

Less than a year after their Indiegogo campaign, Whirlscape has also nabbed $ 500,000 in seed funding from BDC Venture Capital (a Canadian venture capital fund), a U.S. - based fund, and California's renowned Y Combinator incubator, which took Whirlscape on as a participant in its accelerator program earlier this year.

While most websites don't prohibit you from posting to more than one funding platform at a time, posting on multiple sites can hurt your campaign.

(Comedian John Oliver had some particularly harsh words for Oregon after it spent more than $ 250 million in federal funds on the website and related items).