Sentences with phrase «to fund research»

His Azrieli Foundation focuses on Holocaust education and Jewish cultural preservation, and has also begun funding research into neurodevelopmental disorders and health care in general.

By the end of 2017, Wintemute, who is 65 and who has no plans of retiring soon, will have self - funded his research program to the tune of $ 2.1 million.

This third facility will be near the University of Michigan, where it will fund research in artificial intelligence, robotics, and materials science.

As for that leverage: you can rest assured that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has long been funding research efforts to replace the rare - earth metals with other materials.

According to Credit Suisse, CTA funds — which concentrate on futures — were down 2.8 % in 2017 through the end of July, while Hedge Fund Research's commodity hedge fund index was down 0.9 % through the end of July.

In August, it raised $ 120 million from investors including Bill Gates to fund research like the kind being done with LCA, which Bosley told Forbes would be enough to keep the company running for at least three years.

In 2017, the average return is 2,908 %, according to Hedge Fund Research, compared with a 9 % gain for hedge funds over the same period.

Many small businesses may be unaware they already have access to a major tax incentive to fund research, in addition to the federal government's new innovation package.

Over the years he has been awarded millions of dollars for funded research related to both virtual reality and augmented reality.

Eric Larcheveque, Ledger's chief executive, said the investment would be used to fund research and development and expanding his firm's operations around the world.

Eric Larcheveque, Ledger's chief executive, said the investment would be used to fund research and development and expanding operations around the world.

One example could be more active involvement in funding research and awareness about the disease; another might include offering paid leave or compensation for employees who participate in Alzheimer's clinical trials.

Todd Rosenbluth, CFRA senior director of ETF and mutual fund research, talks about ETFs with exposure to social media giants after Facebook's data harvesting scandal.

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.

But while EuroFX was promising stellar returns, hedge funds in foreign currencies were booking annual losses of 1 - 2 % on average, according to data tracker Hedge Fund Research.

InVivo paid for a year of Pritchard's graduate fellowship and funds his research in Langer's lab; in exchange, Pritchard brings to InVivo insights gleaned from some of the smartest scientists working in biomaterials anywhere.

This government cash helps companies fund the research for their next blockbuster drug as well as the expenses required to operate a growing healthcare company.

The DOD - funded research will target the use of Sprint specifically for amputees suffering from moderate to severe neuropathic pain — chronic pain typically caused by nerve damage.

Government - funded research has led to lifesaving interventions to prevent other injuries.

The deal will put 58 million Australian dollars into fighting the starfish, with the rest going to improving water quality, funding research into reef restoration, and monitoring damage to the reef.

Investors pulled $ 15.1 billion out of hedge funds in the first quarter, the industry's biggest withdrawal since the recession in 2009, according to Hedge Fund Research.

This means America must fund research that helps coffee producers and other farmers adapt to the climate changes underway and address new pests and diseases.

While the outperformance will reward investors who have remained in actively - managed funds, it may not be enough to stem the tide of dollars flowing into low - cost passive funds, said Todd Rosenbluth, director of mutual fund research at New York - based CFRA.

First, there is the Waterloo way: funding research through the university and using that as the fertile ground to cultivate a healthy startup ecosystem.

Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

According to a report by CB Insights, a tech - funding research firm, Google and Goldman Sachs are among the most active corporate investors.

It does not look like the U.S. government is prepared to step in and fund research in Corporate America's absence.

That's more than twice as many hedge funds as operated five years ago, according to Chicago - based Hedge Fund Research.

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index is a global, equal - weighted index of over 2,000 single - manager funds that report to the HFR (Hedge Fund Research) database.

«It's justifiable to spend more if there are no alternatives in the space and if the trend makes sense,» said Todd Rosenbluth, S&P Capital IQ's director of ETF and mutual fund research.

The company also said it would fund research of a tool that scans content and flags images, audio and video.

The San Francisco company said the initial investment will fund research on vaping and the formation of an expert panel to combat underage use of Juul.

Derwent Capital, which finished its first month of trading at the end of July, beat the S&P 500 which fell 2.2 % in July, while the average hedge fund made 0.76 %, according to Hedge Fund Research.

With 80 per cent of Nova Scotia's publicly funded research, and as one of Canada's leading universities for industry collaboration, we're helping generate the talent, discoveries and innovations that will shape Atlantic Canada's future.

Our Robo - Analyst technology has identified a particularly attractive mutual fund that traditional, backward - looking fund research overlooks.

I've already discussed why investors need independent fund research.

Unfortunately, most fund research does not analyze the holdings of a fund, even though the performance of holdings equals the performance of a fund.

In the process, we uncovered an attractive ETF that traditional, backward - looking fund research overlooks.

The HFRI Global Hedge Fund Index is designed to be representative of the overall composition of the hedge - fund universe reporting to Hedge Fund Research Inc. database.

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Hook editor Monte Paulsen was first to report the involvement of Tory MPs with the RCMP funded research to slam the Insite clinic.

Later in the session another odd moment came when he was being asked about his relationship with Saint Petersburg University in Russia — where he confirmed he had given talks and workshops, after traveling to the country with friends and proactively getting in touch with the university «to say hi» — and specifically about some Russian government - funded research being conducted by researchers there into cyberbullying.

The committee, organized by the Social Science Research Council, will then announce a call for papers and issue grants to fund the research.

The IRRC Institute ensures the availability of its funded research through the sponsorship of the Social Science Research Network's Corporate Governance Network that serves as an online repository for thousands of research papers and abstracts.

This analysis allows us to find funds that investors using traditional fund research may overlook, such as the Insurance Select Sector SPDR (KIE).

This diligence gives us a superior level of insight to traditional fund research, which is reflected in our results.

Based on Agecroft Partners» hedge fund research process which considers thousands of hedge funds each year based on multiple evaluation criteria, 85 % to 90 % of hedge funds are not very good.

A recent report from Hedge Fund Research shows that approximately 69 % of hedge fund assets are controlled by firms with over $ 5 billion in assets under management and 91 % are controlled by those with more than $ 1 billion in assets.

In the process, we uncovered a particularly attractive ETF that backward - looking fund research is likely to overlook.