Sentences with phrase «using factor funding»

Furniture invoice factoring solutions were developed using Factor Funding Co's knowledge and experience of the challenges facing companies in the furniture industry.

Not exact matches

But factors» bottom line use remains the same: providing ready funds for companies in cash - flow - challenged industries.

The portfolio management team uses a variety of investment strategies to search for companies suitable for investment in the fund, including factors such as growth in earnings, return on equity, and revenue.

Most smart beta products use factors, or characteristics defined by the fund manager, to attempt to outperform their benchmark.

Using factor data from Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), for the 10 years from 2007 through 2017, the value premium (the annual average difference in returns between value stocks and growth stocks) was -2.3 %.

In a nutshell, Wright finds that the two factors of yield curve inversion and the federal funds rate may be used together to better predict the likelihood of a recession occurring within a future twelve - month period.

This requires a consistently delivered, concise and linear marketing message that identifies the differential advantages across each of the evaluation factors investors use to select hedge funds.

Instead, it is using the risk adjustment factor to fund new policy initiatives.

The favorable growth rate that led to the funding is more likely a factor of selling the coin - sized TrackR medallions for key rings and other every - day carry items and use of the mobile app.

Passive managers use our index data, equity factor models and optimizer to construct their index funds and ETFs.

Investors should use this data as a starting point and combine it with some factors noted below for a more holistic approach to weeding out fund losers from the winners.

Using quarterly hedge fund SEC Form 13F filings and short interest data for a broad sample of U.S. stocks (excluding small and low - priced stocks), along with data required to compute stock return predictors and risk factors for these stocks, during 1990 through 2012, they find that: Keep Reading

Using monthly returns for 3,292 actively managed mutual funds focused on U.S. stocks and contemporaneous market, size, book - to - market and momentum factor returns during March 1993 to December 2014, they find that: Keep Reading

«This is because institutions such as the Future Fund can now use tools that assess an active stock picker not just against the benchmark, but against factors that are easily and cheaply replicable.

Using these fWHRs, monthly net - of - fee returns and assets under management of 3,868 associated live and dead hedge funds, and monthly risk factor values during January 1994 through December 2015, they find that:

«On - time payments are a huge aspect of having healthy credit,» says Joshua Eke, business development manager, Factor Funding Co. «Lenders will use this to determine whether or not you are a responsible borrower and evaluate your financial responsibility.»

When looking for the right growth fund, it's easy to just focus on the growth factors used to select growth stocks.

As cash values accumulate in the policy, you also have the option to use these funds to pay the premiums; however, this is still considered a loan and the same factors exist.

Quantitative investing assumes that future performance of a security relative to other securities may be predicted based on historical economic and financial factors, however, any errors in a model used might not be detected until the fund has sustained a loss or reduced performance related to such errors.

Janitorial factoring from Factor Funding Co will give your company the cash you can use to meet challenges to your company's competitive advantage, including:

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Though it has been reported that Spurs will not let the Argentine go in January, an offer of that size may force the Londoners into cutting their losses in the summer transfer window and the fact that they could use the money to fund a move for Real Madrid's Isco, is another factor worth considering.

DiNapoli said the fiscal stress monitoring system takes into account several factors such as short - term borrowing, use of fund balance, and operating deficits.

As state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli pointed out, recent state budgets have included «little or no detail regarding the process for allocating [SAM] funds, or the purposes for which such funds are to be used,» and «details on expenditures — purposes, recipients and other key factors — remain largely outside the State accounting system.»

Against the backdrop of continuing Boko Haram attacks in the North East states especially now through the soft target approach of using suicide bombers, a senior army officer has pin - pointed access to illegal funds as one of the major factors emboldening the terrorist group.

In the United Kingdom, «a major factor in the increase in both numbers and professionalization [of knowledge brokers] is the recent inclusion of «research impact» as a measure [used] to rank U.K. universities and determine funding, so investing in staff to promote research impact has become a priority,» Knight explains.

Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contributions.

Thus, the authors overemphasise the importance of funding by failing to stress that other factors, such as the size of the area surveyed, the number of vehicles used and even whether the ban was in force or not, were also statistically significant predictors of the number of elephant carcasses found.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director at the BHF, which part - funded the study, said: «By using the power of very large scale genetic studies, this research is the first to show that the known association between increased height and a lower risk of coronary heart disease is at least in part due to genetics, rather than purely down to nutrition or lifestyle factors.

Dr. Mahley, along with Gladstone Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, will use the funding to identify new chemical compounds that can target apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4)-- the strongest genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer's.

The Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are among the bodies calling for the use of the journal impact factor in funding, appointment and promotion decisions to be scFunding Council for England are among the bodies calling for the use of the journal impact factor in funding, appointment and promotion decisions to be scfunding, appointment and promotion decisions to be scrapped.

It says that the academic community should not use the impact factor of journals that publish research as a surrogate for quality in hiring, promotion or funding decisions.

Discussion will include the legal standards and relevant factors used by Courts; the practical role of other state agencies and access to outside funding sources.

«It's surprising that the court, which used its bully pulpit when it came to criticizing teacher protections, did not spend one second discussing funding inequities, school segregation, high poverty or any other out - of - school or in - school factors that are proven to affect student achievement and our children.

This report provides policy makers with information on state - funded pre-K programs» eligibility policies and the common risk factors used to prioritize enrollment.

As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.

Child Trends, Inc.; Washington D.C. $ 283,000 over two years to investigate children's access to highly - qualified ECE professionals and identify potential disparities in certain geographic areas, analyze the effects of recent state - level workforce policies and funding decisions on the ECE workforce in two states, and develop a forecasting tool that state leaders can use to estimate the potential cost / time factors required to implement ECE workforce development policies.

The DfE is proposing to use 11 of the 14 factors currently used in local funding formulae.

It will still be able to run a local formula using the same factors as now, to help it redistribute some funding like rates, PFI costs and pupil number growth where the need might be slightly different to the assumptions in the national formula.

And Cizek conceded that the incentives to cheat have increased with a decade of education policy that uses scores on narrow standardized tests as a factor in many school managerial decisions, such as school funding, and in some cases, teacher pay.

Insider Monkey downloaded LSV Value Equity Fund's returns from Yahoo to calculate their alpha by using Carhart's four factor model:

Deciding whether to invest directly in individual bonds or to use bond funds involves considering many factors, including the desire for simplicity or a predictable return.

The factors that come into play are: your State's taxes (you normally get a State tax break for using your State's plan), variety of investments available, as well as, fees associated with the account and the funds.

These funds evaluate and rank possible investments using quantitative research, analyzing factors such as price / earnings ratios, yield, volatility, and earnings growth.

Alternative indices aim to replicate strategies used by active fund managers by tilting portfolios towards particular systematic risk factors in markets.

«This is because institutions such as the Future Fund can now use tools that assess an active stock picker not just against the benchmark, but against factors that are easily and cheaply replicable.

So I think even if the ESG factors we use were arbitraged away, the Parnassus Funds would still have an edge.

Minimum investment amounts may, indeed, be a factor for those using our Fund Upgrading and Sector Rotation strategies.

It is possible that the material sector shorts in the Alpha Fund could lose money if macro factors drive that sector higher, but so far the stock selection and risk management used in the Alpha Fund have helped it avoid these issues.