Sentences with phrase «years the fund large»

Over the past four years the fund large long - term capital gain distributions.

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My dad worked for 35 years at Stelco in Hamilton, before watching a once great company dragged into bankruptcy, in large part because of a pension plan it could no longer fund.

Two of the state's largest investment funds have had reported strong returns on investment for the 2012 - 13 financial year.

And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.

Approximately 60 percent of U.S. actively managed large - cap funds are beating their benchmarks for the year to date, the best performance through April for any year since at least 2009, according to research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Financed primarily by large mutual and hedge funds, the exchange opened for business last year.

The firm has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity deals since 2014, but had not raised a large fund of pooled capital for deals until this year.

Harvard also received a $ 150 million donation from hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin to support financial aid in what was the fifth largest charitable donation this year.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

Commodity hedge funds have dwindled in recent years as oil prices slumped, leaving only a handful of larger players, including Hall, who ran the Astenbeck Capital Management fund until deciding to close it following losses this year.

What started as a niche concept just a few years ago has become a large - scale and viable way for people to invest directly in promising ideas, which creates a new pool of funding while allowing small investors to reap the financial rewards of contributing to successful ventures.

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.

The life - savers are pension funds, whose demand for long - term fixed income assets could reach record levels this year - and, counterintuitively, it's the surge in world equity markets that will play a large part in fuelling this appetite.

Lundquist: Superior Plus Income Fund has been a large position [in our portfolio] for many years.

Maybe it's because the industry itself has changed a bit over the past few years, with some larger firms even proposing long - dated funds that, in many ways, are modeled on Berkshire Hathaway.

«Change in large organizations, particularly ones that are profit maximizers... doesn't come until people have exhausted all other options,» Coady said in a 2003 speech, 10 years after the Clayoquot confrontation (and while she was working at the World Wildlife Fund).

Every year, admissions officials from top MBA programs across the country gather in a St. Louis hotel to dole out millions in funds from the single largest MBA scholarship fund in the world.

The largest fixed income fund, the $ 26.9 billion Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, has gained 1.3 percent year to date, outperforming the S&P 500, which has dropped 3.1 percent in 2015.

Wiseman said all of CPPIB's investment teams made material contributions last year, producing CPPIB's largest level of annual investment income since inception, but noted the Canada Pension Plan isn't expected to need to draw money from the fund until at least 2023 and, even then, at a relatively small amount for several years.

Online building supply marketplace BuildDirect has pulled off the venture capital equivalent of Irish twins, staging two large funding rounds in the same calendar year.

Pershing Square hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, now Valeant's largest shareholder (and a self - proclaimed value investor himself), said he thought the stock was undervalued when he bought into it early last year when it was trading around 14 times estimated earnings.

SoftBank expects to invest over the next five years at least $ 25 billion in the $ 100 billion tech fund, which would be one of the world's largest private equity investors and a potential kingpin in the technology industry.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

The 30 - year - old fund overtook Pimco's Total Return last year as the fund world's largest bond portfolio.

When Chris Moran took over the internal venture fund of Lockheed Martin in June 2016, the nation's largest defense contractor had already been investing in start - up technology companies for nine years.

A trio of hedge fund managers have secretly directed one of the largest pools of philanthropic capital for years, undetected by design.

Nektar is the largest holding in Oppenheimer's Global Opportunities Fund, which is up 26 percent this year.

Fund manager investments in Amazon.com Inc and Netflix Inc, both of which are up more than 35 percent for the year to date, helped boost the returns of large - cap funds, noted Savita Subramanian, equity and quant strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Elliott Management, the hedge fund that Singer launched 40 years ago and still leads today, was then a large investor in Samsung's construction division.

GBTC is up more than 2,300 percent this year and is the largest holding of the top - performing ARK Innovation Exchange - Traded Fund (ARKK) at nearly 10.5 percent as of Monday.

To focus on dividend payers that are better positioned to weather a downturn, go with SPDR S&P Dividend (sdy): It's an exchange - traded fund that invests only in large companies healthy enough to have boosted payouts for at least 20 consecutive years, including warhorses like AT&T (t) and Chevron (cvx).

A number of large hedge funds were also significant holders of Valeant as recently as the middle of the year.

A large VC fund sees literally thousands of potential deals every year and only invests in a small handful.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

Pimco, one of the world's largest bond fund managers, and widely followed Guggenheim Partners are among the investors who say benchmark 10 - year Treasuries yielding 3 percent - now within reach - are too hard to resist.

Dupont's approach won him a Lipper Fund Award this year and helped his Fidelity Large Cap fund secure a five - star Morningstar rating and a 12.7 % 10 - year annualized retFund Award this year and helped his Fidelity Large Cap fund secure a five - star Morningstar rating and a 12.7 % 10 - year annualized retfund secure a five - star Morningstar rating and a 12.7 % 10 - year annualized return.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Last year the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund bought one of Spain's largest funeral businesses from 3i Group, a British private - equity firm, for # 117m, and increased its stake in a French equivalent.

And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

According to figures that the National Venture Capital Association diligently collects through primary research and publishes on their Web site, last year was somewhat typical in that 1,334 start - ups got funded, but only 13 % as many achieved an IPO (81 last year) or an acquisition large enough to warrant a public disclosure of the price (95 last year).

For most investors it probably doesn't make sense to invest any further out than intermediate bonds or bond funds (10 year maximum maturity) to lower the risk of large losses.

Meanwhile, Greece, the third - largest weighting in the fund, has officially recovered after six years of recession.

Since 2009, Sullivan has led one of the world's largest corporate funders and a vast employee volunteer operation that contributed some 2 million hours of service in a recent year.

Investors solely focusing on large - cap health care stocks and exchange - traded funds this year are likely disappointed.

The turnover in ETFs is insane, to the tune of an annualized 864 % for the largest 100 funds (the largest 100 stocks in the market turnover just 117 % a year).

In recent years, money has flooded into low - cost index funds and out of more expensive actively managed funds, thanks in part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long term.

The iShares Transportation Average ETF (CBOE: IYT), the largest exchange - traded fund dedicated to transportation stocks, is lower by almost 3 percent this year, but some analysts believe the sector can rebound.

Grail, a year - old, Menlo Park, Ca. - based early cancer screening startup that spun out of the DNA - sequencing giant Illumina is reportedly looking to raise up to $ 1.7 billion in fresh funding to launch a large - scale clinical trial.

Earlier this month, Paplikar had written a blog detailing how a «large investment fund» had last year revoked its funding offer after signing the term sheet with BHIVE.