In 2010, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, received Institutional Investor magazine's 8th Annual Hedge Fund Industry award for Large Fund of Hedge Funds of the Year.

NBK Capital focuses on four principal lines of business: Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Brokerage & Research and Investment Banking.

* Alternative investment, investment other than stocks, bond ( finance ), money funds, and cash

Under the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive, offshore hedge funds using prime brokers as depositaries will be required to use EU-registered credit institutions before they can be sold in the EU.

A policy forum in Science stated, We believe that NCCAM Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine funds proposals of dubious merit ; its research agenda is shaped more by politics than by science ; and it is structured by its charter in a manner that precludes an independent review of its performance.

In certain circumstances where a 529 account has experienced investment losses over the term of its existence, the contributor to the account may withdraw the funds and have the losses deducted from taxable income ( but not counted as such for Alternative Minimum Tax purposes ).

Center for Alternative Investments: The Emory Center for Alternative Investments focuses on developing research and information, providing education and building community with respect to several areas of alternative investments including private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, and real estate.

Malthouse is also a director of Alpha Strategic PLC, a fund of hedge funds listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Alternative investments can include hedge funds, private equity, real assets, commodities, and structured products.

In 1974, together with Nicholas Albery of BIT Information Service, Peace News began publishing the Community Levy for Alternative Projects, an invitation to supply funds for, generally, fledgling alternative projects, partly targeting shops and businesses that identified with counter-cultural ideas and aspirations.

The EU's Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers ( AIFMD ) was passed by the EU Parliament on November 11, 2010 and is the first EU directive focused on " alternative investment fund managers ", including hedge fund managers.

He is president of Alternative Investment Analytics, LLC, which he established in 2005, as a consultancy in the fields of multi-advisor hedge fund creation and asset allocation.

That year, the company was termed the largest hedge fund in the U. S. and it received the Alternative Investment News 7th Annual Hedge Fund Industry's Lifetime Achievement award and PlanSponsor's Hedge Fund Manager of the year award.

He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a member of the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center Advisory Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United States Defense Policy Board, the American Alternative Foundation, and the United States National Security Advisory Group.

He held several senior positions at Goldman, including co-head of the firm's Wealth Management business, and head of Alternative Investment strategies.

The original configuration for the expanded school was two programs with the senior high named the Alternative Community High School ( ACHS ).

Alternative rock encompasses a diverse set of styles — including gothic rock and grunge, among others — unified by their debt to punk rock and their origins outside of the musical mainstream.

Alternative bands were linked by their collective debt to punk rock, through hardcore, New Wave or the post-punk movements.

It is working to meet its Alternative Energy Initiative, which includes " using 100 percent green electrical energy in all of its municipal buildings, parks, utilities, and 3, 000 streetlights and traffic signals ; providing electric vehicle charging stations to visitors and employees at its city hall and library campus ; and initiating conversion of its municipal fleet to energy efficient vehicles powered by electricity, hybrid technology, and 80 / 20 biofuel.

Alternative over-water vehicles such as wave-piercing catamarans ( marketed as the SeaCat in the UK until 2005 ) use less fuel and can perform most of the hovercraft's marine tasks.

Washington Alternative Energy Days, a two-day gathering of alternative energy alternative vehicles.

* Alternative motor vehicle credit: several credits are available for purchase of varying types of non-gasoline powered vehicles.

1380, the New Alternative Transportation to Give America Solutions ( NAT GAS ) Act of 2011, legislation designed to decrease U. S. dependence on foreign oil by encouraging more natural gas powered vehicles on American roads.

" Globalization, charisma, innovation, and tradition: An exploration of the transformations in the organisational vehicles for the transmission of the teachings of Prem Rawat ( Maharaji )" in Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies-Volume 2, 2006, ISBN 1-4196-2696-5, pp. 44 – 62.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

Alternative names for this breed include Belgian Blue-White ; Belgian White and Blue Pied ; Belgian White Blue ; Blue ; and Blue Belgian.

Alternative notations include C ( n, k ), < sub > n </ sub > C < sub > k </ sub >, < sup > n </ sup > C < sub > k </ sub >, C < sup > k </ sup >< sub style =" position: relative ; left :-. 5em ;"> n </ sub >, C < sup > n </ sup >< sub style =" position: relative ; left :-. 5em ;"> k </ sub >, in all of which the C stands for combinations or choices.

; Alternative publications

The West Berlin state branch of The Greens used to be called Alternative Liste, or precisely, Alternative Liste für Demokratie und Umweltschutz ( AL ; alternative list for democracy and environmental protection ).

New performance measures have been introduced that attempt to address some of theoretical concerns with traditional indicators, including: modified Sharpe ratios ; the Omega ratio introduced by Keating and Shadwick in 2002 ; Alternative Investments Risk Adjusted Performance ( AIRAP ) published by Sharma in 2004 ; and Kappa developed by Kaplan and Knowles in 2004.

Alternative measures of kurtosis are: the L-kurtosis, which is a scaled version of the fourth L-moment ; measures based on 4 population or sample quantiles.

Alternative rock grew out of the grunge scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is particularly favored by college radio and adult album alternative stations ; there is a strong focus on songwriters and bands with an outsider sound or a more sophisticated sound than the " three chord wonder " cliché.

The Australian Student Movement From Its Origins To The 1970s, Melbourne ; Socialist Alternative, 2001.

* Gender-neutral language ; See Satiric misspelling ( Alternative political spelling ) for a Spanish-language example.

The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classifies CAM therapies into five categories or domains, including: alternative medical systems, or complete systems of therapy and practice ; mind-body interventions, or techniques designed to facilitate the mind's effect on bodily functions and symptoms ; biologically based systems including herbalism ; and manipulative and body-based methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy.

" The Alehouse and the Alternative Society ", in: Puritans and Revolutionaries: essays in seventeenth-century history presented to Christopher Hill ; ed.

In Australia-where it is used to elect members of, among other institutions, its lower house-it is called Preferential voting ; in the United Kingdom and Ireland-where it is used to elect the president-it is known as the Alternative Vote, or AV.

Alternative tabloids can be positioned as upmarket ( quality ) newspapers, to appeal to the better-educated, higher-income sector of the market ; as middle-market ( popular ); or as downmarket ( sensational ) newspapers, which emphasize sensational crime stories and celebrity gossip.

Water-powered funiculars include the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway in North Devon, England ; the CAT Funicular at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Gwynedd, Wales ; the Nerobergbahn in Wiesbaden, Germany ; and Bom Jesus funicular in Braga, Portugal ( the oldest, still working, in the world ).

The IFC established IFC Asset Management Company LLC ( IFC AMC ) in 2009 as a wholly owned subsidiary to manage all capital funds to be invested in emerging markets.

Its core mobilization, which consists of participation and parallel loans, structured finance, its Asset Management Company funds, and other initiatives, grew from $ 5. 38 billion in 2010 to $ 6. 47 billion in 2011.

The funds will come in many instances in equal parts from the U. S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program monies, private investors, and from loans from the Federal Reserve's Term Asset Lending Facility ( TALF ).

Sununu was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on the Congressional Oversight Panel ( COP ) for the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, whose purpose is to assess how the TARP program is working, in order to help Congress determine whether to continue injecting capital into the financial sector.

Wealth Management: Asset management, investment management, including mutual funds, and private banking services to institutional clients and high net worth individuals.

The four hedge funds are Appaloosa Management, Aurelius Capital Management, Centerbridge Partners and Owl Creek Asset Management.

* Asset management company, a firm that invests the pooled funds of retail investors in securities in line with the stated investment objectives

In 1986, the firm formed Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which manages the majority of its mutual funds and hedge funds today.

IIU Asset Strategies Limited is the hedge fund arm of the company, offering convertible bonds and equity funds.

In the 111th Congress, Snowe backed the release of additional Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) funds and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

He was one of the originators of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, created the Sharpe ratio for risk-adjusted investment performance analysis, contributed to the development of the binomial method for the valuation of options, the gradient method for asset allocation optimization, and returns-based style analysis for evaluating the style and performance of investment funds.

Asset stripping-asset stripping is taking company funds or assets of value while leaving behind the debts.

* Asset management-the term usually given to describe companies which run collective investment funds.

The program was expected to cost approximately $ 10 billion over the course of one year, paid for out of unspent Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, and would reduce energy consumption of homes that took full advantage of the program by up to 20 %.

It was among the first banks to repay the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) funds.

In 1997, Putnam established alliances with Nippon Life Insurance in Osaka, Japan, and Nissay Asset Management Company, a unit of Nippon Life, to manage and market products to sponsors of pension funds in Japan.

When completed, bondholders – led by hedge funds West Face Capital, GoldenTree Asset Management, and Beach Point Capital Management – will own a majority of shares, leaving existing shareholders, including the Asper family, with a total of 2. 3 % of the " new " Canwest.

Hedge funds are using Total Return Swaps to obtain leverage on the Reference Assets: they can receive the return of the asset, typically from a bank ( which has a funding cost advantage ), without having to put out the cash to buy the Asset.

In a November 3, 2011 press release on its website, A & P announced that it had entered into an agreement to receive $ 490 million of debt and equity financing from private investors the Yucaipa Companies, Mount Kellett Capital Management, and investment funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, subject to approval of the U. S. bankruptcy court.

Brookfield Asset Management invests through public, listed companies and through private funds.