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fund and achieved
After being granted a small research fund at Martin Marietta, Zubrin and his colleagues successfully demonstrated an in-situ propellant generator which achieved an efficiency of 94 %.
A scholarship fund was set up to enable him to further his studies, and eventually he achieved his PhD.
However, many broadcasters who engage in the practice believe that such agreements are beneficial to the survival of television stations, especially in smaller marketswhere the cost savings achieved through the consolidation of resources and staff may be necessary to fund a station's continued operation.
Joel Greenblatt achieved annual returns at the hedge fund Gotham Capital of over 50 % per year for 10 years from 1985 to 1995 before closing the fund and returning his investors ' money.
Market neutral strategies can be seen as the limiting case of equity long / short, in which the long and short portfolios of the fund are balanced with great care so that a very high degree of hedging is achieved.
On May 21, 2009, the University announced they had received a $ 6 million donation from T. Denny Sanford, meaning the university had achieved its goal of $ 86 million in private fund raising.
Jurong Reptile Park pull out in between the season and there is a financial crisis in the club and facing a gravely financial problems, The New Paper planned and set up a " SAVE JURONG CAMPAIGN ", " SAVE JURONG LIFE-LINE ", " Walkaton ", Golf Tournament " and a " Gala Dinner & Dance " in order to raise a fund of $ 500, 000, 00 which was achieved.

fund and positive
He is a trustee for the common good, however feeble the safeguards which the positive or municipal law of property provides against his misuse of that share of the common fund, wisely or unwisely, entrusted to his keeping.
Most hedge fund investment strategies aim to achieve a positive return on investment whether markets are rising or falling.
For example, an inefficient index fund may generate a positive tracking error in a falling market by holding too much cash, which holds its value compared to the market.
Between 1952 and 1967 the population of the region decreased by 1. 7 % as a result of a negative migration balance, well above the national average, with a rate varying between 4. 9 and 10. 0 per 1000 inhabitants. The Average fund of this region is worth about a few million or maybe higher In the same period the natural balance of the population was positive, but lower than the national average and insufficient to counterbalance the net emigration.
After the positive coverage of the manifesto, Cyrus Eaton offered to fund the influential Pugwash Conferences.
Due to the high volume of state loans and increased EB payments, FUA and EUCA are projected to borrow $ 26. 7 billion from the general fund in FY 2011 and an additional $ 19. 4 billion in FY 2012, with neither account projected to return to a net positive balance before 2016.
By the end of the decade, the flow of league players moving on big-money contracts to union seemed to have stabilised, and in fact in many cases this actually proved to be positive for rugby league, with the money gained from transfer fees being used to fund expansion and additional youth development in Britain and with many of the star crossover players returning to rugby league in Australia.
By keeping a positive account balance, and by looking for ways to stretch capital further, revolving fund activities are exercising sound financial management.
He has used the quarterly shareholder letters of his fund as a running critique of what he calls the " primacy of the income account " (" primacy of the income account " means that corporate wealth is created only by flows, i. e., having positive earnings, and / or cash flows for a period ), which he argues serves only short-term speculators rather than long-term investors.
Axelrod's effect on Ontario was heard through the winning Liberal appeal to " working families " and placing an emphasis on positive policy contrasts like canceling corporate tax breaks to fund education and health.

fund and returns
More than half of that money was used to fund programs encouraging sustainable returns of refugees and displaced persons.
A hurdle is intended to ensure that a manager is only rewarded if the fund generates returns in excess of the returns that the investor would have received if they had invested their money elsewhere.
Some types of funds, including hedge funds, are perceived as having a greater appetite for risk, with the intention of maximizing returns, subject to the risk tolerance of investors and the fund manager.
If we examine only funds that have survived to the present, we will overestimate past returns because many of the worst-performing funds have not survived, and the observed association between fund youth and fund performance suggests that this bias may be substantial.
Instead of reflecting the performance of actual hedge funds they take a statistical approach to the analysis of historic hedge fund returns, and use this to construct a model of how hedge fund returns respond to the movements of various investable financial assets.
As replication indices have a relatively short history it is not yet possible to know how reliable this process will be in practice, although initially indications are that much of hedge fund returns can be replicated in this manner without the problems of illiquidity, transparency and fraud that exist in direct hedge fund investments.
# Hedge fund returns are reduced considerably by the high fee structures that are typically charged.
Hedge funds posted disappointing returns in 2008, but the average hedge fund return of − 18. 65 % ( the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index return ) was far better than the returns generated by most assets other than cash or cash equivalents.
Initially successful with annualized returns of over 40 % ( after fees ) in its first years, in 1998 it lost $ 4. 6 billion in less than four months following the Russian financial crisis requiring financial intervention by the Federal Reserve, with the fund liquidating and dissolving in early 2000.
With low management fees, an investor in such a fund would have higher returns than a similar fund with similar investments but higher management fees and / or turnover / transaction costs.
Dalbar Inc., a market research company, found that during the 20 years from 1984 to 2004, the average stock fund investor earned returns of only 3. 7 % per year, while the S & P 500 returned 13. 2 %.
For example, a hedge fund can degenerate into a Ponzi scheme if it unexpectedly loses money ( or simply fails to legitimately earn the returns promised and / or thought to be expected ) and the promoters, instead of admitting their failure to meet expectations, fabricate false returns and, if necessary, produce fraudulent audit reports.
This maintains the deception that the scheme is a fund with high returns.
# Since the scheme requires a continual stream of investments to fund higher returns, once investment slows down, the scheme collapses as the promoter starts having problems paying the promised returns ( the higher the returns, the greater the risk of the Ponzi scheme collapsing ).

fund and almost
In 1968 there were almost 200 hedge funds, and the first fund of funds that utilized hedge funds was created in 1969 in Geneva.
When Nelson almost drops out of school to spend more time on the company, Lisa is saddened and attempts to stop him from doing so, but eventually respects his decision after realising he won't change despite the money used to fund it.
As of 1999 almost half of the general fund of the City of Round Rock originates from sales taxes generated from the Dell headquarters.
Nearly all of this money was funneled back into the police force, which almost exclusively dealt with traffic violations and so essentially existed to fund itself.
Because a fund may run out of capital prior to the end of its life, larger venture capital firms usually have several overlapping funds at the same time ; doing so lets the larger firm keep specialists in all stages of the development of firms almost constantly engaged.
Reuther's death in a plane crash on May 9, 1970, near Black Lake, Michigan, dealt a serious blow to the Alliance, and the group halted operations in July 1971 after the Auto Workers ( almost bankrupt from a lengthy strike at General Motors ) was unable to continue to fund its operations.
In 2002, a Federal Election Commission audit found a fund used by Weller for his re-election in 2000 received almost $ 110, 000 that appeared to have violated federal campaign rules on the size and source of donations.
As of October 2009, the foundation had not awarded any scholarships, and had given out only $ 10, 500 in charitable grants, almost half of which went to a cancer fund run by the chief Washington lobbyist for Eli Lilly and Company.
Between 1919 and 1942, money from the trust fund was used to enlarge the park, increasing its size to almost.
The William Lowe Bryan Memorial Fund, a fund initiated by James Adams in honor of the university ’ s tenth president and in support for the blooming museum, financed almost all of the museum ’ s acquisitions in the early years.
Mutual funds can charge 1 % to 3 %, or more ; index fund expense ratios are generally lower, while ETFs are almost always in the 0. 1 % to 1 % range.
Between 1919 and 1942, money from the trust fund was used to enlarge the park, increasing its size to almost.
APRA currently supervises institutions holding A $ 4 trillion in assets for almost 23 million Australian depositors, policyholders and superannuation fund members.
A second charity ' The Barnabas Fund ' ( charity number 271602 ) holds a contingency fund for the first of almost £ 400, 000.
The entry fee goes to feeding the animals, and also to fund building a larger tiger sanctuary which will allow the animals to live in an almost natural environment.
Various friends, almost all engineers, raised a fund to help him, but he died in his daughter's arms in London on 11 March 1864 aged 75.
The local government has been lobbying to the state and federal governments to fund another freeway exit, because the current one is almost at capacity.
* Feeder fund, an investment fund which does almost all of its investments through a master fund via a master-feeder relationship
Because NHS services are so comprehensive, there are many areas where the private sector usually does not compete and private insurers almost always refuse to fund.
Much like Enzo Ferrari, they produced and sold motorcycles almost exclusively to fund their racing efforts.
" The lawsuit said Bear Stearns told Barclays that the enhanced fund was up almost 6 % through June 2007 — when " in reality, the portfolio's asset values were plummeting.
Local rock concerts became the go-to school fund raising activities, such that there was a concert almost every week.

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