Vice President Al Gore has come under intense criticism in recent days for making direct fund-raising calls from his White House office.
According to the May 2010 Morningstar Direct Fund Flows Update, investors continue to draw money out of money market funds at a record pace.
Hillsdale refused, citing a lack of both direct federal fund- ing and anyone claiming discrimination.
Direct hedge fund portfolios beat the average fund of a hedge fund by 4%, according to the Hennessee survey.
Thirty-nine percent of direct hedge fund investors said their investments exceeded their expectations, as compared with 19% of fund of funds investors.
Among the economic policies implemented by the Russian government to encourage foreign investment include the creation of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).
Rutherford has written letters of protest to the fund and to Bruce Eberle, a direct-mail fund raiser working for the fund.
Even more bizarrely, companies can direct pension-fund trustees how to vote at annual general meetings, even though they no longer own the shares themselves.
Investors willing to take additional risk might also consider leaving their current 401(k) savings in a target-date fund, but direct all new contributions into a domestic equity fund or international stock fund to boost returns, says Michael Francis, president of Francis Investment Counsel, a consulting firm specializing in retirement plans.
Others have argued for using the fund to provide direct guarantees to countries in difficulty but that probably violates EU treaties.
Concerns about CalPERS' inattention to these factors prompted the the California State Legislature's Joint Legislative Audit Committee on 27 June 2000 to direct an audit of the fund's international portfolio.
Instead, you can transfer your stock to the donor-advised fund and then direct a grant to the charity so that they never have to deal with the shares of donated stock.
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According to Shipione, since the 1980s, some money managers for the San Diego fund were told to direct trades through Alpha.
Unlike the BATS program, which sets a daily bounty for the top two firms making quotes in listed products, the NYSE and Nasdaq proposals form a more-direct link between market makers and fund sponsors.
Ideally it should come from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Europe's new bail-out fund, as a direct capital injection into banks rather than as loans to governments, which then use the money to recapitalise their ailing lenders.
As far as I can tell, this idea of an Energy Security Trust comes from this ill-fated house bill from 2009 that sought to tax carbon dioxide emissions and direct the tax into a trust fund that would pay for alternative energy research and ( bizarrely) offset payroll taxes for poor families.
One of the most direct examples is an exchange-traded fund, the iShares Lehman 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (amex: SHY).
Traditional fund-raising, using direct mail and events, is far more effective than newer methods, such as e-mail and social networking.
Mr Rees' care is currently paid for by a mixture of the council's direct payments scheme and the Independent Living Fund, which matches it, Ms West told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme.
This certified "terror-free" mutual fund is also reportedly available for direct investment through E-Trade, Ameritrade, Schwab and many other investment firms.
Or how about we levy a special tax on newspapers and magazines and direct the money into a New Media Trust Fund out of which bureaucrats can support research on new non-dead-tree methods of disseminating news?
At the top of fundraising efficiency are nine charities rated at 100%: America's Second Harvest, Brother's Brother Foundation, Children's Hunger Fund, Christian Aid Ministries, Direct Relief International, Public Broadcasting Service, RBCMinistries, Surgical Eye Expeditions International and Tides Foundation.
This is a direct result of the lifesaving success of the Global Fund and, very importantly, U.S. investments in the Global Fund.
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Goldman, along with the Citadel hedge fund and Knight Capital Group, owns Direct Edge, a broker-dealer that provides one-stop shopping by aggregating orders and using 10 of the most active dark pools to execute orders.
Recognizing that this raises costs for all its investors, even those who buy directly from Davis, the fund sponsor created a new share class for each fund without the 12b-l fee for direct investors.
Tiring of the Big Apple, Gilani moved to Florida in 1999 and started another hedge fund and opened a brokerage firm focused on direct access trading of what would soon morph into high frequency algorithms, many of which he designed and still uses.
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Using Swiss direct democracy, he could make Mr Koller's proposed fund the subject of a referendum.
The financial markets require regulation and thousands of state and federal employees have as their direct responsibility the policing of banks and stock brokers and hedge fund managers and pension trustees.
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With a donor-advised fund, she could instead make a donation to the fund, take her tax break, and then direct the cash donations to the charity either right away or whenever she chose.
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India is financing its current-account deficit with volatile foreign fund inflows into the capital markets rather than foreign direct investment, which is a matter of concern, Mr. Subbarao said at an event in Mumbai.
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