We have found that even in the face of the most damning of evidence funds will defend their consultants.
Perino, analyzing 232 class action settlements, found that union funds showed no evidence of playing law firms against one another to drive down fees, while large state funds did.
In addition, others pointed to the inflows of money into gold exchange-traded funds in November as evidence of investor interest in having exposure to gold.
Savings and preservation of capital are paramount, and you can see the evidence as investors continue to flee equity mutual funds in favor of bond funds.
Fake businesses were being created and funds recycled to provide evidence of entrepreneurial activity, he said.
But some industry observers suggest the activism and other high-profile tactics admittedly, still practised by only a small fraction of hedge funds are evidence that the industry has become more mainstream.
This attack on campus free speech follows the Education Department's directive two years ago requiring every college in the country that receives federal funds to lower the standard of evidence in sexual-harassment cases.
For some inexplicable reason, one of the hedge funds kept digital recordings of their phone calls with Jiau that are now being used as evidence in the investigation.
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"The Committee obtained no evidence that funds from a foreign government influenced the outcome of any 1996 election, altered U.S. domestic or foreign policy or damaged our national security, " the Democratic report says.
The committee was gathering evidence as part of its inquiry into the next round of European Structural Funds, which Professor Phil Gummett from the higher education funding body HEFCW said was essential for funding academic research in Wales.
There is ample historical evidence that government control over banks' lending can breed cronyism and misallocation of funds.
There isn't much evidence that, in the long run, flows in or out of mutual funds matter a lot to stock returns.
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Evidence of the investor retreat from gold is showing up among gold exchange-traded funds.
Plaintiff lawyers bringing lawsuits against funds no doubt will scrutinize the data for evidence to support claims that the funds did not operate in the best interests of investors.
For instance, evidence in the options market suggests some hedge funds may be in the early stages of accumulation again.
They found strong evidence that fees paid by clients, commissions charged by brokers, and the performance of funds were all directly related to client sophistication.
"If the government believes in evidence-based science can it really remain indifferent to the fact that some of its funds are used to promote quackery and mumbo-jumbo and call it science, " he continued.
While the grave dancers seized on the memo as evidence that Corzine was not only aware, but complicit, in the improper use of customer funds, the reality may be more complex.
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The evidence now shows the activity may have targeted many more hedge funds over a far longer period of time, Streeter says.
An apparently strong case against Alfonso Portillo, a former president, for stealing public funds, was dismissed by a court in May, which CICIG took as evidence of the judiciary's continuing corruption.
We have seen some disturbing evidence of the same in recent weeks, as when Ireland unilaterally guaranteed all bank deposits and thereby sucked funds out of the British banking system.
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All this emphasis on performance, however, has one slight drawback: there is little evidence that funds which perform well for a few years will continue to do so, and plenty of evidence that usually they will not.
Circumstantial evidence that what Wakeem is doing is much harder than it looks: the scarcity of market-beating mutual funds with covered-call strategies.
Although there is still limited empirical evidence on the relative performance of socially responsible investing in comparison to conventional investing, one 2000 study concluded that social mutual funds perform no better or worse than conventional mutual funds.
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