The company also says mortgage-backed funds are up 3.74% and relative value funds (which would also hold mortgage bonds) are up 6.53%.
Abu Dhabi has been taking advantage of low prices and turmoil in the U.S. markets, making a series of through various state-backed funds.
Other government-backed funds are thought to have been buying as well, which may explain why the banks' share prices have held up even as banks elsewhere totter.
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Banks established or acquired brokerage firms, launched their own mutual funds, invested in and backed hedge funds, sliced and diced mortgages into derivatives and sold them as investments, while diving into proprietary trading for their own accounts in a big and reckless way.
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Louis' Center for Emerging Technologies--backed by funds from the feds, the state, the city and the University of Missouri--began offering subsidized lab and office space last year.
Analysts said the initial spike in prices was due to purchases by government-backed local funds, which were net sellers over the past few months ahead of the election.
When the U.S. Treasury sells bonds, about a third of the issuance is taken up by foreign buyers, mainly Asian central banks and quasi-state backed investment funds of the Middle East.
The two-time Olympic silver medallist and his 10-man crew, who are backed by Chinese funds, are rated as strong outsiders among the eight-yacht race.
Well-heeled funds are being backed by the likes of Colony Capital, GI Partners and several huge hedge funds.
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Lord Heseltine also backed suggestions that pension funds should provide funding for infrastructure projects.
If it were just a few hedge funds, backed by rich people, losing money, it might not matter.
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The government's recently stopped requiring gold-backed exchange-traded funds to hold physical gold in the amount of their sales.
The Fed offered to expand its emergency lending program to help commercial banks finance the purchase of asset-backed securities from the funds.
Ball cited liquidity from global central banks, gold buying by central banks, demand from gold-backed exchange-traded funds and lack of producer selling.
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Comparing 28, 000 venture-backed companies who raised funds between 1980 and 2006, Tian studied whether venture firms could use technology to monitor investments just as well from a distance.
The sheer swiftness of gold's decline on Monday meant that investors were willing to pay a premium for put options on gold and silver-backed exchange-traded funds, a centerpiece of his strategy.
For big banks, or for systemic crises, funds are usually backed by their governments.
American regulators are on the verge of approving physically backed copper exchange-traded funds, listed investment vehicles that have become hugely popular.
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After talks in Amman, Mr Obama said the funds - if backed by Congress - would help provide more humanitarian aid.
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It is a EUR 160 million fund of funds, again backed by TTGV and the European Investment Fund (EIF), as an vehicle to encourage others to take out risk in Turkish start-ups.
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However, whereas HSAs are financed via personal funds, ESAs are backed by public education dollars.
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Their database is composed of Treasury issues, federal agency issues, mortgages, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, money market funds and asset-backed securities.
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Hedge funds betting on mortgage-backed securities, emerging markets and commodities have been hurt.
The template is its September 19th announcement that it would finance banks' purchases of asset-backed commercial paper from money-market funds.
The Federal Reserve responded with several programs, including a facility to finance bank purchases of high-quality asset-backed commercial paper from money market mutual funds.
But these firms should not be allowed to run these hedge funds and private equities funds while running a bank backed by the American people.
These upstart, independent engine companies range from ventures backed by Silicon Valley venture-capital funds to a bootstrap shop run as a hobby by the owner of an aircraft-engine machining company.
The Reserve Bank of India said it would ban banks and non-finance companies from giving loans against units held in gold exchange-traded funds and gold mutual funds because these products are backed by bullion.
Essentially leveraged bond funds that own mortgage-backed securities, the Agency MREITs have been the among the few financial stocks to deliver positive total returns in the last 18 months since credit concerns resurfaced for most bank and financial stocks.
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