Smith is a London-based fund manager and many years ago co- author of Accounting for Growth.
The Baltimore-based fund shop also has funds that specialize in Asia (PRASX), Latin America (PRLAX) and Eastern Europe (TREMX).
He will soon launch a U.S.-based fund to invest in Silicon Valley startups.
In this category Scott Berry of Morningstar, the Chicago-based fund tracker, likes the Eaton Vance fund, which currently yields 2.7%.
Typical of this group is Social Venture Partners, a Seattle-based fund that is trying to apply the principles of venture capital to charity.
The League One club turned down a takeover bid by Swiss-based fund manager Sebastien Sainsbury, a member of the supermarket dynasty, in November.
Russia is preparing new charges against UK-based fund manager Bill Browder, whose lawyer died in a Russian jail but now faces tax evasion charges.
In November, BBC Sport revealed that the League One had rejected a takeover bid from a group led by Swiss-based fund manager Sebastien Sainsbury.
One might therefore expect that the appointment of an investor in an Ugland-based fund to oversee the IRS would cause Mr. Baucus to blow a gasket.
"We see February as a pause rather than something to be concerned about, " said Emma du Haney, senior fixed-income product specialist at Insight Investment, a London-based fund manager.
By intent, 90% of the Moscow-based fund's staffers are locals.
However, the significant growth in United Kingdom and European based fund managers over the past 15 years has meant that structuring hedge funds has become an increasingly multi-national endeavour.
"Don't quote me on this, but tom.com has a big Li Ka-shing premium attached to it, " says one Hong Kong-based fund manager, who doesn't own the stock but wishes he did.
On average, fees quoted by British funds understate total actual costs by 15%, says Fitzrovia International, a small London-based fund-research outfit that has just compiled the first-ever analysis of such costs in Britain.
"I see a pickup of interest, increased interest from family offices and fund of funds, " says Harvey Sawikin, founder and portfolio manager of Firebird Management, a New York-based fund that focuses on Eastern Europe.
Last week, Cambridge, Mass based fund trackers at EPFR Global said that Brazil as a weighting in emerging market portfolios has gone from 16.7 percent in 2009 to 11.6 percent in November 2012, its lowest weighting since 2005.
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The survey was conducted for Fidelity by the firm GfK. Fidelity, the second-largest U.S. mutual fund company behind Vanguard based on fund assets, was not identified to the 1, 154 survey participants as the sponsor.
Nor did it save U.K. hedge fund Northern Rock, Netherlands-based hedge fund Carlyle Capital or U.S. subprime lender New Century Financial (other-otc: CYFL.PK - news - people ).
Knight's Direct Edge got a minority investment earlier this month from Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel.
Kotak launched its first US based mutual fund for the American retail market on April 11.
Paul Tudor Jones II, a 1976 U-Va. graduate and billionaire Greenwich-based hedge fund manager, took a stab at answering.
They have led workshops, started a community-based loan fund for women, become involved in the political process, and much more!!
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Mitt Romney based on fund raising and early state organization - have both broken through, so there's no frontrunner now.
One prominent London-based hedge fund, the Children's Investment Fund, channels a large chunk of its profits into a charitable foundation.
Aside from his wrestling savvy, Dagvadorj boasts another advantage?a U.S. investor, James Passin of the New York-based Firebird Fund.
Citadel, the Chicago-based hedge fund, sold its sophisticated fund management system, Omnium, to Northern Trust in 2011 and became a client.
Coatue Management LLC, a New York-based hedge fund whose founder once worked for Mr. Robertson, last year opened a Silicon Valley office.
To help rebuild its assets, UBP bought over the past two years the Swiss arm of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, and Paris-based hedge fund Nexar Capital Group.
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Elena Ambrosiadou, the Greek founder of the Cyprus-based hedge fund Ikos, first laid eyes on the Maltese Falcon as she watched it glide by the Grecian island of Delos.
"The ability to lend will not necessarily be boosted by this confidence being injected into the system, " says Dr. Rajiv Sobti, chief investment officer of Nomura Global Alpha, a New York-based hedge fund.
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