While some hedge funds are long-only and others are long-short, OpenGamma has developed software for very quant-driven funds whose strategies use the application of risk to drive their returns, added Wylie.
It does nothing to restore confidence when the biggest model-driven hedge funds had to get in new money.
But Google remains the second most important stock in fundamentals-driven hedge funds, given only slightly less weight than No. 1 favorite Apple, according to a Goldman Sachs ( GS) reports.
There have been many critical moments in the history of space exploration -- Sputnik in 1957, Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Neil Armstrong in 1969 -- but if you look back over the history of manned happenings outside of the atmosphere, almost all of these moments were driven by government funds.
The Indigo Trust, of which I am executive, is a grant-making foundation that funds technology-driven projects that bring about social change in Africa.
Discussions on new, or additional uses, for the castle are being driven by the need for more funds to conserve it.
The rapid stock decline was largely driven by selling by growth mutual funds that are now almost completely divested of the stock.
The trend is driven both by museums flush with funds to fill out their collections and by newly enamored consumers who have come to appreciate the subtleties of menswear.
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Spinoffs these days are being driven by the growing influence of hedge funds, where impatient managers buy up shares of a company and pressure managers to sell off parts of a business to spur quick market gains, many experts say.
The increased price of fixed-rate home loans since then has been driven by the increasing cost of borrowing the funds on the financial markets.
The company launched four funds earlier this summer called the Rydex SGI Event Driven and Distressed Strategies Fund, the Long Short Interest Rate Strategy Fund, the Long Short Equity Fund and the Alternative Strategies Fund.
But this increased demand for core assets from financial institutions and sovereign-wealth funds buying into real estate for the first time has driven up prices and driven down yields.
While exciting and encouraging interest from funds interested in high yield returns also indicates that the promise of female-driven (and female-facing) businesses is being acknowledged.
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Whereas at most companies, different areas of community impact are divided up (for example, mentoring, general philanthropy, community service, and employee matching funds), Warner Bros. manages all community involvement under the employee-driven Impact program.
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In the face of this aloofness, in part driven by regulatory restrictions and the exclusively non-retail nature of their investors, these funds now must now answer mounting questions about who they are and what it is that they actually do.
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