While some other firms have started to invest in seed funds, Cendana is the only firm to focus specifically on seed funds, says Michael Kim, a former venture capitalist at Rustic Canyon Partners, who heads the firm.
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The focus of these funds varies greatly, from emerging markets to global real estate.
"We focus on large funds and interesting funds, " Ms. Lallos says.
Vanguard has refrained from announcing whether its Canadian arm will focus on traditional mutual funds or ETFs, although CTV seems to think that its focus will be ETFs.
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There are numerous ETFs and mutual funds that focus on these kinds of companies.
Hershey Jr. suggests that investors look into mutual funds that focus on stocks paying high dividends.
For investors who don't want to pick individual stocks, there are funds that focus on income stocks.
In light of this heightened focus, alternative investment funds and their managers have had to adapt to the new world around them.
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The iShares family of ETFs, for example, offers funds that focus on smaller markets such as Malaysia, Chile, Singapore and South Africa.
The focus on the leading funds from these companies makes it a much easier task to select the right mix of funds.
In the early part of this decade, when interest rates increased, we saw equity-income stocks (or, mutual funds that focus on these stocks) increase significantly, when Treasury yields rose.
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Lawmakers' focus has shifted from hedge funds bilking their own investors to those whose trading tactics directly or indirectly harm outside investors.
FaithShares, meanwhile, recently applied to the SEC to launch a series of exchange-traded funds that would focus on Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist principles.
As a result, the focus on private equity and hedge funds has intensified.
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Given the highly contentious and controversial nature of plaintiff class action firms and the fact that they focus their marketing efforts on public funds, expect to be grilled about these arrangements.
Petraeus said his team needs funds to be able to focus on training and equipping forces to conduct counter-insurgency operations.
Regarding how MF Global treated customer funds, the subcommittee will focus on whether the rating companies looked into the futures firm's internal processes and systems.
Here we focus on the former group--smallish funds with moderate costs (see table, p. 232).
An area of focus of the investigation will be the development funds of PT Bumi Resources Tbk.
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Other all-in-one funds include those with a specific focus that gather together a variety of asset classes under one roof.
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Increased efficiency of operations allows investors and consultants to focus on their core competencies, and when funds provide the proper information to investors in a timely manner, investors make confident decisions, which ultimately lead to stronger relationships between fund, consultant and investor.
The phenomenon came into focus for me with an analysis of hot mutual funds by John Chamberlain of our Statistics Department.
Official Washington has begun to focus on the implications of the planned sequestration of funds in January that will result in record cuts in defense spending.
The Commission is reviewing its priorities for the next funding period, 2013-2020, and is proposing "much stricter conditions as well as incentives to ensure the effective use of the funds", with "an increased focus on results".
As indicated above, the focus of these statutes is on criminalizing the movement of funds from unlawful activity.
The MMA Praxis funds invest according to Mennonite beliefs, and focus on promoting causes like AIDS prevention and stamping out predatory lending.
The key figure participants should focus on is the investment expense ratio charged by mutual funds for assets you hold in the plan.
BlackRock, headed by CEO Larry Fink, number 48 in Forbes' World's Most Powerful People, has been the focus of various foreign investments, including numerous sovereign wealth funds.
The media focus on huge surpluses spent by major corporations or sovereign wealth funds, but a substantial amount of the money being made in places like China or India also accumulates into family networks.
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