Barclays sees the pension fund problem being the biggest long term drain on government resources.
Mr. RALPH HERNDON (Former General Motors Employee): I'm concerned about the security of investments that UAW are going to have to make to try and keep this fund problem.
And that's why we have a big problem with fees, we have a big problem with mutual fund governance, we have a big problem with mutual funds participating in the governance of our industrial corporations and other kinds of corporations in the U.S. They don't take the responsibility for ownership, because that doesn't produce any returns for the owners of the management companies.
Sheriff Paul Arthurson heard that Amjid had stolen the cash to fund a gambling problem.
Judging from the headlines, U.S. fund customers' biggest problem is looting by the managers.
Yes, bond fund investors exacerbated the problem by piling in and out of muni funds at the same time.
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Conservatives like to complain that the trust fund is nothing but a set of IOUs, but the problem is that the trust fund is full of real securities that are subject to the debt limit.
In its new form, the Violence Against Women Act would fund programs to fight the new problem of cyber-stalking.
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He also pledged to fund community projects aimed at "problem families".
Nixon solved that problem by naming his chief fund-raiser, Maurice Stans, to the Cabinet job of commerce secretary.
The nonprofit Hawaii Wildlife Fund said marine debris has been a problem for years for the island state and tsunami debris has made things worse.
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So the central bank of the European Union, and the International Monetary Fund, joined forces to kick the problem down the road by providing loans that would allow Greece to make its upcoming debt payments.
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Debt becomes more of a problem when it is used to fund current consumption.
Taxpayers around the world are expected to fund literally billions of dollars to tackle the problem.
Just one problem: Madrona's new fund realized a measly 2.6% internal rate of return in the past year.
This problem is easily dealt with by the fund adopting a policy that restricts such contracting with former Board members for a period of time.
However she was less concerned about "pots of money" such as the achievement fund, than she was about the "real problem of core funding" for colleges, which she said was not rising with inflation.
The only problem Kramer sees with the new Naissance Capital fund is its possible lack of diversification.
No problem: You just cash out of the fund and call in the mortgage by prepaying it.
Julian Sinclair, a fund manager from Gartmore, said it was not just a problem for the electricity industry.
Of a piece with this problem is the growing politicization of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by G-7 leaders.
It has been one of many fund businesses that have taken lumps during the downturn because of problem investments and weak returns.
The problem is the way that the EFSF (the fund meant to prop up those countries that need it) has been set up.
But the drawing down of principle isn't sustainable, and now there's a cash flow problem--money flowing into the Highway Trust Fund is projected to drop.
Germany will not hear of throwing cash at the problem: no more for the euro-zone rescue fund, no Eurobonds and no open pressure on the ECB to buy more bonds.
Pension funds have the problem of having long-dated liabilities--in this fund's case, thousands of Ontario teachers whose retirements it must fund.
For Feinberg and Cerberus, one way around this problem was to invest in an industry that most pension-fund backed private equity firms dared not touch.
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The Obama Administration is not going to build a Death Star and I do not have a problem with that but the Obama Administration is also refusing to fund a second development air-frame for the Boeing anti-ballistic missile laser battle station and that I regard as a serious policy error.
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While one or more trustee at a given fund might have concerns, still the Boards did not want to acknowledge the problem.
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