The fund company keeps its talent and gets a piece of the action through lucrative hedge-fund fees.
In Mississippi, the state attorney general determines when the public employees retirement fund should bring a securities class action and which outside firms will represent the fund.
Several charity endeavours, including a single by The Justice Collective - which features Sir Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, former Spice Girl Mel C and Gerry Marsden amongst others - have been launched to help the families fund legal action.
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And analysts say it is important that the assets handed over are protected from any legal action if the fund management company gets into difficulty.
The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund lobbied against JBS before the antitrust committee of America's Senate, warning of price-gouging of farmers and anti-competitive behaviour, and got a sympathetic hearing.
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The real action at Intellectual Ventures is in the acquisition fund.
This is the nightmare that has driven governments, notably America's, to support and indeed insist upon the Fund's course of action.
Early last year promarket activists launched the Free Enterprise Action Fund.
Kerry was introduced by activists with groups that organized the rally, including the Planned Parenthood Action Fund -- which gave him its first-ever presidential endorsement.
The family statement also appeals for donations in Eva Rausing's name to a drug awareness and treatment fund, or to the UK charity Action on Addiction, which she supported.
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"North Dakota's governor today effectively banned abortion in the state, with an outrageous and unconstitutional law that will not stand, " said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Nobody doubts that Wall Street is an old-boys club, but is it the duty of taxpayers to fund affirmative action for financiers?
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But it was DeLay who devised the plan that fund-raisers and political action committees worked from in 2002.
For example, on the right you have the Heritage Foundation and its (c)(4) twin, Heritage Action, just like on the left you have the Center for American Progress and its (c)(4) twin, the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
But the balance of the argument was finer than the Fund and its principal sponsor appear to think and chances to strengthen the case for action have been missed.
The SEC enforcement action vindicates the efforts of Jason Papastavrou, who runs Aris Capital Management and a fund of hedge funds that invested in Quantek.
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Cantor's spokesman, however, noted that an appropriations bill already passed by the House and awaiting action in the Democratic-controlled Senate includes additional money to replenish the FEMA disaster fund.
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IMF's proposal was shelved indefinitely at the Fund's spring meetings, and collective-action clauses have sprung to life.
So the worry for countries that have traditionally run the fund is that power becomes too fragmented for quick action when there's a crisis.
If they had an idea that needed immediate action and the agency was unable to fund it that afternoon, they simply wrote a check from their personal accounts.
Eliot Spitzer showed that by welcoming mutual fund whistleblowers a state regulator with the political will to take action armed with a small staff lacking industry expertise could have greater impact than a federal regulator with a huge staff that had grown too close to the regulated industry.
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Check out the action in the U.S. Oil Fund (USO), which tracks the movement of crude prices.
Funding for the effort has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund through Highland Council's Highland Biodiversity Action Plan Implementation Programme.
Oil giant BP is taking legal action in the US to limit payouts by a fund set up to compensate those affected by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Barack Obama, Edwards has eschewed fund-raising from lobbyists or Political Action Committees (PACs) during the 2008 campaign.
If you're running for president, you generally follow two basic courses of action to fund your campaign: either work your connections at the grass-roots level, or dive straight in to the rivers of cash that flow through places like Manhattan and Los Angeles.
Through research efforts with CFSI as well as the Citi IPA Financial Capability Research Fund, in partnership with Innovations for Poverty Action, among others, we are seeing models of success and effectiveness.
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Before you take any action based on this development, check to see what percent of the fund was held in this company.
In the second decision, a federal judge in New York chucked out a class-action suit after discovering that the plaintiff, a labor-union pension fund, never owned the shares it claimed it lost money on.
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Employment Minister Chris Grayling pointed to action the government was taking to boost business - through the Regional Growth Fund and enterprise zones - as well as the work experience scheme and Work Programme which was having "good success" in getting people in to work.
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