Such reforms are also being adopted by the government's other investment agencies, such as the state pension fund and a government-backed fund for Malays.
As financial secretary during the height of the 1997 financial crisis, he organised a government-sponsored fund that poured public money into the stockmarket.
As financial secretary during the height of the 1997 financial crisis, he organised a government-sponsored fund that poured public money into the stockmarket, to support share prices.
Shareholder capitalism would get a huge boost if the government obliged pension-fund trustees, like their foreign counterparts, to chase the best returns.
Such a financing system relies on one "payer" -- which could be a government-run agency -- to fund all health care costs billed by doctors, hospitals and other health professionals.
MassChallenge is also working with the Russian Venture Company, a government-sponsored venture capital fund, to design similar competitions in St.
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The investment - the latest round from the Scottish government's Reoffending Change Fund - will be split between six projects across the country over the next two years.
Another reason not to shift into reverse - according to the fund - is that the government still has other things left in the locker to try.
But serious interest has now come from the Pacific: Diageo confirmed on Tuesday that the government-backed China Investment Corporation fund had taken a 1% stake, strengthening the ties between the drinksmaker and one of its most promising markets.
Talisman claims to have convinced the government to set up a fund to help war-ravaged areas, an idea the government claims as its own.
Almost 71 percent of citizens said they would prefer to pay a service fee rather than fund e-government initiatives through taxes.
Eaton Vance ( EV - news - people ) Government Obligations fund, likes pools of their seasoned securities.
In 1999, the government launched a small-business innovation fund, for instance, but its bureaucratic DNA tells it to place only safe bets.
Her company, CTC, is advising Dartington as part of the DTI Challenge Fund - a government scheme to improve the work-life balance of Britain's businesses.
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The Conservatives' assembly leader Andrew RT Davies said Helvetic's decision was "a wake-up call for a Welsh government who are hell-bent on using taxpayer money to fund the purchase of the airport, without presenting a convincing case for how they will make the acquisition work for the Welsh public".
But Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi said the previous Labour government's Future Jobs Fund had "squandered millions" on short-term placements.
Demand for longer-dated government bonds has come from other sorts of fund managers too, such as those with portfolios of mortgage-backed securities (bonds secured against lots of mortgages).
Following the latest interest-rate cut, the housing ministry has also lowered the costs for home buyers of borrowing from a government fund, which is aimed at supporting first-time purchasers.
An effective natural-resource fund requires a government that can resist both economic populism and kleptocracy.
Congress in the mid-1990s forbade the federal government to fund its own research into the health risks presented by guns.
So for a relatively short period of 18-24 months, the government will substitute revenue fall-out from weak oil prices with their reserve fund cash.
In fact, there are 624bn of them - which, on my calculation, is the sterling value of gilt sales, or fund-raising by the government, needed from 2012 to 2016.
The year-old paper said the volatility in projecting North Sea oil revenues created financial uncertainty and, although an oil fund - which the Scottish government has said it wants to set up after independence - could increase stability, it might mean spending cuts.
If much of that is borrowed at the higher 3.5% interest rate prevailing today, that would deprive the French government of vital money to fund public services - which is not great news just days after France announced an emergency five-year 65bn euro package of tax rises and spending cuts to reduce its public-sector deficit.
The Prototype Fund is a UK-wide scheme supported by the European Regional Development Fund, Scottish government and Abertay University to help firms launch new companies and test out business opportunities in interactive media.
He added that the government will look to grow its logistics and fund-management industries to support long-term economic growth.
One Chinese newspaper said the government was considering the launch of a trillion-yuan fund to help build affordable homes.
There are also calls to enhance the services available to support Britain's Roma communities, to ensure children can maintain their cultural links if taken into care - although the coalition government cut the Migrant Impact Fund in 2010.
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