Bear Stearns said there was "effectively no value" left for investors in its Enhanced Leverage Fund and "very little value" in the High-Grade Fund, which is the one the bank is bailing out.
Will they opt to leverage a fund or change the EFSF into a bank?
So he turned to Kickstarter, a new startup that lets individuals leverage social networks to fund projects.
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How we leverage scarce dollars and fund what's working and stop funding what doesn't work, in education we're not good at that.
But, admonishes Mr. Keller, you can't overlook the leverage that such a fund adds to your portfolio just because owning it makes you feel special.
As the fund does not employ leverage or derivatives for risk management, Exante intends to provide a two-way secondary market for the trading of fund shares.
As a hedge fund, Capella has the ability to short stocks and can also use leverage, normally a modest 20% of the fund's capital.
Fund managers are copying the success of Bill Gross and the Pimco Total Return fund, which uses leverage.
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The SIF is elevating proven community solutions, helping build scale through philanthropic leverage and evaluation of results to fund programs that work.
By taking on additional leverage in an LBO, a PE fund could unleash value and make the capital structure of the company they take private more efficient.
Those customers tend to have a very specific goal and a strong idea of what they want to do with those orders, be it entering or exiting the underlying market as investors, protecting their equity investments, gaining incremental income over and above simply holding a stock or exchange-traded fund position, or seeking to gain additional leverage.
Having suffered through three thin years, many fund firms have cut costs and boast plenty of upside leverage if assets start flowing in.
The whole idea of the EFSF was that it would be possible to leverage up the guarantees by using the AAA ratings to back he fund.
Managers began to use less internal leverage following the infamous blowup of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund in 1999, although that has been edging back up in recent years.
Because hedge funds are unregulated, managers are free to sell short, use leverage, and invest in illiquid securities--activities not open to mutual-fund managers.
The funds would have those hedge-fund characteristics, says Mr Bonham Carter, but would not go short or use leverage.
Underwriters consider a variety of factors in pricing policies, including the fund's size, its strategy, investor-base, performance, volatility, leverage and service providers.
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