Milgram's project fits one element of the Arnold model: fund promising research for relatively small amounts millions, if that can be deemed small with the implicit commitment to spend substantially more if the results point to practical solutions.
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But it says the model of a fund as an independent discretionary trust delivering social care is "financially unsustainable".
The quant fund model over at ClearStream Investments in Boston has been buying in and out of the big emerging markets for the last month, but never convinced to hold onto those equities packed in the popular exchange traded funds for longer than a couple of weeks, tops.
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In fact, when pushed to identify women who have attempted the search fund model, leaders in the niche investment community are hard-pressed to name anyone other than Karen Moriarty, CEO of Carillon Assisted Living, the company she decided to start herself rather than acquire another through her search fund.
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Their allocation model is used by fund managers at Roosevelt Investments in New York.
Almost 3 decades later, his model and a mutual fund based on it have accumulated quite an enviable track record, even through the financial crisis in 2008.
Companies looking to follow the GM model will have to fund the plan as well as contribute an additional 15% of their assets as premium to the insurance company chosen to cover the pension.
Veteran fund picker Sheldon Jacobs, editor of the No-Load Fund Investor, is delighted with the boost his favorite international equity fund gave his model portfolios last month: Longleaf Partners International ( LLINX) was up 14.2% in April.
We are seeing a series of experiments with different MMO monetization models at present, but all have the same problem: games which cost as much as or more than a full-sized game are hard to fund with a model best applied to small, repetitive mobile and social games.
The model may have enabled traders to fund themselves too cheaply, but the bank's managers set the internal cost of capital too low.
Our aim is to allow as many people as possible to have access to our broadband-quality content, so rather than charge users to subscribe we decided that an advertising model was the best way to fund the upgrade.
Prime brokerages use its VAR model to set margin requirements for hedge fund clients.
When she was a 5-foot-8 sixth grader, a friend of her parents asked if she would model in a fashion show to help fund-raise for a neighborhood family.
Ebix gets strong interest from the model I base on the writings of hedge fund guru Joel Greenblatt.
The model I base on the writings of mutual fund legend Peter Lynch is also high on China Mobile.
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The data-mining software is partly based on a model the SEC developed to trawl through hedge fund returns for signs of Bernard Madoff-style chicanery.
GameStop, which also trades for just 0.4 times trailing 12-month sales and 1.3 times book value, also gets strong interest from the model I base on the writings of hedge fund guru Joel Greenblatt.
The standard bearer capital allocation model of a portfolio describes inherent risks to the fund, but not reward.
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Investors love to fund growth and scaling of a proven business model for entrepreneurs, and they avoid at all costs funding research and development for engineers.
The mutual fund regulatory structure is generally recognized today as a model of poor corporate governance.
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He's been playing defense since earlier this year, and his model portfolios are partially hedged against a downturn with a bear fund.
One of the advantages of the royalty model is that producers will often sell a royalty to help fund the development of a project.
The Newcastle-based bank had been regarded as one of the most reputable mortgage lenders until the collapse of its business model, which had relied mainly on the wholesale money markets to fund its mortgages, instead of deposits.
Thanks to her courageous and visionary leadership, a model has been created that should be followed by every public pension fund in the country - starting with the many-billion dollar Federal Thrift Savings Plan for which all executive branch, congressional and other federal government employees are eligible.
Following this model, you could invest your funds in Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund.
The more sophisticated the fund manager appears to be, and the more complex his model, the harder it is for the client to tell whether the strategy will produce skewed returns.
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Vernon Sumnicht, chief executive of iSectors, says the hedge-fund index was always the internal benchmark for the Liquid Alternatives model, but that the firm that reports iSectors' returns to advisers and clients wasn't able to obtain full access to the hedge-fund index data until recently.
Brazil was one of the first to successfully scrap the old Washington Consensus model of debt service and budget cuts, paying off its loans with the International Monetary Fund in the first few years of the Lula presidency.
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The second fee structure is a commission model under which the adviser is paid for selling a particular investment product, like a mutual fund or an annuity.
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