The other fund Myhrvold formed around 2007 was Invention Investment Fund II, its second patent-purchasing fund.
Like other fund managers, Ricks uses Wall Street analysts' forecasts, but not their consensus numbers.
US-64 to report to the regulator, much like any other fund, before the end of the year.
That suggests that most of the 30%-to-50% toll charged by other fund managers is pure profit -- in effect, money for nothing.
Kickstarter, and other crowd-funding sites like it, allow for a kind of transparency that is absent in almost all other fund-raising and business growth processes.
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One other fund worth a look: Dresdner RCM Global Technology Fund.
Several other fund companies have also offered low-cost funds for decades.
Money managers reduced their total longs by 2, 929 lots, although the impact of this was muted by other fund managers cutting their total shorts by 2, 238 lots.
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Special Offer: Among mutual fund newsletters Equity Fund Outlook's 17.4% total return in the last 12 months beat all other fund letters according to Hulbert Financial Digest.
One fund, Accel-IDG Growth Fund III, will be used to back early stage deals while the other fund, Accel-IDG Capital Fund II, will focus on later stage deals.
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Pension participants, on the other hand, need to inquire as to whether their pension boards are asking hard questions such as these of pension consultants, money managers and other fund vendors.
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In the recent FORBES mutual fund issue (Aug. 24), USAA had more offerings -- nine -- on our Best Buy lists than all but three other fund families, all much larger.
The lawsuit is still running, and alarming other fund-managers.
Last year, Wisdom Tree saw a 42 percent increase in new money flows as a percent of assets under management, greater than any other fund company, according to Morgan Stanley Research.
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Several other fund-raising efforts are already under way.
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MS. BROWNER: I think there were some concerns about, under the law, their ability to participate in the other fund, and we wanted to make sure that there were mechanisms to address their needs.
Another solution Vanguard and other mutual fund companies offer to retirement plans is target retirement funds.
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Other hedge fund managers, like Stephen Mandel of Lone Pine Capital, remain focused on China for international investing.
Massachusetts' Galvin said his investigation of UBS and other hedge fund hotel operations indicates that might not be the best policy.
Plenty made mistakes: Temasek, Singapore's other state fund, sold out of Bank of America early this year, probably at a loss.
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However, now that so many people see themselves as investors through 401K and other mutual fund plans, they are not a homogenous group.
That type of track record made the understated, low-key Neff a favorite manager of many other professional fund managers--an "investor's investor, " if you will.
The overall Hennessee Macro Index was off 2.1%, faring better than the other hedge fund indices as some funds were positioned conservatively in Treasuries, TIPS and gold.
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At the end of the year, many other hedge fund managers will try to put out the underperformance fire that is threatening to cause investors to flee.
Hedge funds generally have great freedom in their investment strategies, including the ability to invest assets with other hedge fund managers, and funds and are notoriously lacking in transparency.
But while Cohen has a tough road ahead of him, he might still have an easier time avoiding investor withdrawals than many other hedge fund managers will in the coming weeks.
His 2009 trade became legendary, but while other hedge fund managers who did spectacularly well during the credit crisis have faded, Tepper, a former Goldman Sachs bond trader, has continued to deftly trade financial markets.
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Indeed, the 23, 000 or so backers who have helped fund this project so far make the fact that Obsidian had no other way to fund this game more than a little puzzling.
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There are already, after all, limits on how much commercial paper and other forms of debt fund-management firms can buy from other members of their group.
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