They urged the president to support their efforts to move funds from other parts of the program into the pre-existing condition fund so it can continue to accept new enrollees.
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Although these remain the pre-eminent kind of pension fund by value, companies have become increasingly leery of the risks involved in underwriting them.
Among those self-reporting as scared, only 24 percent have a bigger emergency fund than they had pre-crisis.
Eventually, the idea emerged to create a facility -- different from a "fund" in that it represents pre-arranged promises to lend rather than an actual block of money in an account -- that could be in place by early next year.
While such an arrangement is similar to a big venture-capital firm or hedge fund with many investors pumping money into a company at a pre-public stage, it has the potential to include many more investors in the pool.
The government is to fund an extra 33, 000 pre-school places for three-year-olds this year - as it seeks to stop playgroup closures and meet its own targets.
Either way the two hedge fund managers whose firms piled into Facebook pre-IPO will profit much more than the hedge funds that caused all the trouble for JPMorgan.
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To this end, the National Congress approved legislation calling for the creation of a social fund that will receive 50 percent of pre-salt oil revenues to support state-run socioeconomic programs.
He wants Xstrata to raise its contribution to a social fund from 3% to 30% of pre-tax profits.
The brokerage arm of Fidelity Investments, the fund giant, three years ago extended its pre-open trading from 8 a.m. to 7 a.m.
But I was amused over the pre-Thanksgiving weekend, reading all the quotes from municipal bond fund managers saying that muni buyers are stepping up their buying.
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The stock had seen extreme weakness for the past few weeks after hedge fund investor David Einhorn, famous for his pre-financial crisis Lehman Brothers (LEH) short, presented a comprehensive bear case.
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In contrast, an active strategy exists when a fund manager knowingly and willingly attempts to beat a pre-designated benchmark.
The popular iShares FTSE Xinhua China 25 (FXI) exchange traded fund is down 0.8% in the pre-market hours on Wednesday.
We can end the era of defensive medicine with real malpractice reforms, and use the savings to fund state programs that provide insurance for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
The iShares FTSE China (FXI) exchange trade fund was down 1.25% in the pre-market minutes on Monday and opened 2.07% lower thanks to a mix of U.S. and European news.
Babson has gone on to accept pre-offering stock from 14 other alumni and has even set up a new fund to do so.
And it would also be nice to see some of the big foundations poor some money into pre-K programs in the poorest neighborhoods in this country with the same gusto they fund the school-choice movement.
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Pre-publication leaks tried to cast Mr Brown as the champion of defence: he would fund fully two new aircraft carriers, as well as the Typhoon fighter and the Joint Strike Fighter, all the while maintaining the army at about 100, 000 men and remaining committed to the war in Afghanistan.
They can fund these purchases by using some of their cash or switching out of their pre-decline holdings.
The money will fund four discreet projects between now and 2015, including administration of vaccines and pre-natal and infant care.
But it is too soon to tell whether the vehicle will ever be restored to its former pre-credit-crunch glory, when it was able to issue short-term commercial paper to fund its investments in asset-backed securities.
Any money that the Fund might give to the Dominican Republic in the next few months is likely to be wasted on pre-election spending.
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However, investors could make more informed fund choices if they knew whether managers are paid for short- or long-term performance and pre- or post-tax results.
While it may seem redundant for Petrobras to invest in a company with a substantially smaller pre-salt operation in Brazil, analysts for Bloomberg explained that the deal might be a way for Petrobras to indirectly fund deep sea projects it operates via joint-ventures with Galp.
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