News tagged with funding
Investment giant Soros buys shares in Alibaba.com
The Hong Kong-listed arm of China's e-commerce firm Alibaba said Friday that billionaire investor George Soros had bought was now among its top three largest shareholders.
May 14, 2010 |
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Scientists seeking NSF funding will soon be required to submit data management plans
During the May 5th meeting of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation (NSF) officials announced a change in the implementation of the existing policy on sharing research data. In particular, on or around October, ...
May 10, 2010 |
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California state pension funds going broke, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- California public employee pension systems are worse off than anyone previously projected, according to a new report generated by five graduate students in Stanford's Graduate Public Policy Program. The result ...
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Apr 06, 2010 |
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A Fee That Can Actually Make You Money?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Short-term redemption fees protect and boost returns for long-term mutual fund investors.
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Mar 17, 2010 |
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New research counters risky image of popular financial investments
(PhysOrg.com) -- They have been called "financial weapons of mass destruction" and blamed for a number of catastrophic losses and bankruptcies. New research by a finance professor at Virginia Tech's Pamplin ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Research shows profit, not politics, drives sovereign wealth fund
Investment funds owned by national governments -- known as "sovereign wealth funds" - now wield trillions of dollars in investment power globally, raising concerns that the funds could be used for political purposes and leading ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Study: Era of rapid growth in biomedical research over
After a decade of remarkable growth, total annual funding for biomedical research in the U.S. has decelerated and may have even fallen when adjusted for inflation. That is the conclusion of a study today published in the ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Tech investing will be a tougher play in 2010
(AP) -- Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009.
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Pension fund switch to decentralized management right way to go, landmark study finds
As pension funds have grown and become increasingly complex many have turned to using multiple, often pricier specialist managers to steer their investment decisions.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Climate change financing -- the role of development cooperation
"Development cooperation can play an important role in ensuring that the poorest countries will benefit from climate change funding," says Olof Drakenberg, policy analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit at the School ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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How to encourage big ideas
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests certain types of funding -- which provide more freedom and focus less on near-term results -- lead to more innovative and influential research.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Broadband stimulus moves at dial-up speeds
Mark Morgenthaler wants nothing more than to hire 15 people to help expand his wireless Internet service, Surfnet Communications in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He can't wait to start accepting applications, interviewing candidates, ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Silver lining effect study, 'I have some good news and some bad news'
Communicating "I have some good news and some bad news" is better than combining messages into a single, bleak result when small gains and large losses occur together, according to a study in the current issue of Management Sc ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Government delays new ban on Internet gambling
(AP) -- The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Biology, training and profit sharing make best traders
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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