China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China's largest investment funds.
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.
Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of t...
Fund Raiser Receptionist: For dinner with the president is $500 you know? Rizwan Khan: That's... that's $500 Fund Raiser Receptionist: What church are you from? Rizwan Khan: Church? Church? Fund Raiser Receptionist: This is a Christian's only event. ...
I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon whi...
I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of stat...
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are activel...
Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds - or the market.
One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front li...
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.
I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.
The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.
My advice is this: If you want to buy funds, buy no-loads, because you'll spare yourself the commission. But every time you sell, whether you buy another fund or not, put 5% into an account for your spouse to blow on whatever. Two things will happen....
I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.
