Perhaps the most exciting thing about Lunar Mission One right now — a decade out from any possibility of touching down on the Moon's surface — is the potential the team sees for crowdfunding as a means to fund space missions.
In the Zogby polls, a significant portion of respondents, around a third, wanted to fund space exploration "no matter what the costs".
This democratization of the hedge fund industry "is the hottest thing in the mutual fund space right now," said Nadia Papagiannis, an alternative-investment strategist at Morningstar, the fund researcher.
With a PhD in economics, and 25 years experience in the nonprofit sector, Marilyn Simons has the intellectual gravitas to be a top philanthropy leader in a sophisticated funding space.
If you fund space, then you're giving artists the space to fail as well as succeed.
The move comes as the pace of deals in the hedge fund space are only modestly higher than last year.
"The biggest challenge in the target-date fund space is helping people understand that more absolute return is not always good," he said.
You'll see a higher percentage of closed-end funds invest in bonds and preferred stocks, compared with the open-end fund space.
These high-cost funds are really just active management strategies that have been recast as indexes for the purpose of invading the index fund space.
Space exploration is too expensive, many say -- we should focus on spending more to help people than fund space agencies.
