Merrill Lynch international private client brokers can sell funds from as many 30 offshore families and has a New York-based unit devoted to fund analysis and selection.
Some of the very companies whose employees cut checks for Obama in 2008 now seem fully devoted to funding his competitor in 2012.
In recent years, as Congress has poured trillions of dollars into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and into an escalating Pentagon budget, well over half of U.S. federal discretionary spending has been devoted to funding the U.S. military.
More interested in policy than politics, it's an open question whether the 61-year-old Mr. Daniels would be willing to put in the thousands of hours a nominee is required to devote to fund-raising and campaigning in small hamlets.
When Mr. Obama decided after he clinched the Democratic nomination to forgo public financing, campaign officials said they needed to raise at least twice as much as they would receive in public money, with a goal of raising three times as much, to make it worth the added time away from campaigning that he needed to devote to fund-raising.
From that time on, Brown was devoted to fund-raising and recruiting for his Southern invasion plan, which soon centered on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Geldof has no music career to rekindle, and his life for the last 20 years has been almost entirely devoted to fund-raising.
The fund, which is made up of Accel's existing capital, will be devoted to funding innovation across entire "big data stack" from infrastructure (storage, security, management, etc).
He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization.
Firms enjoy reduced financing costs on their other debts, freeing up cash that they can devote to the pension fund.
The FBI has trained more than 800 members of the country's security personnel in counterterrorism, and the US government devoted $19 million to fund Kenyan counterterrorism in 2012 alone.
