Overall, Mr Stevenson says: "The total cost of investing in funds is getting cheaper and investors should consider the choice between using a managed fund to get exposure to the UK market, with the benefit of an expert fund manager trying to outperform the market, or an ETF, which simply tracks the UK market at a lower cost".
Shelling out more money for so-called expert fund managers didn't guarantee better performance.
Donziger, in addition to his roles as a lawyer and a P.R. strategist, had become, by necessity, an expert fund-raiser.
But Mr. Pereira is also an expert fund-raiser and commitments for much of the increase, he said, are already in hand.
DealBook » An Expert Fund-Raiser at Carlyle | The Financial Times has a profile of David M. Rubenstein, one of the founders of the Carlyle Group, who pioneered a model for fund-raising and was the first of the firm's partners to talk openly about the benefits of going public.
He proved to be an expert fund-raiser, and personally donated a million pounds to the cost of refurbishing the Coliseum.
NEW YORK -- The art market plummeted with the onset of the global financial crisis, but experts, fund managers, collectors and auctioneers are optimistic that the once-hot investment is on the verge of solid recovery.
Critics say it pays experts, funds scientific papers that support its case, rubbishes the evidence that goes against it and declares, as part of its participation in the government's Responsibility Deal, that it is making its products more healthy.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Senator John McCain is locking up a cast of top-shelf Republican strategists, policy experts, fund-raisers and donors, in a methodical effort to build a 2008 presidential campaign machine, drawing supporters of President Bush despite the sometimes rocky history between the two men.
The occasion was the release of a report from an outside panel of experts funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The viewer is going to follow these developers as they receive advice from tech experts, funding from "top-tier VCs" and promotion in the App Store.
