In the library, the President went through a familiar fund-raiser routine: a pre-event private "clutch," where he shakes hands, makes small talk, and poses for pictures with an inner group — the host, the governor, the chosen.
However, with the introduction of the new UCITS (undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities) directive from the EU, investors will be able to access familiar funds more easily.
Such a period may seem all too familiar to fund managers dealing with league tables based on annual performance.
Its a familiar story: fund investors chasing performance.
Relatively few potential customers were familiar with funds or found in them much in the way of either cocktail-party conversation or investment promise.
There are the traditional, and familiar, PTA fund-raisers, most of which finance cultural arts programs and assemblies, student scholarships and teacher grants.
Since most of these assets are not locked in, GLG expects to lose the bulk of them in coming months.Abandoning the familiar hedge-fund structure has not liberated GLG from the familiar pitfalls of volatile profits and personalities.
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Though familiar to funding agencies, researchers and the academic journals they publish in, it is an entity that outsiders rarely get to peek into.
Mr. Saxena was eager to find a way for Mr. Gupta to exit New Silk, and Mr. Gupta, after talking to friends familiar with the fund, had come to the view that it was in his best interest to cut ties with the fund.
Sources familiar with the fund said district officials had ordered the money to be frozen.
