Howard Ward, a portfolio manager at Gabelli Asset Management, which manages the $3.8 billion Gabelli Growth fund, attributed the stock's decline to a worldwide economic downturn, not to Dell's management.
Rick Schmidt, a manager of the Harding Loevner Emerging Markets fund, attributed the run of phenomenal performance to "two and a half stories".
While some of the decline may be the result of a change in the timing of this year's appeal, officials at The New York Times Company Foundation, which administers the fund, attribute much of the decline to the difficulties of raising money for causes not related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
If you are investing in a taxable account, this is a fund attribute worth paying attention to.
The abandoned projects are largely due to a lack of funding attributed to the Budget Control Act and sequestration.
Funding attributed for future research may even depend on these factors.
R&D allocations by firms on our list range from complete dedication to genomics to only a small, but meaningful, fraction of R&D funds attributed to genomics.
This work was co-financed by POCI 2010 and the European social funds attributed by the Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT) to project (POCI/CVT/61052/2004) and CCMAR Pluriannual project and PhD fellowship (BD/17630/04) to FV.
Mark Fetting, who runs Legg Mason's mutual fund group, attributed the difference primarily to the higher costs involved in pricing a retail product distributed through financial advisers.
Fund-raisers attributed the six-month gains to enthusiasm among Republicans about controlling the White House after an eight-year absence.
