The Students' Green Fund engages more than 50,000 students which is great, but arguably the greatest potential long-term benefit from the scheme lies in the development of mutually beneficial partnerships between students and academics in sustainability – and beyond.
The Calvert Global Water fund engages in advocacy and policy work to promote "thorny issues" around access to clean water and establishing guidelines for companies in how they deal with their water use, according to Kennedy at Calvert.
But the hedge fund engaged in a public battle with CNet Networks to replace its board in 2008.
The activist hedge fund Engaged Capital has pushed for the restaurant chain Del Frisco's to sell itself.
Bank of America, accused by the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, of letting a hedge fund engage in improper mutual fund trading, said yesterday that it planned to reimburse investors who lost money from the transactions.
Phrases such as the "brightest minds" (prominent in earlier strategies but criticized by some for sounding rather elitist) have been ditched, and replaced with a sharper focus on the "diversity of people we fund, engage with and employ".
The settlement, approved by Judge Harold Baer of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, settles accusations that Michael Schonberg, the former manager of the Dreyfus Premier Aggressive Growth Fund and the Dreyfus Aggressive Growth Fund, engaged in front-running, which is prohibited because it creates a potential conflict of interest.
In the unfolding mutual fund scandal, regulators ordered the shutdown of a Phoenix financial services firm accused of helping a hedge fund engage in illegal trading.
This work was supported by "Familien Erichsens Mindefond", The Lundbeck Foundation, "Johs M Klein og Hustrus mindelegat", "Agnete Løvgreens Legat", the Danish Cancer Society, grant DP00027, the grant ENGAGE from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and a grant from the Danish Ministry of Health, Research Centre for Environmental Health's Fund, ENGAGE.
Other funds engaged in the more controversial practice of suspending redemptions without a previous contractual agreement.
Pension funds engage in short-term trading, or "beauty contest" investing as Keynes called it.
