While Warren Buffett has practiced some hedge fund techniques such as trading currencies and commodities, merger arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, PIPEs, and private equity, he is known mostly for his equity investments.
The classic hedge-fund technique, created in 1949 by Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist turned investment manager, developed a more sophisticated version of the gambling strategy.
Reimbursement of funds – This funding technique requires the recipient to pay program expenditures with their own funds, and then request a reimbursement for those expenses from the Federal government or pass-through entity.
Third, the party must think again about fundraising and adopt online funding techniques that are working for broad-based campaigning organisations like 38 Degrees.
Mr. Conway had a reputation as a dynamic leader with a range of expertise, from home mortgage lending to real estate finance and development, to sophisticated financing and asset-related funding techniques.
Federal assistance for program operations is provided to recipients usually by one of two methods, also called "funding techniques": by either advances of funds or by reimbursement of funds.
One reason the Democrats did so well in financing and electing their Senate candidates was their use of the new fund-raising technique, called the joint fund-raising committee, to attract soft money, donations to support a party and its goals rather than a candidate.
Mr. McCain's aides said that to deal with his fund-raising problems, he would adopt what had been a centerpiece of Mr. Bush's fund-raising technique, and one that has been embraced by most major presidential candidates: creating an honorary campaign designation to reward the campaign's top money raisers.
Using a relatively obscure fund-raising technique, Senate Democrats raised more unlimited, unregulated soft money than the Republicans did in the 2000 election cycle.
The bill's prospects in the House have become less certain as former supporters of the legislation, including black, Hispanic and liberal lawmakers, have expressed doubts about ending a fund-raising technique they have come to rely on.
The second largest beneficiary in the Senate of the joint fund-raising technique -- Mel Carnahan of Missouri, who died in a plane crash before the election -- raised about $1 million in soft money with his joint committee, much less than Mrs. Clinton.
