Lula's critics carp that the Family Fund merely alleviates poverty without providing an exit.
If customers have bought funds merely on their bank's recommendation, they may not stay loyal for long.
However, when Argentina ignores it, the fund merely wrings its hands, laments the "absence of progress"—and feebly sets a new deadline.In 2010 we added a precautionary footnote to our statistical tables.
There is a simple solution that will strengthen the government's hand in collecting capital gains taxes on stocks and mutual funds: merely require that brokerage firms calculate capital gains and report them on a Form 1099.
A broker is not legally barred from recommending a mutual fund merely because it has higher costs and a worse record than another.Luckily for investors, there is enough information published regularly for them to be able to compare lots of funds.
"Is that fair that people invested their funds, merely deposited their money with banks without breaking any laws, whether the laws of Cyprus or those of the European Union, just to see 60 percent of their deposits forfeited?" Mr. Putin said in the interview.
Accel has already more than repaid investors in its fund, merely by selling a sliver of Facebook last November.
Moreover, most events will take place far from where the majority of residents live, so apart from short-term jobs, the Games may not improve life in the city as a whole, with funding merely transferred from other projects.
Never mind the $150,000 per copyright violation movie tickets are, what, $10 these days?—but the MPAA believes it should be able to extract such funds merely because, you know, it's "difficult" to prove any wrongdoing?
Democrats altered its terms so that education funding merely flatlined, preventing deeper harm to the state's schools.
