The investment banks say that the gatherings, technically known as capital introduction events, are merely easing introductions between fund managers and investors, and that they are not being used to advertise or to promote specific funds.
It also conducts "profile building," in which managers who are not invited to participate in its own introduction events are speakers at prominent conferences held by third-party organizations, like the Global Alternative Investment Management Forum.
There is no data on the number of capital introduction events, but one investor, Norman Chait, chief executive of Rutherford Asset Management in White Plains, estimates that there are now about 30 a month, nearly double the total a year ago.
Since the Cold War ended in 1991, the pace of bird introduction events has picked up.
Banks have been hosting these so-called capital introduction events for years to curry favor with funds–but not with such excess.
Our analysis also points towards an African origin for Colombian parasite populations, and suggests that their introduction into Colombia was a recurrent process encompassing multiple introduction events.
We strongly recommend that carefully adapted and systematic long term monitoring designs may be set in order to detect introduction events that can lead to rapid establishment and growing populations.
This indicates that introduction events of GE-oilseed rape are still a rather rare event in the country and seem to happen predominantly in its important entry points of imported goods, like the Basel area.
Although only three introduction events into South Africa have been recorded (the earliest in 1858), as of 1998 L. camara was found in over 2 million ha (total area), with a condensed area of about 70,000 ha.
Non-native species generally arise from multiple introduction events.
To account for taxonomic biases among introduction events, we included species, genus, family, and order as nested random effects.
