E*Trade, the online stockbroker, lets its customers buy any of 5,200 funds electronically, some with sales loads and some without, and offers a feature called PowerSearch to help them choose suitable funds.
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
Sutcliffe admits, though, that it would be difficult to develop a suitable funding model as families could be subjected to means-testing and there is disagreement over whether national governing bodies, government-funded sports organisations or local authorities should provide the money.
"However, this would be dependent on working with relevant boroughs and identifying suitable funding.
For a broader list of suitable funds for the inevitable down market, look at Forbes annual Honor Rolll of mutual funds.
We searched our fund database for suitable funds that performed above average in a down market but which also showed good performance if the markets remained strong throughout the year.
Since their original description and involvement as primary resources in human gene discovery [ 1], ESTs grow exponentially in various public databases, which will continue till there is suitable funding for the sequencing projects.
The strategy put forward here for FAO-FI is dependent on the availability of suitable funding, both Regular Programme and extra budgetary, and changes in the anticipated budget or failure to secure the required extra-budgetary funds will require appropriate modification of the strategy.
Its other key role is to vet businesses to see if they are suitable for funding by the Growth Fund.
It said the card offered an affordable alternative for customers as it gave 27 months' interest-free credit up to a limit that Sainsbury's believed was suitable for funding parts of doing up a home in an affordable, responsible way.
