Templeton, which runs a huge fund-management operation from Singapore, had to clear several hurdles just to sell its global fund to Singaporean investors, even though the fund is a collection of smaller funds, many of which are managed in Singapore.

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The Pimco High Income Fund is a closed-end collection of junk bonds, bought on margin.

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Macclesfield have already launched a number of fund-raising initiatives, and will stage their first bucket collection at their Boxing Day derby with Stockport.

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Johnson bought most of his art in 1998, when he learned that a significant body of work, the Barnett-Aden collection, was for sale by the Florida Education Fund, along with the building where the art was housed, the National Museum of African American Art, in Tampa.

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Relations with major financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund have improved, particularly in the light of more effective revenue collection -- up by about a half following the introduction of a consumption tax last year.

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Keen to have these works inspire new scholarship, Mr. Jaffe decided to fund an Indo-Pacific gallery for his alma mater, endow a curatorship and promise a collection that now totals 700 pieces.

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Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .

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