Meanwhile, Calpers and its cross-country cousin, the New York State Common Fund, reportedly have been heavily influenced by political considerations in selecting private equity managers.
Now that Ahmadinejad has visited these Latin American countries, reports talk about expanding economic relations between Venezuela and Iran , and a common fund to help developing countries.
Some have almost no direct exposure to the euro area Standard Chartered, for instance, does most of its business in Asia, Africa and the Middle East yet fret they may be called upon to contribute to a common fund when they have virtually no European deposits.
Highland Council had been a previous operator of the firm, which puts a chunk of its profits into the Tain Common Good Fund.
The Barroso proposal aims to quickly create a common bailout fund backed by levies on the eurozone banks, skirting the need for direct fiscal transfers.
"Qualcomm agrees with the New York State Common Retirement Fund that increased transparency for election-related activities by corporations is very beneficial, " said Paul Jacobs, chief executive and chairman.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who oversees the New York State Common Retirement Fund, said "we were disappointed" that Apple didn't offer a plan to deliver cash to shareholders.
On Thursday, Mr. Hevesi said Mr. Morris "steered Common Retirement Fund investments to friends and political associates" and solicited campaign contributions for his re-election as comptroller from people doing business with the fund.
In June, most European leaders appeared to have understood that they would, as a last resort, allow their common bailout fund to step in directly to save ailing banks, thereby cutting out the need for national governments to do so.
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In March of last year Hank Morris and David Loglisci, were charged with 123 counts, including bribery, grand larceny and money laundering in an indictment that said they had turned New York State Common Retirement Fund into a criminal enterprise and netted the conspirators tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks.
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Many argue the euro zone's survival now depends on rapid moves towards full political and fiscal union, with a single European banking supervisor, a common deposit guarantee fund and resolution fund, a central European treasury operation and common issuance of bonds a formidably high hurdle.
And a common deposit-insurance fund could also credibly reduce the risk of bank runs in vulnerable countries.
Nor does she grasp at bigger themes or the many common factors that hedge-fund managers share.
Perhaps the most common SRI strategy practiced by fund managers is screening.
Instead, investors might be better advised to jettison a common tenet of pension-fund investment that liabilities must be matched by assets in the same country.
About the only thing the two hedge fund managers have in common: federal probes forced them to shut down their respective investment firms.
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His original idea for a common European bank bail-out fund was dropped in the face of German resistance to being seen to pay for others.
The fund alleged breaches of common law and insufficient pilot training.
Three years ago, he introduced a profit-sharing scheme under which each firm contributes a third of profits to a common bonus-pool, and fund management is run globally from New York.
Another ETF with many of these holdings in common is the First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund ( FXZ).
Gap years, taken between leaving school and starting university, are also becoming a more common way of earning money to help fund students through university, the survey found.
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The second common thread is their unabashed respect for index fund investing.
Given the reliance on cash flow to fund dividends, be careful not to overlap common stock holdings with preferred stock holdings.
The idea was simple: take the portfolios of the longtime star fund managers and see which stocks they have in common.
The fund currently has most of its funds invested in the common stock of financials.
It is now common knowledge that participants in these plans have been getting fleeced by mutual fund companies and other service providers for over three decades, yet there has been no meaningful governmental or regulatory response.
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In other words, the longer than 1-year holding period, the return of 100% of the initial capital to the limited partners, and the full and equal risk that managers take alongside their limited partners (plus it is common for the managers to put some of their own money into the fund) all justify carried interest treatment as a capital gain.
He wanted to know whether it was common for investors to have as hard a time getting their money out of a hedge fund as he was having.
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Scottish Labour MSP Claudia Beamish said to combat climate change required a common endeavour to help all the most vulnerable on earth and she welomed the Climate Justice Fund.
In addition to relying on common sense, investors also need to do some of their own homework to gauge whether a fund and its investment manager are trustworthy.
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