"We at the World Bank Group are working with our development partners to identify and leverage the funds needed to invest in infrastructure, and these conversations are continuing, " he said.
You might be able to leverage the funds for your micro business or small company to buy equipment or inventory or hire a person to help you grow to the next level.
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The Investment Company Act guards against overuse of leverage in mutual funds to protect retail investors.
Green banks can and should be set up as public private partnerships, allowing further leverage of government funds.
Push the fast trading and high leverage to hedge funds which fail at a rather regular rate with little or not impact on the wider economy.
Some examples of Recovery Act programs that leverage other investment funds are tax credits for advanced energy manufacturing, loan guarantees for small businesses, and interest subsidies for state and local borrowing to finance essential infrastructure projects.
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Excess liquidity plus ever more leverage are enabling equity funds to buy out almost any publicly held company.
In any case, the leverage available to hedge funds and private equity is largely a function of banks' willingness to lend.
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The best yielding funds use leverage and borrow at very low short-term rates in order to buy more bonds to increase their yields.
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After all, loans remain one of the few asset classes that offer retail investors relatively wide distributions, with open-end funds paying yields of 4.5-5% and closed-end funds that use leverage paying 6-7%.
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However, there is a danger that if short-term interest rates increase the leverage would be more expensive to implement, meaning that some funds will have to sell off bonds and reduce leverage.
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But hedge funds have much less leverage than the big banks and the industry is much less concentrated.
His approach is to estimate volatility using an EGARCH model and employ leveraged funds to adjust portfolio leverage.
All this has been bad news for bears, especially those, such as hedge funds, that use leverage to increase their bets.
Many funds use borrowed money to leverage higher returns, but that can cause the price to collapse if managers are forced to cut the dividend.
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The Fed's information-sharing agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission is not enough, and Geithner did not believe direct regulation of hedge funds is practical, but tighter supervision of the amount of risk taken on by lending to hedge funds could help prevent excessive leverage.
Inflation made playing with leverage even more enticing for hedge and equity funds.
These facts, and the possibility that the defendant could get a contempt-of-court citation for failing to disgorge funds from offshore accounts, give plaintiffs some leverage.
"We often advise our funds, especially those with swaps or high leverage, to organize as an offshore vehicle for U.S. investors because of the tax advantages, " he says.
Then, in July 1997, the Asian Crisis hit, and everyone looked on in horror as hot money from global hedge funds, fueled by the steroid of high leverage, brought the economies of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to their knees, first creating asset bubbles when it flowed in, and then causing the local currencies to collapse when it was suddenly withdrawn.
Equity financed mutual funds are, thus, small banks with zero leverage (debt).
Now, while the public would be ill-advised to leverage its positions, there may have been ETFs or mutual funds loaded with mortgages that turned in positive returns.
Japanese investors holding Brazil debt through Toshin funds are long term investors who do not use leverage and are in no rush to liquidate in times of economic crisis.
The worry is exacerbated by the high leverage (ie, use of borrowed money) of many hedge funds: this boosts returns on good days but magnifies losses too.
For those of us who do not relish leveraged funds, the vovo approach also works when restricted to a maximum leverage of one.
Because hedge funds are unregulated, managers are free to sell short, use leverage, and invest in illiquid securities--activities not open to mutual-fund managers.
Rather than diversifying into dozens of stocks, the firms funds typically hold a paltry 5-7 companies, with no leverage and no short positions.
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The less than spectacular performance of many funds might encourage managers to take extra risks--assuming more leverage, for example--but "now is not the time to start swinging for the fences, " Gradante said.
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