Highland Council had been a previous operator of the firm, which puts a chunk of its profits into the Tain Common Good Fund.
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.
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.
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.
The fund alleged breaches of common law and insufficient pilot training.
Another ETF with many of these holdings in common is the First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund ( FXZ).
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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The second common thread is their unabashed respect for index fund investing.
And a common deposit-insurance fund could also credibly reduce the risk of bank runs in vulnerable countries.
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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The fund currently has most of its funds invested in the common stock of financials.
The idea was simple: take the portfolios of the longtime star fund managers and see which stocks they have in common.
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.
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.
Given the reliance on cash flow to fund dividends, be careful not to overlap common stock holdings with preferred stock holdings.
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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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.
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.
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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We certainly hope that we are able to continue to fund the government without drama, and focus on the challenge of trying to see if common ground can be occupied by both Republicans and Democrats when it comes to reducing our deficit in a balanced way.
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.
Other common sense changes from No Labels include requiring political parties, not the taxpayers, to pay for presidential fund-raising trips, allowing the President a form of line item veto, and giving the President power to re-organize government agencies.
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