The evidence shows systematic under-investment in human capital, inadequate attention to institutional capital, and over-exploitation of natural capital.
But this influx of institutional capital toward among large funds is forcing a temporary step backwards on the way data is collected, managed, analyzed and monitored.
According to the Cleantech Group, only 2% of global institutional venture capital was focused on smart water investments.
Institutional venture capital is largely a North American and Northern European phenomenon, but wealthy individuals and conglomerates mobilize investment funds across the globe.
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William Lacey, managing director of institutional research at FirstEnergy Capital, expected the announcement.
The certain losers are corporations that depend on retail and institutional investors to raise capital to restore our economy.
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The largest institutional shareholders are venture capital firms Greylock Partners, with 15.2 million shares and New Enterprise Associates, with 13.9 million shares.
Venture capitalists such as Sequoia Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures have funded fellowships and hang out with professors to see what's going on.
One reason is that their usual sources of capital, institutional investors, hitherto often trapped by regulations requiring them to keep a certain proportion of their assets in their domestic currency, are now, thanks to the euro, able to spread their wings.
Under the rules of the fund, institutional and individual investors raising capital in the Chinese currency, the yuan, from offshore markets like Hong Kong will be able to make direct investments in China.
On Friday, the day the pair were supposed to fly home, Zipp sent out e-mail messages on their behalf to five firms: Bessemer Venture Partners, At Ventures (CMGI's venture arm), Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and U.S. Venture Partners.
In May 2011 David Einhorn, president of the hedge fund Greenlight Capital - an institutional investor in Microsoft - said Mr Ballmer should step down as chief executive after IBM and Apple had surpassed Microsoft in terms of market value.
This makes them consistent with other measures to relax restrictions on the capital account such as the expansion of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme, which allows foreigners to bring portfolio investment capital into China but only in a carefully regulated manner.
Institutional investors can buy bonds for capital gains, but retail investors buy bonds for income.
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With one exception, all the large banks and life insurance companies (which were the major institutional source of long-term capital in those days) survived.
Other forecasters, such as the Washington-based Institute of International Finance, which represents banks and other institutional investors, also expect private capital flows in 1999 to remain close to their levels of 1998.
The lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others sketches a similar conspiracy, in which securities firms--with the help of big institutional customers including Fidelity and Janus Capital--are accused of taking advantage of Internet fever to drive up the price of newly issued shares in the aftermarket.
The lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others sketches a similar conspiracy, in which securities firms--with the help of big institutional customers including Fidelity and Janus Capital (nyse: JNS - news - people )--are accused of taking advantage of Internet fever to drive up the price of newly issued shares in the aftermarket.
Institutional owners that reduced their positions included Bain Capital and J.
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Institutional investors such as pension funds regard European venture capital as a bad asset class.
Nevertheless, the need for shareholder liquidity beckons, particularly for banks such as First NBC that have raised capital from private equity firms and other institutional investors.
Merrill's individual investors business, the Private Client Services division, won't hold back its stock price when investment banking firms like Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and other institutional broker-dealers snapback amid a pickup in capital markets and merger and acquisition activity.
New investors Adams Street Partners and Tenaya Capital led the round, with existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures.participating.
Over the next two days, Morgan Stanley and the other underwriters called their top institutional clients, including mutual-fund giants Fidelity and Capital Research and Management, saying their analysts had lowered Facebook's earnings and revenue estimates, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The vast majority of capital going into private-equity funds comes from institutional investors of various kinds.
Bricks and mortar are needed, but so are knowledge networks and institutional capacities, which rely on social, cultural and intellectual capital.
The largest institutional shareholders, which should see major returns, are venture capital firms Greylock Partners, with 15.2 million shares and New Enterprise Associates, with 13.9 million shares.
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Yet even if some institutional investors felt let down, Facebook's early venture-capital investors were jazzed.
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