For investors, there's the chance to pool their money to enter some high-performance funds.
"People get to see a concert, they get to pool their money and do something big, " says Schervish.
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He says that staff work under difficult conditions and that last Christmas some had to pool their money together to buy cake and cookies for the elderly residents.
And they each want to buy a Nook tablet soon, although there is a small dispute: Ryan would like to pool his money with his brother and buy a more expensive, color one.
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Crowdfunding is exactly like it sounds: a collective effort from any number of people to network and pool money and other resources together to support a common effort.
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But, for the avoidance of doubt, eurozone members have not merged their financial resources to provide a single pool of money to rescue banks, or to insure depositors against losses.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended solely to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
Goodell alleged that Fujita pledged a "particularly large sum of money" to the bounty pool during the 2009 postseason, with the reward money going to any player who could knock an opponent out of the game.
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His return to jail centers on a pool of money that appears to have been donated to Zimmerman through a website he set up to help with a legal defense fund.
Venture capital firms gather money from individuals, often wealthy individuals, and use this large pool of money to invest in a variety of companies whose goal is often to go public.
In the latest negotiations, NFL owners have agreed in principle to expand the pool of money that players get a cut from.
In a public-goods experiment, each member of a group of subjects is given a financial stake and asked to use this money to contribute to a common pool.
General managers would be given a pool of money to sign their picks to contracts.
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The TARP, initially positioned as a pool of money to purchase toxic mortgage assets from banks, was ultimately used to inject capital directly into financial institutions in return for preferred equity stakes.
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That statute says that a company that sells securities to the public and then turns around and invests that money in a pool of securities is a mutual fund and subject to a comprehensive mutual fund regulatory scheme.
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Given that there is only a finite pool of investors willing to put their money into venture funds, would Europe be better off investing in only half the number of startups, but giving them far more money?
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"The objective of the Unclaimed Assets Register is very simply to pool together all the vast amount of money to make it easy for those people who are entitled to it to recover that money, " Keith Hollander founder of the Unclaimed Assets Register.
In a 401(k) world, investment risk is no longer borne by the employer, who has trained, professional money managers at his disposal to diversify, create a huge portfolio and do actuarial scenarios to see if the money in the pool will last a long time.
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Users of the service pool money with like-minded investors to make commercial real estate investments that are otherwise difficult to access.
Traditionally Coors and Anheuser-Busch have used their own pallets, but CHEP is trying to convince them that using its rental pool will save money.
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As more small investors pool their money, knowledge and connections to dig up more and better deals, at least 170 angel groups now do business in the U.S., says Sohl, compared with a handful five years ago.
Later, as the brand grew more established, and as the number of writers in his stable increased, he settled on a new payment scheme: twelve dollars a post, with a pool of bonus money paid out according to the number of page views generated.
As with health insurance rates, the FDIC's premiums change if it has to settle claims or if it insures a larger pool of money.
Funds, therefore, are created as a means to aggregate these individual sums of money into a single pool which can be managed efficiently and effectively.
You know, everything from more money to more servants, to a swimming pool, great local work culture, food, work life balance, traveling more, feeling welcome at work and to having your kids play more sports, eat less junk food, spend more time with you, fit in and learn a new language?
If oil and gas revenue begins to decline, economists say one big problem will be how to sort out all the competing claims for the limited pool of money.
He looks at an industry as a defined pool of money, with the goal of strategy being to figure out how to get the biggest share of that money and keep others from getting it.
Now, some heirs of Charles H. and Lida Tompkins, the founders of the company that built the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial and other Washington landmarks, want to move their money again.
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