Norfund, Norway’s $4 billion development fund, is seeking allocations to long-term infrastructure and other sectors in the Asia Pacific, as it positions itself as an attractive co-investor for sovereign, institutional and private sector capital. “Public funding is a scarce resource, so the more we work with private markets, the more we can achieve. And we
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has expressed interest in setting up a vending machine for street dogs. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the entrepreneur shared an image of a project in Istanbul that feeds stray dogs. Sharing the same, he wrote, “I will love to fund this, need some
$325,800 Grant from the NYS Housing Trust Fund Corporation Approved for Lead Prevention Pilot Program Last week a resolution approving a $325,800 grant from the NYS Housing Trust Fund Corporation was made available to Rockland County for its Lead Prevention Pilot Program. The funds will be used to pay for lead remediation in buildings built
Eaton Vance New York Municipal Bond Fund (NYSE:ENX – Get Free Report) declared a monthly dividend on Monday, July 1st, Wall Street Journal reports. Investors of record on Tuesday, July 23rd will be paid a dividend of 0.0417 per share on Wednesday, July 31st. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.07%.
Gov. Tina Kotek on Wednesday released a proposal to increase the State School Fund’s current service level estimate for the 2025-27 biennium by $515 million. The State School Fund provides the majority of funding for K-12 public schools. In 2023, the state budgeted $10.2 billion for Oregon schools. The current service level is the state’s estimate of
While waiting for our van to fill with young men from our oldest son’s robotics group, maybe 17 years ago, I marveled at how much prickly pear grew in the yards of Pembroke Township. Pembroke, in southeastern Kankakee County, is one of the nation’s poorest townships, but it’s rich in rare and unusual wild things.
Beijing Fourth Paradigm Technology Co. Ltd. Class H (HK:6682) has released an update. Beijing Fourth Paradigm Technology Co. Ltd. disclosed additional details about their major investment in GaoTeng Overseas Equity No. 3 Private Securities Investment Fund, representing 5.3% of the company’s total assets. The fund, managed by GaoTeng Overseas Private Fund Management, focuses on debt
Even more impressive than running a top-performing mutual fund is overseeing two of them. Ankur Crawford, who co-manages the top-1% Alger Capital Appreciation Fund (ACAAX) and top-3% Alger Spectra Fund (SPECX), has done just that. The two funds are very similar, or “different flavors of the same process,” as Crawford put it in a recent
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The American Indian College Fund announced on Friday it has published Volume 7 of the Tribal College and University Research Journal (TCURJ) featuring articles on a culturally responsive student support model, teachers’ awareness of systemic factors impeding student academic outcomes, and the Diné educational philosophy. The journal is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary academic publication featuring the research and best practices of tribal college and university