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RSS fundsDeclining Required Reserves, Funds Rate Volatility, and Open Market Operations
White Paper In the 1990s, there was a significant decline in the level of reserve balances in the U.S.accompanied at first by an increase in the funds rate volatility. The standard view of the monetary transmission mechanism rests on the central bank's ability... [22 Jun 2005]
TCS OptimizeIT: Benchmark, Release Funds, Leverage Value
White Paper From this Opportunities for Improvement (OFIs) are identified which allow the release of funds from 'quick wins', whilst 'big ticket' propositions identify longer term improvements which sustain growth and competitiveness. [06 Dec 2007]
Cap Gemini to use XML-based system to trade funds
News Cap Gemini is using XML technology to set up a Europe-wide system for the trading of mutual funds - a market it claims will be worth £6.5bn by 2003. The consultancy is joining up with AssureWeb, the European Fund and Administration, and Microsoft... [26 Jan 2000]
Hedge funds to spend $3.3bn on tech
News Hedge funds are ramping up their use of technology to cope with increased financial regulations and lower profit margins. The analyst said hedge funds will use technology to improve execution time.silicon.com Financial Services [31 Aug 2006]
Structural Funds, EU Enlargement, and the Redistribution of FDI in Europe
White Paper The envisaged EU enlargements will lead to a redirection of Structural and Cohesion Funds expenditures from current to new EU-members. This redistribution of funds makes the accession countries even more attractive as a location of FDI. [24 Jun 2005]
Assessing the Administration's Claims That Extending $1.1 Billion in Expiring SCHIP Funds Is Not Necessary to Sustain Existing Children's Enrollment
White Paper The Administration claims it is not necessary to maintain the availability of the nearly $1.1 billion in federal SCHIP funds for covering currently enrolled children, because there already is sufficient federal SCHIP funding for this purpose. [20 May 2005]
Measuring Monetary Policy Inertia in Target Fed Funds Rate Changes
White Paper This article presents two distinct measures of inertia in the target fed funds rate, relative to the prescriptions of Taylor’s (1993) policy rule, including the inertia inherent in the discreteness of the target fed funds rate. [25 Feb 2004]
Should Investors Avoid All Actively Managed Mutual Funds?- a Study in Bayesian Performance Evaluation
White Paper We study the one-period portfolio allocation problem for a mean-variance investor choosing from a risk-free asset, benchmark assets (passively managed index funds) and non-benchmark assets (actively managed mutual funds). [25 Feb 2004]
Has the Unified Budget Undermined the Federal Government Trust Funds?
White Paper The empirical evidence suggests that attempts to balance the Unified Budget while the trust funds were generating surpluses has led to increased government spending and personal and corporation income tax cuts within the rest of the federal... [22 Dec 2004]
Franchise Funds in the Federal Government: Ending the Monopoly in Service Provision
White Paper This report provides an evaluation of the franchise funds authorized in 1994 under the Government Management Reform Act, with particular emphasis on the Office of Federal Occupational Health (OFOH) in the Department of Health and Human Services. [28 Dec 2004]
MCD-Soft and Siemens Nixdorf Osteuropa GmbH Chose Advantage Ingres to Design and Implement a Mutual Investment Funds Service System
White Paper MCD-Soft needed to develop a mission-critical application and decision support system to manage the increasing number of mutual investment funds on the Russian stock market. Working together, they developed the Mutual Investment Funds Service... [25 Feb 2004]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment Private equity funds have many similarities in their demands for technology tools and financial data with venture capital firms, which fund enterprises at an earlier stage in their growth and development. [20 Aug 2007]
Namibian Banking Industry Cuts Cost of Holding Uncleared Funds With New System
White Paper The solution, which places Namclear and the Namibian banking industry ahead of their competitors in Africa, has substantially reduced the cost of holding uncleared funds overnight in the Namibian banking system. [01 Jan 2007]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News The Trust is in talks with the National Lottery Fund and others to secure funding and Greenish is confident the funds can be raised. Historic Bletchley Park needs a financial helping hand to save several buildings used by World War II code breakers. [30 May 2008]
Pension funds urged to back IT start-ups
News The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has accused pension funds of dragging their feet on venture capital investment for IT start-ups. The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) says its members want to invest in UK start-ups, but... [20 Dec 1998]
