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One of these is the Tekla World Healthcare Fund (THW), which will be the investment discussed in the remainder of this article ... Now, let us take a look at the Tekla World Healthcare Fund, as a way to play these trends ... One way that investors can play these trends while generating a solid income is by investing in the Tekla World Healthcare Fund, ......

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Previse to bolster Scottish teams as it seals $7m funding

Scotsman 20 Aug 2018

A fast-growing fintech business which aims to tackle late payment issues for small firms plans to increase its workforce in Glasgow and Edinburgh on the back of a $7 million (£5.5m) funding round announced today ... With this funding, we will be able to grow our model to meet this demand and ensure that every supplier in the world has the option to be paid instantly.”....

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After the Financial Crisis, A Decade of Damage

The New Republic 20 Aug 2018

How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, his ambitious study of the causes and effects of the financial meltdown that caused the Great Recession ... Mutual funds pull back from investing and banks face an immediate shortage of funding. World lending begins to freeze altogether ... The entire world economic system is on the edge of collapse.CRASHED....

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Greece exits final bailout successfully – ESM

Irish Independent 20 Aug 2018

Greece has successfully exited its final, three-year bailout programme, agreed in August 2015 to help it cope with the continued fallout from a debt crisis, the euro zone's European Stability Mechanism rescue fund said on Monday. https.//www.independent.ie/business/world/greece-exits-final-bailout-successfully-esm-37231993.html....

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Kroger Named to Fortune Magazine's Change the World 2018 List

Market Watch 20 Aug 2018

KR, +0.11% announced today it has been named to Fortune magazine's Change the World 2018 list, debuting in the sixth spot ... In 2017, Kroger donated 325 million meals, combined in food and funds, to help end hunger in its communities through its Zero Hunger ... The grocery retailer also conducted a detailed food waste analysis in partnership with World Wildlife Fund to establish a baseline for achieving zero food waste by 2025....

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Pi Ventures raises $6 million from UK’s CDC Group

Live Mint 20 Aug 2018

The fund will be used to invest in start-ups with deep-tech capabilities, or ventures building products using technologies such as AI and machine learning, pi Ventures said ... “CDC’s confidence fuels our vision to find, fund and support the best teams who are using artificial intelligence to solve real world problems,” said Manish Singhal, founding partner, pi Ventures....

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Elon Musk Tells Arianna Huffington He Can't Change His Workaholic Ways in 2:30 a.m. Tweet

Yahoo Daily News 20 Aug 2018

The chief executive officer rebutted a post from digital-media mogul Arianna Huffington, who had urged him to take time off lest he fall short of his ambitions to change the world ... 7 tweet suggesting he’d secured funding to take the firm private at $420 a share ... Musk’s already chaotic world blew up again when he tweeted this month that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private....

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$1bn healthcare fund separated: The source of Abraaj’s problems resolved?

AME Info 20 Aug 2018

Abraaj’s string of misfortune all started when in February, the private equity firm was accused of mishandling a $1 billion healthcare fund ... $1bn healthcare fund separated ... The four investors who backed the Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, Proparco Group of France and the UK’s CDC Group....

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Trump’s choice for science advisor should be confirmed

The Hill 20 Aug 2018

In fact, government funding of basic science crowds out that of the private sector ... science was non-governmentally funded until World War II—but it was in this era that the U.S. economy overtook those of the rest of the world ... basic science R&D, the federal government’s share of funding is now below 50 percent, being increasingly displaced by private industry support, as well as direct university support....

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Gold investors ‘give up hope’ as biggest short in history builds

Live Mint 20 Aug 2018

Hedge funds and other large speculators increased net-short bets on the precious metal in the week ending 14 August to the most on record, according to data published Friday going back to 2006. While investors in the world’s largest ETF market have pulled $1.4 billion from gold-backed funds this year, it’s a different story for non-dollar-based buyers in the rest of the world....

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Eaton Partners Acts as Exclusive Placement Agent for SDC Capital Partners

Stockhouse 20 Aug 2018

20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eaton Partners, one of the world’s largest placement agents and advisory firms and a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp ... Eaton Partners, a Stifel Company, is one of the world’s leading fund advisory and capital placement agents, having raised more than $95 billion across more than 120 highly differentiated alternative investment funds and offerings....

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Elon Musk says changing his way of working is not an option

The Jakarta Post 20 Aug 2018

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Top 6 Industries That Use ICOs to Raise Funds

LB News 20 Aug 2018

Some industries prevail among ventures that choose ICO as the main source of funding or even build their business on the blockchain technology ... This sounds disappointing, but now we have a new way to fund a company – an Initial Coin Offering or simply ICO ... Lastly, such an approach saves funds of asset managers — according to Calastone, the whole trading world could save $2.7BN per day using blockchain....

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