As a result, we suggest that a
specialty fund should be more likely to balance the risk in its portfolio towards stocks based on established technologies.
None of these ranks in the top 100 venture investors in high technology and life sciences, although DFJ Element is a
specialty fund founded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the third most active high-tech and life science venture capitalist.
At this point, unless you're a bond fund or
specialty fund, you're down," he says.
It is a simple thesis to construct, and advisors who prefer to avoid this risk have ETF choices beyond broad market-cap-weighted funds in the form of
specialty funds that use alternative or rules-based index weightings, funds that focus on themes or sectors, individual country funds and actively managed ETFs that are able to avoid potential trouble spots.
Like its five predecessor funds, Fund VI will continue TriGuard s multi-niche investment strategy in tertiary liquidity, consortia carve-outs and strips,
specialty funds, small transactions, seasoned tail-ends and fund manager liquidity.
This art investment house with $100 million under management offers a fine arts fund and various geographic
specialty funds focusing on Chinese, Indian, and Middle Eastern art.
Raise sufficient funds to enable our aggressive drilling program to be maintained into 2012, with at least some of the funds coming from one or more respected resource
specialty funds.
In addition to his nine steps Eberhart provides a chapter on learning before investing which includes topics on the basic classification of funds the most frequently seen funds
specialty funds of various kinds a comparison of different funds an example of his own fund management process and a note about arbitration.
Indeed, the SBA has a rich history supporting
specialty funds, such as the New Markets Venture Capital program I've been managing for the past five years.
So the development of
specialty funds for an industry that has been set as a national-priority growth area seems a natural extension of that process.
