"I don't get much push back from people who are operating good funds," he said.

Employers often operate funds of this type for the benefit of their employees.

Both companies solely operate no-load funds, which bypass brokers and commissions and are sold directly to individual investors.

Was the school's physical plant allowed to deteriorate through administrative mismanagement or because of Howard's need for operating funds?

Those indexes are generated by companies that advise investors and operate funds.

Banks could then sell stock, underwrite bonds and operate mutual funds, activities from which they are now proscribed.

One concerns $3.2 billion in capital funds set aside by Congress but not yet released, and the others are operating funds, layoff protections and rules on liability.

In 1986 Meritor began operating mutual funds through a subsidiary, completing the transition to a full-service financial institution.

The Blue funds operate much the way traditional socially screened funds do, eliminating companies they regard as having poor environmental records, for example.

Morale in the department is extremely low as Burrell cuts operating funds as instructed.