What is a slush fund?
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A pool of money that is not earmarked for a specific purpose.  In many large businesses and gov't organizations, there are accounts for certain expenses (say office supplies, payroll, overhead, travel, etc.) and the money that is in those accounts has to be documented to have gone to something fitting the purpose it has been established for.\n\nSlush funds are excess funds that are not specifically meant for any one purpose in particular.  The money usually comes from small, random deposits and is kept on hand for unique situations that may arise.  \n\nWhere I work, the profit from the vending machines goes into a slush fund for company activities like a picnic or holiday party.  Things we can't use normal business income for.\n\nHere is a "real" definition...
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Reliance can be a good option because the fund liquidity is maximum as they provide you ATM cum Debit card, from where you can get your money refunded anytime.
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You know there is a minimum amount you have to invest in money market funds. Probably at least 18,000 pounds or 10,000 US
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I've seen sites that search state by state. Do a search for "unclaimed funds"
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A savings account that provides bank depositors with many of the advantages of a money market fund. Certain regulatory restrictions apply to the withdrawal of funds from a money market account.\n\nA money market fund is a mutual fund that allows individuals to participate in managed investments in short-term debt securities, such as certificates of deposit and Treasury bills.
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(m)\n\nOverdraft - The amount by which withdrawals exceed deposits, or the extension of credit by a lending institution to allow for such a situation. \n\ncash credit - A short-term cash loan to a company. \n\n\nThe difference is very subtle and relates to the operation of the account. In the case of Cash Credit, a proper limit is sanctioned which normally is a certain percentage of the value of the commodities/debts pledged by the account holder with the Bank. Overdraft, on the other hand, is allowed against a host of other securities including financial instruments like shares, units of mutual funds, surrender value of LIC policy and debentures etc. Some overdrafts are even granted against the perceived "worth" of an individual. Such overdrafts are called clean overdrafts.
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The Army College  Fund is money added to your GI Bill but you only get this money if you got it when you enlisted, such as an enlistment bonus.  It is not something you get just for being in the Army.
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Go to CA state website...you will find listing of all retained funds. You will have to provide serious proof of ownership. Make sure there are no outstanding warrants for your arrest.
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I'd say the National Lottery, but I'd be very surprised if you find any that will get you the grant within 3 months - they normally require applications further in advice.  How about the local town or county councils?  They normally have an arts fund.
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deymond: You're right.  I didn't really bother researching the fund.  I read it as they were returning money to investors on April 28 and shutting down the fund, not closing the fund to new money.\n\nIf they're just closing the fund to new funds, that's usually a good thing.  It means they've got more money than they know what to do with and that's usually a sign of a fund that's doing well.
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Instead of starting a fund, why not donate and publicize funds that already exist to help people in the republic of georgia?\n\nhere is one:\nhttp://www.farusa.org/
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Forbes magazine has annual lists of top producing funds, and their managers. Money magazine also does this. You can also go to Morningstar's web site (same name) and they also rank performance. One thing that I have heard and read over and over again is that you want to find a fund that has good history not only with the fund managers, but also their assistants.
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I don't know of any funds that are a pure play on industrial metals.  Go to Yahoo Finance and check out the holdings on the natural resource and basic materials funds.  \n\nTwo funds that come to mind are the BlackRock Global Resource Fund (formerly State Street), symbol SSGRX or the Rydex Basic Materials fund, symbol RYBMX.
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The Foundation Center. They publish a funding directory that many libraries have. Ask the librarian to help you look appropriate funding up. Good luck.
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The Superfund is a fund financed by certain industries to pay for environmental clean-up at contaminated sites around the country, such as the love canal in NY back in the 70's
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LIFO = Last In, First Out.\n\nIt is usually used mostly in accounting.\n\nBut... it can apply to almost anything.  If you have an empty box and you fill it up with rocks when you go to empty it you will removed first the rocks you put into the box last.
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PERS is a working system and one of very few with sufficient funds available.\n\nIt ain't broke, so we better get in there and fix it til it is.\n\nEvery time we get a spender in the Governor's office, they take one look at that big pot of money, begin to salivate, and spend the rest of their term trying to figure out some way to get their hands on it.  Alaska has a thing they call the permanent fund.  It too is a large pot of money whose interest is used to provide Alaskans with an annual check.  The fund was derived from taxes generated during the building of the Alaska pipe line.  Their Governor makes a run at that pot about once a decade.  All we have to do is go to sleep for 30 seconds and one of these bozos will rape these reserves and the state will have the same problem the feds have with social security.