Lone Star Investment Advisors LLC is a private equity fund that invests in Texas companies located in, or willing to move to, low-income census tracts. The fund’s managers have focused on manufacturing and distribution companies that can create jobs in the state’s lower-income communities.
Austria had already started in the late 1980s to develop extensive economic ties with the transition economies, which have increased substantially over time. Strong trade linkages, very high levels of foreign direct investment and support for their integration into either the EU or other international institutions have been mainstays of Austria ‘s policies towards the transition economies.