Abstract: A railway car (100) for placing long rails onto a railway platform, includes a rear end (200) hitched to a rail transport car and a front end (400) and further including, on the rear end (200) thereof, at least one element (202a, 202b) for longitudinally removing a rail from a rail storage arranged on the rail transport car and at least one first element for driving the rail such as to move the rail to the front of the car. The first drive element takes up the rail between two motor-driven tracked trains, each including a tracked belt sent between two wheels, the tracked trains being provided such as to take a relative position in which the tracked belts face each other and the axles of the wheels are vertical.

Abstract: A method for constructing a railway track (VI) on a bed (5), includes: removing at least one rail (R12) in front of a train used to store and lay rails, in the axis of the train, using removal elements secured to the train, the train being stopped on a first, already constructed, portion of the track under construction; and moving the at least one rail at least indirectly onto cross-members of the track under construction, so as to construct a second portion of the track as an extension of the first portion. A method for constructing a first and second railway track on a bed, and a method in which a first track portion and then a second track portion are alternately constructed with the same train used to store and lay rails while moving forward along an already constructed portion of a first track, are also described.

Abstract: A method for constructing at least one railway track (V1, V2) on a platform (5), wherein the permanent crosspieces are placed at the substantially permanent site thereof essentially through the use of railway vehicles (20, 30, 40). Crosspiece deposits are pre-formed on the platform (5) and along at least one track to be constructed (V1, V2) via railway vehicles. The method also includes the placement of rails on the crosspieces. The rails are pushed in front of a placement car for the first track (V1) and are deposited by sliding same out of a rail storage and placement train in a direction to the rear of the train and skewed in relation to the axis of the train for the second track (V2).

Abstract: Described herein is an embodiment for administering two or more funds or one or more funds and one or more separate account portfolios, where each fund or portfolio is managed using a common investment process. The funds may have different management and distribution fees and may have different investor eligibility requirements. The fee structure may be accomplished through a fund of funds or holding company structure. Also described is an embodiment for investment management wherein funds and separate account portfolios using a common investment process exchange their shares or units and baskets of their securities to accommodate entry and exit of investors while protecting ongoing investors from the cost of such entries and exits and to accommodate investors paying different fees and expenses.

Abstract: A system and method for ETF investing that provides a primary exchange traded fund (PETF) that comprises a plurality of shares, wherein the primary exchange traded fund comprises investments in a plurality of secondary exchange traded funds (SETF). The system and method enable intraday, or other periodic, trading of a variable number and type of ETFs through a single ETF, based on one or more categories and factors including, but not limited to, real-time NAVs.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for trading financial instruments are described herein. A first order to buy or sell a financial instrument is received, where the first order includes at least one contingency. The contingency may be price-based and/or volume-based. For example, the contingency can be based on a volume-weighted average price of the security (VWAP); a time-weighed average price of the security (TWAP); a target trading volume of the security as a percentage of total market volume during a specified period (TVOL); or a net asset value (NAV) of the security. The first order is matched with a corresponding second order. For example, a bid for a given security is matched with an offer for the same security. This matching operation also includes ensuring that the contingency(ies) of the first order are compatible with the contingency(ies) of the second order.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing and trading an investment fund having a portfolio including any combination of financial instruments and cash and having a general class of fund shares tradable in a secondary market. In the disclosed processes, assets enter and are removed from the investment fund through an exchange-traded fund share creation and redemption process governed by a set of rules. An intra-day fund share net asset value proxy based on a fund portfolio is distributed through electronic quotation vendors during the trading day at a specified interval. Notices of intention to create or redeem shares of the redeemable share class received by a specified time result in implementing the creation or redemption of shares at a net asset value determined after the notices are received. These features protect ongoing investors in the fund from costs of fund share trading by entering and leaving shareholders.