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History. The firm's origin dates back to 1947, when investor Jack Dreyfus founded a brokerage house in New York City named Dreyfus & Co. In 1951, attracted by the concept of mutual funds, Dreyfus & Co. purchased a small management company named John G. Nesbett & Co., Inc. with a small common stock fund called The Nesbett Fund Incorporated.
According to Barron's Magazine end of Century issue, Jack Dreyfus was considered the 2nd most significant money manager of the last century. Dreyfus married in 1939 Joan Personette, from whom he was divorced; they had one child, John (Jonny). His paternal grandfather was a first cousin of Alfred Dreyfus, the protagonist of the French 19th ...
A mutual fund is an investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV in Europe ('investment company with variable capital'), and the open-ended investment company (OEIC) in the UK.
Howard Mathew Stein (October 6, 1926 – July 26, 2011) [1] was an American financier who is widely considered one of the fathers of the mutual fund industry. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine on August 24, 1970. [2] Stein invented the first "no load" money market fund and created the first tax-free municipal bond fund.
Mellon Financial Corporation was an American investment firm which was once one of the world's largest money management firms. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was in the business of institutional and high-net-worth individual asset management, including the Dreyfus family of mutual funds, business banking, and shareholder and investor ...
Walter Scott. Website. www .bnymellonim .com. BNY Mellon Investment Management (also known as BNY Mellon IM and BNY Mellon Asset Management) is the investment management division of BNY Mellon. It is one of the largest asset managers in the world.
Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller (born June 14, 1953) [1] is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist and former hedge fund manager. He is the former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. He closed the fund in August 2010, [2] at which time it had over $12 billion in assets.
Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. ( LDC) is a French merchant firm that is involved in agriculture, food processing, international shipping, and finance. The company owns and manages hedge funds, ocean vessels, develops and operates telecommunications infrastructures, and it is also involved in real estate development, management and ownership. [1]