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The New World Foundation is a left-wing foundation, [1] based in New York. [2] It supports organizations that work on behalf of civil rights and that seek to encourage participation of citizens in American democracy. [3] It was founded in 1954 by Anita McCormick Blaine, a prominent member of the McCormick family and an heiress to industrialist ...
Bridgewater Associates, LP (informally known as "Bridgewater") [5] is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. The firm serves institutional clients including pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign governments, and central banks. As of 2022, Bridgewater has posted the second highest gains of any hedge fund ...
The selection of Diong, a dual U.S. citizen, marks a major milestone in the operationalization of the new World Bank-administered fund, whose creation in 2022 was a breakthrough for developing ...
James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. [ 4 ] At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 51st-richest person in the world. [ 4 ] He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge ...
Pax World launched the first socially responsible mutual fund in the United States in 1971. [1] The company was founded by Luther Tyson [2] and Jack Corbett, [3] both of whom had worked on peace, housing and employment issues for the United Methodist Church. Their vehicle, the first broadly diversified, publicly available mutual fund to use ...
State Street Global Advisors, the asset management division of State Street Corporation, was founded in 1978 [6] in Boston, Massachusetts. Its first three products were a domestic index fund, an international index fund (based on the MSCI EAFE index), and a short-term investment fund. [7] By 1989 the division had $53 billion (USD) in assets ...
List of Tiger Cubs (finance) The Tiger Cubs are a group of former Tiger Management employees who have since founded their own hedge funds. In addition, there are hedge funds that Tiger Management founder Julian Robertson has invested in known as "Tiger Seeds". Many of the Tiger Cubs are also Tiger Seeds.
WisdomTree, Inc. is a global exchange-traded fund (ETF) and exchange-traded product (ETP) sponsor and asset manager with headquarters in New York. WisdomTree launched its first ETFs in June 2006, and became one of the major ETF providers in the United States. [4][5] WisdomTree sponsors different ETFs that span asset classes and countries worldwide.