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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.

  3. Performance attribution - Wikipedia

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    Performance attribution, or investment performance attribution is a set of techniques that performance analysts use to explain why a portfolio 's performance differed from the benchmark. This difference between the portfolio return and the benchmark return is known as the active return. The active return is the component of a portfolio's ...

  4. Funds transfer pricing - Wikipedia

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    A given fund transfer price will impact the measured performance of business units based on whether such business units are short of funds or have an excess of funds. The key variable which should be considered for setting the fund transfer price is the strategy of the financial institution (i.e. corporate strategy).

  5. Climate change policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal policy See also: Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, Energy policy of the United States, and Environmental policy of the United States Though China has the greatest annual carbon dioxide emissions (area of its rectangle), the U.S. exceeds China in per capita emissions. Cumulatively, the U.S. has emitted the greatest amount of CO 2, though China's emission trend is ...

  6. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020 - Wikipedia

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    A new UN report by UN ESCAP noted that the COVID-19 pandemic, due to shutdowns, could help improve the well-being of oceans in the Asia-Pacific region. 14 May. UNAIDS initiated a petition from global leaders requesting that when a successful COVID-19 vaccine is developed, it be available free to all.

  7. Gross domestic product - Wikipedia

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    In 2017 Diane Coyle explained that GDP excludes much unpaid work, writing that "many people contribute free digital work such as writing open-source software that can substitute for marketed equivalents, and it clearly has great economic value despite a price of zero", which constitutes a common criticism "of the reliance on GDP as the measure ...

  8. Defined benefit pension plan - Wikipedia

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    Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns.

  9. Performance report - Wikipedia

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    Performance report. A performance report is a report on the performance of something. [1] They are routinely produced by government bodies which, being financed by public money, are required to show that the money was spent efficiently and usefully. [2] Such reports will contain performance indicators which measure the achievements of the ...