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  2. Michael Platt (financier) - Wikipedia

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    Michael Edward Platt (born 18 March 1968) [1] is a British billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the co-founder and managing director of BlueCrest Capital Management, Europe's third-largest hedge-fund firm [2] which he co-founded in 2000. He is Britain's wealthiest hedge fund manager according to the Forbes Real Time Billionaires List, with an ...

  3. GIC (sovereign wealth fund) - Wikipedia

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    GIC Private Limited is a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund that manages the country's foreign reserves.Established by the Government of Singapore in 1981 as the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, of which "GIC" is derived from as an acronym, its mission is to preserve and enhance the international purchasing power of the reserves, with the aim to achieve good long-term returns ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Scott Trust Limited - Wikipedia

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    The Scott Trust is a limited partner in GMG Ventures LP, founded in 2017, according to the GMG 2018 annual report, "this £42m venture capital fund is designed to contribute financial returns and to support GMG’s strategy by investing in early stage businesses focused on developing the next generation of media technology".

  6. Commonwealth Fund - Wikipedia

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    The Commonwealth Fund is a private U.S. foundation whose stated purpose is to "promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color." It is active in a number of areas related ...

  7. James Doty (physician) - Wikipedia

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    James R. Doty, M.D., FACS, FICS, FAANS (born 1 December 1955) [citation needed] is a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, an affiliate of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

  8. Nordart - Wikipedia

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    NordArt is an international contemporary art exhibition and a non-profit cultural initiative of the ACO Group and the cities of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg. It has taken place annually in the summer since 1999 at Carlshütte, a former iron foundry. The site features 22,000 m² of interior space and 60,000 m² for outdoor installations.

  9. Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development - Wikipedia

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    Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) was founded in 1984 and is a part of Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). It consists of more than 150 companies and is active in 15 countries which employs more than 30,000 people. The agency works to build infrastructures that support economic development.