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  2. World Economic Forum - Wikipedia

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    Formerly called. European Management Forum. The World Economic Forum ( WEF) is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab. The foundation's stated mission is "improving the state of the world by ...

  3. E-Trade - Wikipedia

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    E-Trade Financial Center, San Francisco. E-Trade Financial Corporation (stylized as E*TRADE ), a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, offers an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets. The company receives revenue from interest income on margin balances, commissions for order execution, payment for order flow, and management services.

  4. Thinkorswim - Wikipedia

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    Thinkorswim is an electronic trading platform owned by Charles Schwab Corporation used to trade financial assets. It is geared for self-directed stock, options and futures traders. History. Thinkorswim, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan as an online brokerage specializing in options.

  5. Bethlehem Steel - Wikipedia

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    The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was formed by Schwab, who had recently resigned from U.S. Steel, and by Joseph Wharton, who founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Schwab became the first president and first chairman of the board of directors.

  6. Westlake, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The area known as Westlake was originally settled in 1847 by Charles and Matilda Medlin with about 20 other families. In the mid-twentieth century, what is now Westlake was known as Circle T Ranch, a 2,000 acre ranch founded by Dallas attorney and oilman J. Glenn Turner. When incorporated in the late 1950s, the name Southlake, Texas already ...

  7. Symetra - Wikipedia

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    US$ 29.0 billion ( 2021) Owner. Sumitomo Life. Number of employees. 1,250. Website. www.symetra.com. Symetra is an American family of companies providing retirement plans, employee benefits, annuities and life insurance through independent distributors nationwide. The headquarters is in Bellevue, Washington .

  8. Larry Fink - Wikipedia

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    3. Laurence Douglas Fink (born November 2, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation. [1] BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than US$10 trillion in assets under management.

  9. Elbert Henry Gary - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Elbert Henry Gary (October 8, 1846 – August 15, 1927) was an American lawyer, county judge and business executive. He was a founder of U.S. Steel in 1901 alongside J. P. Morgan, William H. Moore, Henry Clay Frick and Charles M. Schwab. The city of Gary, Indiana, a steel town, was named for him when it was founded in 1906.