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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund sponsors the Museum of the Year award (known as the Gulbenkian Prize from 2003 to 2007 and the Art Fund Prize from 2008 to 2012). This is a £100,000 prize awarded annually to the museum or gallery that had the most imaginative, innovative or popular project during the previous year. [11]

  3. SPDR Gold Shares - Wikipedia

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    SPDR Gold Shares (also known as SPDR Gold Trust) is part of the SPDR family of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) managed and marketed by State Street Global Advisors. For a few years, the fund was the second-largest exchange-traded fund in the world, and it was briefly the largest. As of the close of 2014, it dropped out of the top ten.

  4. History of Federal Open Market Committee actions - Wikipedia

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    The effective federal funds rate over time, through December 2023. This is a list of historical rate actions by the United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC controls the supply of credit to banks and the sale of treasury securities. The Federal Open Market Committee meets every two months during the fiscal year.

  5. Bond fund - Wikipedia

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    Bond fund. A bond fund or debt fund is a fund that invests in bonds, or other debt securities. [1] Bond funds can be contrasted with stock funds and money funds. Bond funds typically pay periodic dividends that include interest payments on the fund's underlying securities plus periodic realized capital appreciation.

  6. Federal funds rate - Wikipedia

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    Reducing the federal funds rate makes money cheaper, allowing an influx of credit into the economy through all types of loans. The charts referenced below show the relation between S&P 500 and interest rates. July 13, 1990 – Sept 4, 1992: 8.00–3.00% (Includes 1990–1991 recession) Feb 1, 1995 – Nov 17, 1998: 6.00–4.75

  7. 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 ...

  8. Private equity fund - Wikipedia

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    Private equity fund. A private equity fund (abbreviated as PE fund) is a collective investment scheme used for making investments in various equity (and to a lesser extent debt) securities according to one of the investment strategies associated with private equity . Private equity funds are typically limited partnerships with a fixed term of ...

  9. Economy of Burkina Faso - Wikipedia

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    The economy of Burkina Faso is based primarily on subsistence farming and livestock raising. Burkina Faso has an average income purchasing-power-parity per capita of $1,900 and nominal per capita of $790 in 2014.