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US$9.5 billion (March 2023) Number of employees. 39 (March 2023) Website. www .perceptivelife .com. Footnotes / references. [1] Perceptive Advisors ("Perceptive") is an American investment firm headquartered in New York City. It is focused on making public and private investments in the healthcare and biotechnology industries.
BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. It is the world's largest asset manager, with $10 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. [1] Headquartered in New York City, BlackRock has 78 offices in 38 countries, and clients in 100 countries.
In 2018, Ackman dumped $500 million into the publicly traded arm of Pershing Square Capital Management stating it was significantly undervalued at roughly $15 a share. As of September 2019, the fund returned 54.5% with a share price of $19.10, the highest since January 2016.
Public finance. A sovereign wealth fund ( SWF ), sovereign investment fund, or social wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund that invests in real and financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, or in alternative investments such as private equity fund or hedge funds. Sovereign wealth funds invest globally.
Mutual fund. A mutual fund is an investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV in Europe ('investment company with variable capital'), and the open-ended investment company (OEIC) in the UK.
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 ...
Prominent funds include the Templeton Growth Fund, Inc. (opened 1954), the Mutual Shares fund (opened 1949), and the Mutual Discovery Fund (opened 1992) and the Templeton Growth (Euro) Fund. The Franklin Income Fund (FKINX) is a mutual fund in Morningstar's "conservative allocation" category and "large/value" style box.
Share repurchase, also known as share buyback or stock buyback, is the reacquisition by a company of its own shares. [1] It represents an alternate and more flexible way (relative to dividends) of returning money to shareholders. [2] When used in coordination with increased corporate leverage, buybacks can increase share prices.