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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. John Paulson - Wikipedia

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    His flagship fund, Paulson Advantage Fund, fell sharply in 2011. Paulson has also become a major investor in gold. Subprime mortgage crisis. Paulson became world-famous in 2007 by shorting the US housing market, as he foresaw the subprime mortgage crisis and bet against mortgage-backed securities by investing in credit default swaps. Sometimes ...

  4. CIT Group - Wikipedia

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    CIT Group (CIT), a subsidiary of First Citizens BancShares, is an American financial services company. It provides financing, including factoring , cash management , treasury management , mortgage loans , Small Business Administration loans, leasing, and advisory services principally to individuals, middle-market companies and small businesses ...

  5. Best Nasdaq ETFs: Top funds for investing in the tech index - AOL

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    This fund goes up as the Nasdaq-100 goes down, allowing you to short-sell the index in a convenient fund. Annual returns (5 years): -58.4 percent Expense ratio: 0.95 percent

  6. Citadel LLC - Wikipedia

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    Number of employees. 2,630 (2022) [3] : 27. Website. citadel.com. Citadel LLC (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, LLC) is an American multinational hedge fund and financial services company. Founded in 1990 by Ken Griffin, it has more than $58 billion in assets under management as of January 2024.

  7. Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell - Wikipedia

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    On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act, which was live-streamed on Twitch, Bushnell said that he was protesting against "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers" and ...

  8. David Filo - Wikipedia

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    David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.

  9. Richard Feynman - Wikipedia

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    Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.