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  2. Fidelity Magellan Fund - Wikipedia

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    The Fidelity Magellan Fund ( Mutual fund: FMAGX) is a U.S.-domiciled mutual fund from the Fidelity family of funds. [1] It is perhaps the world's best-known actively managed mutual fund, known particularly for its record-setting growth under the management of Peter Lynch from 1977 to 1990. [2] On January 14, 2008, Fidelity announced that the ...

  3. Nadar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Nadar (caste) Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Virudhunagar. The Nadar community was not a single caste, but developed from an assortment of related subcastes, which in course of time came under the single banner ...

  4. Royal Film Performance - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Film Performance is a trademarked event owned by The Film and Television Charity, [1] formerly known as the Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund CTBF (from 1964 to 2017) and previously the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund (from its inception in 1924). [2] The events showcases a major film premiere and is attended by members of the ...

  5. Aircraft performance - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft performance refers to the ability of airplanes and helicopters to accomplish certain useful things. [1] It is an important consideration when designing and testing aircraft, to ensure the aircraft can be operated in an efficient and economic manner. [2] There are typically trade-offs involved, for example an aircraft optimised for ...

  6. Hedge fund - Wikipedia

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    Hedge fund. A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to improve investment performance and insulate returns from market risk. Among these portfolio techniques are short selling and the use of leverage and derivative instruments. [1]

  7. Investment fund - Wikipedia

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    Many passive funds are index funds, which attempt to replicate the performance of a market index by holding securities proportionally to their value in the market as a whole. Another example of passive management is the " buy and hold " method used by many traditional unit investment trusts where the portfolio is fixed from outset.

  8. Founders Fund - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.foundersfund.com. Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm formed in 2005 and has roughly $12 billion in total assets under management as of 2023. [1] Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies ( SpaceX) and Palantir Technologies, and early investor in Facebook.

  9. Pax World Funds - Wikipedia

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    Pax World launched the first socially responsible mutual fund in the United States in 1971. [1] The company was founded by Luther Tyson [2] and Jack Corbett, [3] both of whom had worked on peace, housing and employment issues for the United Methodist Church. Their vehicle, the first broadly diversified, publicly available mutual fund to use ...