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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. Nordart - Wikipedia

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    NordArt is an international contemporary art exhibition and a non-profit cultural initiative of the ACO Group and the cities of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg. It has taken place annually in the summer since 1999 at Carlshütte, a former iron foundry. The site features 22,000 m² of interior space and 60,000 m² for outdoor installations.

  4. Renaissance Technologies - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance Technologies LLC, also known as RenTech [4] or RenTec, [5] is an American hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York, [6] on Long Island, which specializes in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statistical analysis. Their signature Medallion fund is famed for the best record in investing history.

  5. The Vanguard Group - Wikipedia

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    The Vanguard Group, Inc. The Vanguard Group, Inc. (commonly known as simply Vanguard ), is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with about $7.7 trillion in global assets under management, as of April 2023. [3] It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds ...

  6. Theranos - Wikipedia

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    Theranos Inc. (/ ˈ θ ɛr. ə n. oʊ s /) was an American privately held corporation that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Founded in 2003 by then 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors, resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014.

  7. Financial endowment - Wikipedia

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    Harvard University's endowment was valued at $53.2 billion as of 2021. [1] A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors. [2] Endowments are often structured so ...

  8. Harvard University endowment - Wikipedia

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    Harvard Management Company, Inc. The Harvard University endowment, valued at $49.444 billion as of June 30, 2022, [1] is the largest academic endowment in the world. [2] [3] Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending the year with its largest sum in history. [4] Along with Harvard's pension assets, working ...

  9. Saradha Group financial scandal - Wikipedia

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    Saradha Group financial scandal. The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major political scandal caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 private companies that was believed to be running collective investment schemes popularly but incorrectly referred to as chit funds [1] [2] [3] in Eastern India.