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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.
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]
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 ...
SVCF holds 1,060 donor-advised funds and roughly $10.1 billion in net assets. The easy-to-open accounts are also gaining preference with the less wealthy. Nearly half of all DAFs held assets ...
Individual retirement account. An individual retirement account [1] ( IRA) in the United States is a form of pension [2] provided by many financial institutions that provides tax advantages for retirement savings. It is a trust that holds investment assets purchased with a taxpayer's earned income for the taxpayer's eventual benefit in old age.
Net asset value. Net asset value ( NAV) is the value of an entity's assets minus the value of its liabilities, often in relation to open-end, mutual funds, hedge funds, and venture capital funds. [1] [2] Shares of such funds registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are usually bought and redeemed at their net asset value. [3]
Supplemental needs trust is a US-specific term for a type of special needs trust (an internationally recognized term). Supplemental needs trusts are compliant with provisions of US state and federal law and are designed to provide benefits to, and protect the assets of, individuals with physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, and still allow such persons to be qualified for and ...
Blended finance. Blended finance [1] is defined as "the strategic use of development finance and philanthropic funds to mobilize private capital flows to emerging and frontier markets ", [2] resulting in positive results for both investors and communities. Blended finance offers the possibility to scale up commercial financing for developing ...