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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. Richard Driehaus - Wikipedia

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    Richard Driehaus. Richard Herman Driehaus ( / ˈdriːhaʊs /; July 28, 1942 – March 9, 2021) [1] [2] was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder, chief investment officer, and chairman of the hedge fund, Driehaus Capital Management LLC, based in Chicago.

  4. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Wikipedia

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    Based on the 2014 book Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis, the film portrays a heavily fictionalised version of Operation Postmaster. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare had its premiere on April 13, 2024, in New York and was released in the United States on April 19 ...

  5. Light Years (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The story begins in 1958. [1] Viri and Nedra live an idyllic life with their children, Franca and Danny, in the Hudson River Valley. [2] Viri works as an architect in the city, and the couple enjoy hosting dinner for a variety of friends. The first set of friends while leaving the house after dinner with the couple are divided in their opinion ...

  6. Michael Steinhardt - Wikipedia

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    Michael H. Steinhardt (born December 7, 1940) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and former antiquities collector. In 1967, he founded a hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners which he ran until he closed it in 1995. After a hiatus from work, he returned to head WisdomTree Investments in 2004.

  7. FTSE SmallCap Index - Wikipedia

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    The FTSE SmallCap Index is an index of small market capitalisation companies consisting of the 351st to the 619th largest-listed companies on the London Stock Exchange main market.

  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. Scottish Widows - Wikipedia

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    Harari confuses the present day company with an earlier fund set up half a century earlier by two ministers of the Church of Scotland on behalf of the widows of church ministers. Harari rightly credits the original fund as the first of its kind and describes the sequence of events accurately. The beneficiaries were, in that sense, Scottish widows.