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  2. New World Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The New World Foundation is a liberal foundation, [1] based in New York. [2] It supports organizations that work on behalf of civil rights and that seek to encourage participation of citizens in American democracy. [3] It was founded in 1954 by Anita McCormick Blaine, a prominent member of the McCormick family and an heiress to industrialist ...

  3. Plug and Play Tech Center - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, Amidi used the returns from his investments to fund the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California. It was based in a three-story 150,000-square-foot building that would rent space and provide other amenities such as gyms and cafeterias to startup companies. It would also provide them with ready access to data centers and ...

  4. Global Fund for Women - Wikipedia

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    The Global Fund for Women is a non-profit foundation funding women's human rights initiatives. It was founded in 1987 by New Zealander Anne Firth Murray, and co-founded by Frances Kissling and Laura Lederer to fund women's initiatives around the world. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Since 1988, the foundation has awarded over ...

  5. State Street Global Advisors - Wikipedia

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    State Street Global Advisors, the asset management division of State Street Corporation, was founded in 1978 [6] in Boston, Massachusetts . Its first three products were a domestic index fund, an international index fund (based on the MSCI EAFE index), and a short-term investment fund. [7] By 1989 the division had $53 billion (USD) in assets ...

  6. John Cleese - Wikipedia

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    Early life and education Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, the only child of Reginald Francis Cleese (1893–1972), an insurance salesman, and his wife Muriel Evelyn (née Cross, 1899–2000), the daughter of an auctioneer. His family's surname was originally Cheese, but his father had thought it was embarrassing and used the name Cleese when he enlisted in the Army ...

  7. WorldQuant - Wikipedia

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    WorldQuant, LLC is an international hedge fund and quantitative investment management firm [5] [6] [7] headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. [8] Founded in 2007, the firm is currently managing approximately $9 billion in assets under management [3] for Millennium Management [8] via quantitative trading and other methods of quantitative ...

  8. New York Life Insurance Company - Wikipedia

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    Website. newyorklife .com. New York Life Insurance Company ( NYLIC) is the third-largest life insurance company [4] and the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States, [5] and is ranked #71 on the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations by total revenue. [6] In 2023, NYLIC achieved the best possible ratings by the ...

  9. Scott Galloway (professor) - Wikipedia

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    Scott Galloway (born November 3, 1964) is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, public speaker, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur. [5] [6] Early life and education [ edit ]