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Pension funds
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Electronic funds transfer systems
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electronic funds transfer at point of sale
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Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell (Ian Robert Maxwell), 1923-91, British business executive, b. Czechoslovakia as Jan Ludwik Hoch. He grew up in a tight-knit Jewish community. After fleeing the Nazis in 1939, Maxwell fought with the British during World War II. In 1951, he purchased Pergamon Press, a publisher of... Read more |
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CIGNA Corp
CIGNA Corporation One Liberty PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19192-1550U.S.A.Telephone: (215) 761-1000Fax: (215) 761-5515Web site: http://www.cigna.com Public Company Incorporated: 1981Employees: 43,200Total Assets: $95.09 billion (2000)Stock Exchanges: New York Pacific PhiladelphiaTicker... Read more |
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Revelstoke
Revelstoke, British Columbia/Canada Second Crossing A city and a mountain named after Edward Charles Baring (1828–97), Lord Revelstoke, the head of a British bank that helped to provide funding for the Canadian Pacific Railway which passed through here.... Read more |
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hedge fund
hedge fund in finance, a highly speculative, largely unregulated investment device. Originating in the 1950s, the funds "hedge" by offsetting "short" positions (borrowing a security and then selling it at a higher price before repaying the lender) against "long" positions (borrowing... Read more |
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James Larkin
James Larkin 1876-1947, Irish labor leader. The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, which he organized and of which he was secretary, had as its goal the combining of all Irish industrial workers, skilled and unskilled, into one organization. After his activity in the general strike of 1913... Read more |
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Actuary
ACTUARY A statistician who computes insurance and pension rates and premiums on the basis of the experience of people sharing similar age and health characteristics. The profession also includes statisticians who provide expert data analysis on risk assessment and risk management for the... Read more |
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Plenty to gain? Venture capital.
...year. To many pension-fund investors...companies' pension funds, including...raising fresh funds has become difficult...new venture funds;the old...tracked the fund-raising of...now at their ... |