assets
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During his 13-year tenure, the Magellan Fund went from less than $20 million in assets to $14 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The new owners: a group led by Jose Feliciano of Santa Monica-based Clearlake Capital, which manages more than $90 billion in assets, and his wife, Kwanza Jones.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, the UK prime minister said dozens of countries had offered to "contribute assets" to the joint mission with France.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
This planning includes the money you’re leaving to your cherished charitable causes: The more assets you can leave to beneficiaries as transfer-on-death or payable-on-death, the more of your estate will bypass probate.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
The trillion-dollar question was, What were those assets?
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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