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Fortress Investment Group

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Fortress Investment Group is an investment management firm based in New York City. [1]

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Adventure travel

Adventure travel is a type of niche tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.

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Aircastle

Aircastle is a global company that acquires and leases high-utility commercial jet aircraft to customers throughout the world.

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Alternative investment

An alternative investment or alternative investment fund (AIF) is an investment in asset classes other than stocks, bonds, and cash.

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Amresco

AMRESCO Inc. was the new name given to "Financial Resource Management, Inc." (FRMI), a subsidiary of the NCNB Texas National Bank in 1992.

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Apollo Global Management

Apollo Global Management, LLC is an American private equity firm, founded in 1990 by former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker Leon Black.

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Assets under management

In finance, assets under management (AUM), sometimes called funds under management (FUM), measures the total market value of all the financial assets which a financial institution such as a mutual fund, venture capital firm, or brokerage house manages on behalf of its clients and themselves.

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Birmingham Business Journal

The Birmingham Business Journal is a weekly business newspaper published in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

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BlackRock

BlackRock, Inc. is an American global investment management corporation based in New York City.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Breakup fee

A breakup fee (sometimes called a termination fee) is a penalty set in takeover agreements, to be paid if the target backs out of a deal (usually because it has decided instead to accept a more attractive offer).

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Brightline

Brightline is a diesel–electric higher-speed rail system in Florida, United States.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Brookdale Senior Living

Brookdale Senior Living is the largest owner and operator of senior living communities throughout the United States, operating over 1,000 senior living communities and retirement communities in the US.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Casino

A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities.

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CBME-FM

CBME-FM is an English-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec.

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Centerbridge Partners

Centerbridge Partners is a multi-strategy private investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts and distressed securities.

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Central Maine and Quebec Railway

The Central Maine & Québec Railway is a Class III freight railroad operating in the U.S. states of Maine and Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec with headquarters in New York, NY.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Citigroup

Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American basic cable, internet and satellite business news television channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast.

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Dechert

Dechert LLP is an international law firm of more than 900 lawyers with top-ranked practices in corporate and securities, complex litigation, finance and real estate, and financial services and asset management.

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Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a German investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany.

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Florida East Coast Industries

Florida East Coast Industries (FECI) is Florida’s oldest and largest commercial real estate, transportation, and infrastructure holding company.

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Florida East Coast Railway

The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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GAGFAH

GAGFAH (Gemeinnützige Aktiengesellschaft für Angestellten-Heimstätten) is a Luxembourg-based realty company.

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GateHouse Media

GateHouse Media Inc. (formerly Liberty Group Publishing), a holding company for New Media Investment Group (NYSE: NEWM), former symbol on OTC Markets Group's OTCQB tier GHSE, is one of the largest publishers of locally-based print and digital media in the United States, headquartered in the town of Perinton, New York.

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Geoffrey Kent

Geoffrey JW Kent (Born July 14, 1942) is the founder, chairman, and CEO of, an international luxury travel company.

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Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.

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Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer.

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Hedge fund

A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques.

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Holiday Retirement

Holiday Retirement is a privately held company headquartered in Winter Park, Florida.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Initial public offering

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.

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Institutional Investor (magazine)

Institutional Investor magazine is a monthly periodical published by Euromoney Institutional Investor.

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Intrawest

Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc was a developer and operator of destination resorts and a luxury adventure travel company.

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Investment management

Investment management is the professional asset management of various securities (shares, bonds and other securities) and other assets (e.g., real estate) in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors.

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IPCom

IPCom GmbH & Co.

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KING-TV

KING-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 48), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Seattle, Washington, United States and also serving Tacoma.

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Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT, on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars.

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Lac-Mégantic, Quebec

Lac-Mégantic is a town in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada.

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Law firm

A law firm or a law company is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law.

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Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker symbol LEH) was a global financial services firm.

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Leveraged buyout

A leveraged buyout (LBO) is a financial transaction in which a company is purchased with a combination of equity and debt, such that the company's cash flow is the collateral used to secure and repay the borrowed money.

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List of asset management firms

An asset management company (AMC) is an asset management / investment management company/firm that invests the pooled funds of retail investors in securities in line with the stated investment objectives.

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List of hedge funds

Here are the ten largest hedge funds in the world ranked by assets under management as of mid 2016.

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Marc Dreier

Marc Stuart Dreier (born May 12, 1950) is a former American lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2009 for committing investment fraud using a Ponzi scheme.

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Michael Novogratz

Michael Edward "Mike" Novogratz (sometimes Novo, born November 26, 1964) is an ex-hedge fund manager, formerly of the investment firm Fortress Investment Group.

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Millennium Development Group

Millennium Development Group, is a Vancouver based real estate development organization and master planned community builder which is part of the Arme Group of Companies established by the Malek/Malekyazdi family.

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Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway

The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway was a Class II freight railroad that operated in the U.S. states of Maine and Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec between 2002 and 2014.

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NASDAQ

The Nasdaq Stock Market is an American stock exchange.

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Nationstar Mortgage

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in the Dallas, Texas area.

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New Senior Investment Group

New Senior Investment Group is a publicly-traded real estate investment trust that invests in retirement homes.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (abbreviated as NYSE, and nicknamed "The Big Board"), is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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OneMain Financial

OneMain Financial is a large provider of personal installment loans in the United States.

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Patent troll

In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious litigation, strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), chilling effects, and the like).

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Penn National Gaming

Penn National Gaming, Inc. is an operator of casinos and racetracks based in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

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Ponzi scheme

A Ponzi scheme (also a Ponzi game) is a form of fraud in which a purported businessman lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors using funds obtained from newer investors.

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Private equity

Private equity typically refers to investment funds organized as limited partnerships that are not publicly traded and whose investors are typically large institutional investors, university endowments, or wealthy individuals.

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Promissory note

A promissory note, sometimes referred to as a note payable, is a legal instrument (more particularly, a financial instrument and a debt instrument), in which one party (the maker or issuer) promises in writing to pay a determinate sum of money to the other (the payee), either at a fixed or determinable future time or on demand of the payee, under specific terms.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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RailAmerica

RailAmerica, Inc., based in Jacksonville, Florida, was a holding company of a number of short-line railroads and regional railroads in the United States and Canada.

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Railroad Acquisition Holdings

Railroad Acquisition Holdings, LLC (RAH) is a railroad holding company which owns several railroads in the U.S. states of Florida, Maine, and Vermont, as well as the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Rob Kauffman (businessman)

Robert "Rob" Kauffman (born June 6, 1964 in Sharon, Connecticut) is an American businessman, investment banker, racing team owner and racing driver.

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Runaway train

A runaway train is a type of railroad incident in which unattended rolling stock is accidentally allowed to roll onto the main line, a moving train loses enough braking power to be unable to stop in safety or a train operates at unsafe speeds due to loss of operator control.

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Ski resort

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.

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SoftBank Group

is a Japanese multinational holding conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company"daughter company.

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Surface Transportation Board

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is a federal, bipartisan, independent adjudicatory board.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company LLC (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) is an American independent film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005.

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Theranos

Theranos is a privately held health technology company known for its false claims to have devised revolutionary blood tests using very small amounts of blood.

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UBS

UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.

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Umami Burger

Umami Burger is an American restaurant chain that specializes in gourmet hamburgers.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Wachovia

Wachovia (former NYSE ticker symbol WB) was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Wes Edens

Wesley Robert Edens is an American businessman, private equity investor and sports team owner.

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Whistler Blackcomb

Whistler Blackcomb is a ski resort located north of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.

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1345 Avenue of the Americas

1345 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the Alliance Bernstein Building, is a 625 ft (191m) tall skyscraper in New York City, New York.

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2010 Winter Olympics

The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (Les XXIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Vancouver 2010, informally the 21st Winter Olympics, was an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 12 to 28 February 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands, and in the nearby resort town of Whistler.

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References

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