록펠러가 세계를 지배하는 형태: 록펠러 재단 또는 록펠러 캐피탈 매니지먼트 -> 비상장기업 또는 중개법인 -> 뱅가드 이사회 -> 뱅가드 -> 블랙록 -> 전세계 기업 지배
ChatGPT의 말:
The idea that the Rockefeller Foundation secretly owns Vanguard is speculative and not supported by verifiable evidence. Let’s break it down clearly:
✅ 1. Who owns Vanguard?
Vanguard is unique among major asset management firms because it is mutually owned:
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The investors in Vanguard’s funds (i.e. individual and institutional clients) are the owners of Vanguard itself.
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In other words, Vanguard is owned by its clients, not by external shareholders or foundations.
📌 This is often summarized by:
"Vanguard is owned by the funds, which are owned by the investors."
❓ 2. Does Vanguard disclose who those investors are?
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Vanguard does not publicly disclose a complete list of individual fund investors (privacy reasons).
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It manages funds for millions of people, including retail investors, pensions, institutions, governments, and yes, possibly trusts or foundations like Rockefeller-related entities.
🕵️ 3. Could the Rockefeller Foundation be one of those investors?
Technically, yes — the Rockefeller Foundation or any Rockefeller-connected entity could be a fund holder, like any other foundation or trust.
But here's the key distinction:
👉 Holding shares in a Vanguard fund is not the same as owning or controlling Vanguard itself.
Even if the Rockefeller Foundation held positions in Vanguard-managed funds:
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It wouldn’t give them special control or influence over Vanguard’s operations.
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It wouldn’t make them a secret owner of Vanguard.
🔎 4. Is there any evidence the Rockefeller Foundation has outsized control over Vanguard?
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No credible evidence exists that the Rockefeller Foundation owns or controls Vanguard.
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This theory often arises in conspiracy-adjacent circles, where the lack of transparency about Vanguard’s investors is taken as “proof” of shadowy control.
But lack of disclosure ≠ proof of secret ownership.
🧠 Bottom Line:
There is no solid evidence that the Rockefeller Foundation secretly owns Vanguard.
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It’s possible that Rockefeller-connected entities invest in Vanguard funds, like millions of others.
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But this does not amount to ownership or control of Vanguard as a company.
Would you like a breakdown of how mutual ownership structures work or how Vanguard’s governance compares to firms like BlackRock or State Street?
나의 말:
ChatGPT의 말:
Good question — let’s clarify why I said that and what the basis is.
🔍 Why I said:
“Even if the Rockefeller Foundation held positions in Vanguard-managed funds…”
It’s because:
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Anyone can invest in Vanguard funds
Vanguard offers mutual funds and ETFs to the general public, including:-
Individual retail investors
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Institutions (like pension funds or university endowments)
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Non-profits and foundations
The Rockefeller Foundation, like any large institutional investor, could invest in Vanguard funds if it chose to. There’s no restriction preventing them from doing so.
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But no public record confirms they do
As of now, there’s:-
No publicly available evidence showing that the Rockefeller Foundation is a significant investor in Vanguard funds.
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Vanguard does not disclose the full list of fund shareholders (it only reports institutional holdings in public filings where required, e.g., 13F filings in the U.S.).
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So, the statement is hypothetical:
It acknowledges the possibility that the Rockefeller Foundation could hold positions in Vanguard funds but doesn’t assert that it does.
🧠 Why it matters:
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This distinction is key when evaluating conspiracy claims or theories about hidden ownership.
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Investing in a fund ≠ owning or controlling the fund manager (Vanguard).
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The Rockefeller Foundation being a fund investor (if true) wouldn’t imply it controls Vanguard.
📝 TL;DR:
I said "even if" because:
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It's possible (but unconfirmed) that the Rockefeller Foundation has investments in Vanguard funds.
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That would not mean it owns or secretly controls Vanguard.
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The point was to preemptively clarify that mere investment (if it exists) doesn’t equal ownership of Vanguard itself.
Would you like help tracing actual public investments tied to the Rockefeller Foundation (like from Form 990 or other filings)?
나의 말:
ChatGPT의 말:
Great — let’s break that down precisely and clearly:
💼 Why investing in a Vanguard fund ≠ owning or controlling Vanguard (the fund manager)
🔹 1. Vanguard’s business structure is unique
Vanguard is mutually owned, which means:
💡 The Vanguard Group, Inc. (the company that manages the funds) is owned by the funds themselves,
and the funds are owned by the investors.
So if you invest in a Vanguard fund, you own shares in the fund, not in The Vanguard Group, Inc. (the asset manager).
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You do not get equity in the management company.
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You do not get voting rights over corporate policy at Vanguard Group.
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You have no say in executive leadership, hiring, or strategy.
This is very different from owning stock in a regular company like Apple or BlackRock.
🔹 2. The fund is a separate legal entity
Each Vanguard mutual fund or ETF is a separate investment vehicle:
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You invest in the assets the fund holds (e.g. stocks or bonds),
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But you don’t own the company that manages the fund (Vanguard Group).
Think of it this way:
Owning a ticket to a concert doesn’t make you a shareholder in the production company putting on the show.
🔹 3. Why this matters
Let’s apply it to your original question:
❓ If the Rockefeller Foundation bought $10 million of shares in a Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, does it control Vanguard?
No. It just owns part of the ETF — the fund’s holdings, not Vanguard Group itself.
It would have no special rights or influence over:
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Vanguard's corporate strategy
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ESG policy
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Leadership decisions
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Operations
🔹 4. Contrast with companies like BlackRock
BlackRock is a publicly traded company. If you buy stock in BlackRock (BLK), you become a shareholder in BlackRock Inc., the management firm itself.
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You can vote on shareholder proposals
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You have a legal equity stake in the firm
👉 That is not true with Vanguard, which is private and mutually owned.
✅ Summary
| Action | What You Own | Do You Control the Manager? |
|---|---|---|
| Invest in a Vanguard fund | Shares in the fund's portfolio assets | ❌ No control over Vanguard Group |
| Buy stock in BlackRock (BLK) | Equity in the management company | ✅ Yes, you have some control as a shareholder |
Let me know if you want a visual or analogy to clarify it further — this part of financial structure is often misunderstood, and it's great you're digging into it.
나의 말:
ChatGPT의 말:
Excellent follow-up — you're going straight to the heart of how Vanguard's governance really works, and it's a bit unusual in the financial world. Let’s dig in:
🏛 So… who has equity, voting rights, or executive influence at Vanguard?
🔹 1. Equity in Vanguard Group, Inc.
The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is the asset management company, is not publicly traded and doesn’t have outside shareholders.
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The Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs themselves own The Vanguard Group, Inc.
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Those funds are legally structured as separate entities.
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In a real sense, no person or outside entity directly owns Vanguard Group like a regular company.
This means:
🧠 The investors who own shares in Vanguard funds indirectly “own” Vanguard Group through the fund’s mutual ownership structure, but they don't get corporate-level equity like shareholders in a public company would.
🔹 2. Who has voting rights over Vanguard Group leadership?
Formally, the boards of directors of the Vanguard funds do.
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Vanguard’s funds are governed by boards, composed largely of independent directors.
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These boards have fiduciary duties to fund shareholders (you, if you're an investor).
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These boards elect and oversee the management of Vanguard Group itself.
So:
✅ Fund boards, on behalf of all fund investors, have governance power over Vanguard Group.
❌ No individual investor, not even a billionaire, gets executive voting rights just for buying fund shares.
🔹 3. Who appoints Vanguard’s executives like CEO Tim Buckley?
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The Vanguard funds' board of directors (representing fund shareholders) appoint the CEO and executive leadership of Vanguard Group.
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It’s a closed governance loop: investors own the funds → the funds own Vanguard → the funds’ boards govern Vanguard.
There is no ownership by Wall Street, hedge funds, families (like the Rockefellers), or outside interests.
🔒 Can anyone control Vanguard?
Not really — no outside investor, foundation, or government can control Vanguard unless:
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They manage to gain control of a majority of Vanguard fund boards, which is legally, structurally, and practically impossible due to governance rules and regulatory oversight.
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Vanguard is subject to strict SEC regulations, designed to prevent concentrated control or abuse.
🧾 Bottom Line
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who owns Vanguard Group? | The Vanguard funds do. |
| Who owns the funds? | The millions of investors like you and me. |
| Who governs Vanguard? | The funds’ independent boards, who hire executives. |
| Can an individual (e.g., Rockefeller Foundation) gain control? | No, not through fund investment. |
Let me know if you'd like a breakdown of how this structure compares to other firms like Fidelity, BlackRock, or State Street — it’s a fascinating area of financial power and influence.
나의 말:
ChatGPT의 말:
Yes — to some extent, the Rockefeller Foundation can limit public visibility into where it has invested its money. But not entirely.
Here's a breakdown of what can and cannot be hidden:
✅ What the Rockefeller Foundation can hide or obscure:
1. Investments made through intermediaries
If the Foundation invests via:
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Hedge funds
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Private equity funds
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Fund-of-funds
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Offshore investment vehicles
…then you won’t see the end recipients of that capital in public filings.
📌 Example: If they put $50 million into a private fund managed by XYZ Capital, and XYZ Capital invests in a dozen companies, the public only sees the investment in the fund, not the downstream holdings.
2. Private investments not subject to disclosure
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Investments in non-public companies (startups, private infrastructure, real estate) can be entirely private.
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No legal obligation to disclose these investments unless the Foundation chooses to.
3. Use of donor-advised funds (DAFs) or trusts
They can place money into DAFs or affiliated trusts, which then make grants or investments. These entities don’t always clearly trace back to the Foundation.
❌ What the Rockefeller Foundation cannot fully hide:
1. IRS Form 990-PF
As a U.S.-based private foundation, it must file a Form 990-PF annually with the IRS, which includes:
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A list of grants made to organizations
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Disclosed investment managers
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Compensation paid to officers and directors
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A list of directly held investments (if material)
📎 These filings are public and can be found on sites like ProPublica or Foundation Center.
But — and this is key — they do not have to list every individual stock or fund they invest in. They only need to:
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Disclose significant investments
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Show how assets are generally allocated (e.g., equities, bonds, alternatives)
🧩 Summary
| Can the Rockefeller Foundation hide X? | Answer |
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| Investments made through private funds | ✅ Yes, mostly opaque |
| Public company holdings | ❌ Partially visible in some cases via filings |
| IRS 990-PF disclosure of grants and managers | ❌ Required and public |
| Downstream ownership in Vanguard or BlackRock funds | ✅ Effectively invisible |
⚠️ Bottom Line:
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The specifics of the Rockefeller Foundation’s investments — especially if routed through complex or private channels — can often be effectively hidden from public scrutiny.
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However, their high-level financial behavior (grants, asset size, manager names) is partially visible via public filings.
Would you like me to pull up a recent example from their Form 990-PF or show how to search it yourself?
DAVID ROCKEFELLER, JR.
David Rockefeller Jr. is a longstanding businessman and philanthropist. He has held many positions amongst Rockefeller-related entities, as well as in nonprofits that support the arts and the environment. Mr. Rockefeller previously served as Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, as well as President of the Rockefeller Family Fund. He was twice Chairman of Rockefeller & Company, which became Rockefeller Capital Management in 2018, and where he now serves as a Director. He is a Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the David Rockefeller Fund, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. True to his family’s legacy of land preservation, Mr. Rockefeller served as Citizen Chair of the National Parks Foundation from 1995-2005. Mr. Rockefeller is a Life Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, a Trustee of the Asian Cultural Council and a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Rockefeller’s commitment to environmental preservation and passion for sailing led him to found the nonprofit organization, Sailors for the Sea (SfS), in 2004. In 2018 SfS joined forces with the global ocean conservation organization, Oceana, becoming one of its programs. Mr. Rockefeller is now a Director of Oceana.
데이비드 록펠러 주니어가 오랫동안 관리해온 록펠러 캐피탈 매니지먼트가 록펠러 재단 대신 록펠러 카르텔 지배구조의 정점에 올라섰다고 볼 수 있는 정황 증거가 있다.
먼저 첫번째 근거는, 데이비드 록펠러 주니어의 경쟁상대였던 제이 록펠러의 부인이 이사회 멤버로 있는 록펠러 재단과 다르게, 록펠러 캐피탈 매니지먼트는 순수하게 데이비드 록펠러 주니어 직속의 투사회사이기 때문이다.
두번째 근거는, 데이비드 록펠러 주니어가 록펠러 재단의 핵심인 록펠러센터 56층의 5600호실을 Jerry I. Speyer에게 매각했다는 사실이다. 원래 2000년도에 록펠러 일족은 록펠러 센터를 부동산업자인 Jerry I. Speyer에게 매각했지만, 가장 상징적인 56층 한 층만은 남겨두고 있던 상황이었다. 하여, 데이비드 록펠러 주니어가 56층을 매각하고, 5600호실의 역할을 자신이 운영하는 록펠러 캐피탈 매니지먼트로 흡수한 게 아닌가 추정된다.
아울러, 록펠러 캐피탈 매니지먼트 이사회에서 가장 중요한 사람은 세계 제2위의 자산운용사인 뱅가드 회장을 지냈던 John J. ("Jack") Brennan과 록펠러 재단의 금고를 관리하는 것으로 알려진 Room 5600 LLC (Room 5600 Operating Committee)의 회장을 지낸 Peter M. O’Neill로 보인다.
Greg Fleming will lead Rockefeller Capital Management, which will be owned and bankrolled by hedge fund firm Viking Global Investors.
Former head of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Greg Fleming, has returned to Wall Street with ambitious plans to reboot the 135-year old Rockefeller family office.
Fleming has been appointed as chief executive of Rockefeller Capital Management, a new independent wealth advisor firm, formed by a deal between Rockefeller Financial Services and hedge fund firm Viking Global Investors.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the deal means Viking owns the majority of the firm, for which it paid ‘a low nine figure sum’, with the Rockefellers maintaining around a 10% stake. Fleming and other board members of the new firm are investors in the company too, via Viking.
Viking plans to invest further in the firm to expand its asset management focus beyond its current equity and ESG specialisms, boost its wealth management services, and add on a corporate advisory business.
A statement announcing the deal said: 'The ownership group anticipates making substantial additional capital investments in Rockefeller over multiple years. This will provide the capital necessary for Rockefeller to execute its strategy, enabling the firm to broaden its products and services and accelerate its growth.'
Rockefeller has around $16.2 billion in assets under advice for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, foundations and endowments.
It was established in 1882 when John D. Rockefeller set up a family office to manage his growing oil wealth. According to the WSJ, it began taking in outside money in 1979 and today the Rockefeller family wealth accounts for around one third of assets.
David Rockefeller Jr, chairman of Rockefeller Financial Services, said: ‘The team at Rockefeller Financial Services has spent years building the highest-quality investment management firm for families and institutions. We look forward to Greg’s leadership and Viking’s support to expand the Rockefeller platform and bring new products and services to our clients.’
Fleming left Morgan Stanley in January 2016, having risen to be president of its wealth management business. He had previously been president of its investment management arm and prior to that had been president and chief operations officer at Merrill Lynch.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited sources familiar with the situation, since leaving Morgan Stanley Fleming considered taking on roles with Pimco and Blackstone but decided against another position as an executive at a public company.
Gregory J. Fleming (born 1963) is an American business executive and investment banker.[1] Currently the CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management,[2] Fleming is also a lecturer at Yale Law School in ethics and financial markets.[1] He previously served as president and chief operating officer at Merrill Lynch, where he led several major mergers and acquisitions deals in the 2000s,[3] including the $50 billion sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America.[4] In 2010 he became president of Morgan Stanley Investment Management,[2] then becoming president of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in 2011.[5] He was named the founding president and CEO of Rockefeller Capital in 2017.[6]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in 1963,[7] Fleming grew up in Hopewell Junction, New York; both of his parents were school teachers.[3] In 1985[8] earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University in economics, summa cum laude.[9] He received a J.D. from Yale Law School[10] in 1988.[11]
Career[edit]
In 1988, Fleming joined the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton as a consultant,[11] later becoming a principal.[12] Fleming was hired by Merrill Lynch in 1992,[13] and was initially tasked with restructuring the firm's municipal bond division.[14] He advised on BlackRock's initial public offering in 1999, and was subsequently promoted to head Merrill Lynch's U.S. financial institutions group.[15] In 2003, he became of head the company's global investment banking, and then co-president of the capital markets unit.[13] In those roles, Fleming oversaw the merger of Merrill Lynch Investment Management and BlackRock in 2006.[16] In May 2007, Fleming and Ahmass Fakahany were named co-presidents of Merrill Lynch.[17] In June 2008, Fleming became chief operating officer.[18] After the Bank of America merger was completed in January 2009,[19] Fleming resigned from Merrill Lynch to teach at Yale University,[20] becoming a senior research scholar and lecturer in law.[7]
In 2010[2] Fleming became president of Morgan Stanley Investment Management,[19] also joining its operating committee.[15] In 2011 he became president of global wealth management.[5] Fleming resigned from Morgan Stanley in January 2016,[18] continuing to lecture at Yale.[2] Fleming joined the board of Putnam Investments in August 2016.[21] That year, he assisted Anthony Scaramucci with selling SkyBridge Capital,[22] and in 2017 represented Derek Jeter on the consortium purchase of the Miami Marlins.[1] In 2017, Fleming was announced as the founding CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, while also taking an ownership stake.[6]
Viking Global Investors
Viking Global Investors is an American-based hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, which specialises in early stage and late stage ventures.
History[edit]
It was established in October 1999 by its CEO and risk manager, Ole Andreas Halvorsen, Brian T Olson and David C Ott.[2][3]
Ole Andreas Halvorsen previously worked for Julian Robertson at the firm Tiger Management, making Viking one of the 30 or more so-called "Tiger Cubs," funds founded by managers who started their investment careers with Tiger Management.[4]
In June 2017, Viking announced that it was returning $8 billion to investors to "reset to a smaller size."[5]
Viking has offices in Greenwich, where it is headquartered, New York, Hong Kong, London and San Francisco.[6]
Ole Andreas Halvorsen (born 1961) is a Norwegian billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the CEO and a co-founder of the Connecticut-based hedge fund, Viking Global Investors.[2] Viking had $24 billion under management as of October, 2017.[3] Halvorsen has consistently ranked among the top earning hedge fund managers, placing 11th in Forbes' 2012 rankings and 9th in 2015, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha.[4][5][6]
Halvorsen is a protégé of hedge fund manager Julian Robertson.[7] As of August 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$6.6 billion.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Halvorsen was born in Norway in 1961. He graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy and then served as a leader of a Norwegian SEAL team.[2]
Halvorsen attended Williams College, where he was a member of the ski team, and graduated in 1986 with a degree in economics. He went on to receive his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1990.[2] [8] At Stanford, he received the Alexander A. Robichek Student Achievement Award in Finance and was an Arjay Miller Scholar.[9] Halvorsen is now on Williams' Board of Trustees.[10]
Investment career[edit]
Halvorsen worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley after finishing his studies. Then he moved to Tiger Management Corp, where he was a senior managing director, as well as an analyst and director of equities, and a member of the management committee. He sat on Tiger's advisory board, and on the supervisory board of the firm's largest fund, Jaguar Fund N.V..[11]
In 1999, Halvorsen left Tiger to co-found Viking Global Investors, an investment firm managing in excess of $30 billion capital, of which he is currently the CEO, alongside David Ott and Brian Olson.[12][13] Halvorsen, Ott, and Olson are part of the group known as "Tiger Cubs," former employees of Julian Robertson's Tiger Management Corporation now working as hedge fund managers on their own.[14] Viking Global's main operations cover public equity and hedge funds on the international market.[15]
Rockefeller Capital Management is adding another brokerage executive to its ranks this spring.
Joe Ferlisi, a longtime wirehouse executive and the chief technology officer of Global Banking and Markets at Bank of America's Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, is departing to join Rockefeller and become its first chief information officer in May. He will spearhead innovation, technology and information strategy and architecture, and data security across all parts of the business, Rockefeller said in a statement on Monday.
Rockefeller President and CEO Gregory Fleming said Ferlisi is "one of the most experienced technology leaders in the industry" and was the architect of many widely used platforms in the wealth management industry.
Among his responsibilities, Ferlisi will be in charge of the new Rockefeller Global Family Office platform that will cater to ultra-high-net-worth families, typically defined as those with a net worth of at least $30 million. Timothy O’Hara, who spent more than 20 years and was president and CEO of Ayco, a prominent family office and wealth-planning business owned by Goldman Sachs, is also set to join Rockefeller in May as president of Rockefeller's multifamily office.
After 17 years at Merrill Lynch, Ferlisi became the CTO of field and client technology for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management from 2013 to 2016. He later returned to Merrill Lynch for the past two and a half years.
Along with executives, Rockefeller has proved to be an attractive landing place for financial advisors. Among others, a group of former Merrill Lynch advisors in Atlanta joined a pair from UBS managing $2.2 billion that opened a Rockefeller office in Georgia's capital in December. The company has offices in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C., Salt Lake City and Wilmington, Del.
A year ago, Fleming told WealthManagement.com that he wanted to grow the advisory firm to $100 billion in assets in the next five years and believed the Rockefeller name would help get him there, particularly in generating new business outside the United States.
마틴 보위츠는 록펠러 재단 이사회의 멤버이자 모건스탠리의 전무이사managing director 겸 리서치 부서 부회장이다. 사실상 미연준, 국제결제은행, JP모건, 골드만삭스 등 주요 투자은행들을 감독관리하는 재단의 핵심 인물로 추정된다. 참고로 모건스탠리의 회장인 James P. Gorman은 과거 미국 연방준비은행의 핵심인 미국 뉴욕 연준의 이사를 지냈고, 현재 CFR의 이사director다.
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