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Charles Francis Feeney (April 23, 1931 – October 9, 2023) was an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group, the travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong.
The Atlantic Philanthropies was a limited-life foundation (following plans for a spend-down put forward in 2002), [15] which stated it would close its doors upon the successful completion of its task of giving away to charity all of founder Chuck Feeney's fortune (except for $2 million he had set aside decades earlier for the retirement of ...
Charles “Chuck” Feeney, a retail entrepreneur and investor who amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune and then gave it all away, has died. He was 92. Charles Feeney, retail entrepreneur who ...
The co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group (DFS Group), who died in October last year at age 92, fulfilled his pledge to donate the bulk of his $8 billion fortune long before his death. Don ...
He was the billionaire who gave it all away. Charles “Chuck” Feeney made much of his riches selling booze, cigarettes and perfume. The co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group died on Oct. 9 ...
General Atlantic was founded in 1980 as the captive investment team inside of Atlantic Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Charles F. Feeney a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group. Two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, credit Feeney as a major inspiration for both the $30 billion-strong Bill & Melinda Gates ...
The letter noted that the combined net worth of the world’s 2,640 billionaires is at least $12.2 trillion—more than 20 times as much as the $500 billion in global charitable giving in 2022 ...
The programme was launched in 1998, a "quantum leap to help create a knowledge economy" attributed to the vision of Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney, founding chair of Atlantic Philanthropies. Atlantic and the government developed the plan for the funding model, [1] and the first funding under the scheme was awarded in 1999. [2]