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dollars. He also served as a spokesman for the American Heart Association, along with his former Knicks teammate, Walt "Clyde" Frazier. Funds under management for the quarter ended 31 December 2004 were 374.0 billion U.S. He has received many honors for these "off-the-court" community activities, including the Harlem Professionals Inspirational Award, Most Outstanding Model for American Youth, the YMCA Citizenship Award and Big Apple Sportsman of the Year Award. AMVESCAP has been through financially difficulties in recent times due to the weakness of international stock markets, and made losses after goodwill amortization in 2003 and 2004. Monroe has also been active in various community affairs and programs, including the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Health, the Crown Heights Youth Collective, the Literary Assistance Fund and the Harlem Junior Tennis Program. It tradeds under the names Invesco and Aim Funds and has branches in around twenty countries, but more than half of its business is in the United States. In recent years, he has been serving as a commentator for Madison Square Garden and as commissioner of the New Jersey Urban Development Corporation.

It is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100 Index. Monroe was chosen commissioner of the United States Basketball League in 1985. AMVESCAP plc is an investment management company based in London, England. Monroe was named one of the 50 players on the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996. In 1990, he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Knicks retired his jersey number (#15) in 1986.

He also spent eight years (1972-1980) with the New York Knicks, winning an NBA championship in 1973. In 1967, he joined the NBA team Baltimore Bullets (now the Washington Wizards), where he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in a season that included scoring 56 points in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers, the third-highest rookie total in NBA history at the time. Monroe rose to prominence at the Division II school playing basketball at Winston-Salem State University, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was nicknamed "Earl the Pearl".

Earl Vernon Monroe (born on November 21, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was an American professional basketball player known for his flamboyant dribbling, passing and play-making. Basketball Hall of Fame profile.