Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls / Edition 1

by Charles D. Ellis

Overview

"Wall Street People" ist das erste komplette Who's Who in der Geschichte der bekanntesten Finanzstraße der Welt. Charles Ellis und James Vertin - zwei Wall Street Insider - portratieren hier Dutzende der faszinierendsten, einflussreichsten und popularsten Finanzgroßen, die jemals Licht in das sagenumwobene Dunkel der beruhmten Wall Street gebracht haben. Erzahlt werden spannende Geschichten uber das Geld - daruber, wie es gewonnen und verloren wurde, uber phanomenale Coups, dreisten Schwindel, unbandige Gier und blinden Ehrgeiz. Enthalten sind Portrats der ganz Großen in der Finanzarena, wie z.B. Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, Larry Tisch, Jim Rogers, Sanford Weill und George Soros. Aber auch die großen Verlierer wie Ivan Boesky und Nicholas Leeson werden nicht ausgespart. Freuen Sie sich auf eine unterhaltsam-prickelnde Lekture uber die Wall Street und ihre ebenso beruhmten Finanzakteure!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471238096
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/16/2001
Series:	Wiley Investment Ser.
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.27(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

CHARLES D. ELLIS served 28 years as managing partner of Greenwich Associates. He has taught courses in investment management at Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management; served as a trustee on the investment committees of Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University, and the Whitehead Institute; and as chairman of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR).
JAMES R. VERTIN was the founding manager and chief investment officer of Wells Fargo Investment Advisors-which grew to be Barclays Global Investors, one of the world's largest investment firms. He has long served as a leader in the investment profession's organization. Jim and Charley have enjoyed over 30 years of friendship and have produced two prior books together.

Table of Contents

MASTERS OF INVESTING.

Bernard M. Baruch.

Albert J. Hettinger Jr.

Roy Neuberger.

Benjamin Graham.

David L. Babson.

Philip Fisher.

Charles Allen Jr.

John Hay Whitney.

Benno Schmidt.

Fayez Sarofim.

Michael Steinhardt.

Laurence A. Tisch.

Warren Buffett.

Charles T. Munger.

Jack Dreyfus.

Howard Stein.

John Templeton.

Paul Miller.

Claude Rosenberg.

Robert Kirby.

Dean LeBaron.

Peter Lynch.

John B. Neff.

Leon Levy and Jack Nash.

Barton Biggs.

Julian Robertson.

George Soros.

Philip Carret.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS.

Saul P. Steinberg.

William Zeckendorf.

Roland Rowland.

James Goldsmith.

Carl Icahn.

Albert and Paul Reichmann.

Bruce Wasserstein.

Scarsdale Fats.

Alfred W. Jones.

Gerald Tsai.

Fred Alger.

Jerry Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts.

BUSINESS BUILDERS.

Longstreet Hinton.

Hermann J. Abs.

George S. Moore.

David Rockefeller.

George S. Johnston.

Jonathan Bell Lovelace.

Arnold Bernhard.

Edward C. Johnson II.

Edward C. Johnson III.

John C. Bogle.

Joseph K. Klingenstein.

T. J. Carlyle Gifford.

Siegmund Warburg.

Henry Grunfeld.

David Scholey.

Maurice (Hank) Greenberg.

Sanford Weill.

James D. Wolfensohn.

Henry Crown.

Albert H. Gordon.

John L. Loeb.

Gustave Levy.

John C. Whitehead.

John L. Weinberg.

Robert H. B. Baldwin.

Alan C. (Ace) Greenberg.

Pete Peterson and Lewis Glucksman.

Donald Regan.

Michel David-Weill.

William Salomon.

John Gutfreund.

John Meriwether.

Michael Bloomberg.

Richard H. Jenrette.

WISEMEN AND RASCALS.

Sidney Homer.

Henry Kaufman.

John J. McCloy.

William McChesney Martin Jr.

Paul Volcker.

Alan Greenspan.

Gary Lynch.

Ivan F. Boesky.

Dennis B. Levine.

Martin Siegel.

Michael Milken.

Robert Maxwell.

Nicholas Leeson.

Editorial Reviews

A seasoned Wall Street investment manager gathers a collection of profiles of the influential financial luminaries of the investment world. Drawn from magazines, colleagues' accounts, newspapers, and other sources, the profiles examine the personal and professional lives of these powerful characters and how they earned their fame or notoriety. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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