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Icahn, 69, hasn't mellowed a bit since his corporate-raider days in the 1980s, when he made millions of dollars buying stock and forcing asset sales, stock buybacks and special dividends by the likes of Texaco and Phillips Petroleum. In the '90s, with notable exceptions like RJR Nabisco (in which he bought a stake and pushed the company to break up), he operated more quietly, in beaten-down areas of the bond market. But now he's back on the big stage rattling major corporations--and loving...
...pick a date and say this is the way things should have gone," says James Goss, media analyst at Barrington Research. "Things were evolving." Then, paying off debt was critical, and something had to go. Parsons chose the troubled music division. Still, says Larry Haverty, money manager at Gabelli Asset Management, the value of the division today is $2 billion higher than the $2.6 billion it was sold for. If the stock doesn't jump soon, other shareholders say they'll welcome Icahn's push...
Peter A. Nadosy ’68, a former president of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, was named interim chief investment officer on Friday. The University’s treasurer, James F. Rothenberg ’68, said in an interview that Nadosy would oversee the endowment until a new chief executive is named...
Nearly every asset class outperformed its internal benchmark, investment goals set by the management company’s board based on market performance. Domestic and foreign bonds, traded by two fund managers who left Friday with Meyer, were once again out in front. Private equity, high-yield assets, and commodities also did exceptionally well...
Nearly every asset class outperformed its internal benchmark with domestic and foreign bonds once again out in front. But Harvard’s two chief bond managers, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, are leaving with Meyer today and have also not been replaced...