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Joorabchian's entry into the Brazilian game was, to kick a metaphor around, out of left field. An investment banker and former car salesman, he arrived in Brazil from Britain in 2004 seeking to buy a media outlet. But after watching Corinthians, he decided sports was a better bet. The team was desperate for a benefactor. Despite a fan base of some 24 million, the club attracted fewer than 10,000 people at most games, was more than $20 million in debt and had a revenue stream one-tenth of the $300 million that English powerhouse Manchester United rakes...
...added that Kaplan is neither a traditional academic nor a stereotypical investment banker...
...nearly 10% share of the Nordic exchange. There may be room for more than one financial center in the region. Yet Dubai and Qatar seem bent on a showdown, with Dubai betting on its venture with the Americans and Qatar with the Europeans. "Both of them," one banker tells Time, "think there can only be one megaexchange in the Middle East." But they have jointly served notice to New York City and London that the gulf is a powerful new player on the world's financial stage...
...does finance jobs lives in Manhattan.” Unlike many Harvard graduates, when Golis graduated, he received no financial help from his parents, even though he had not yet found a job—and when he did, he wasn’t making anything close to investment-banker money. Politics welcomes far fewer Harvard alums than it once...
...Fang, Merrill Lynch investment banker and denizen of what idealistic sophomores call “the dark side,” who makes the most black-and-white statement of all; of his plans to somehow give back despite the practical obstacles that give people reasons not to every day, Fang simply explains: “Eventually, I have to. To not be a terrible person, you have...