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...blues singer, and this Texas oilman has made plenty of executives cry. The hostile-takeover artist, 76, was targeting CEOs 20 years ago for caring more about their salaries than about their shareholders. (Sound familiar?) TIME's Julie Rawe and Jyoti Thottam talked to the hugely successful hydrocarbon investor about our latest oil troubles...
Michael Housewert isn't your typical IRA investor. Four years ago, the real estate agent at Charde Group Inc. used $195,000 of the funds in his individual retirement account to purchase a piece of undeveloped land along a sun-washed canal on Marco Island, Fla. He sold the property two months ago for more than three times that amount, tucking a $500,000 profit back into...
These managers, often former investors at HMC, operate independent funds endowed with Harvard money. Jeff Larson, a top investor at the management company, will become the fifth fund manager in six years to spin off his own fund from the company when he departs on June...
Across the street from Fidelity, at Putnam Investments, he found another Harvard connection—and investor. There he met with star fullback James L. Callinan ’82, whose exploits he had written about in his Athletics Department job at Harvard. Recalling statistics from the football player’s undergraduate career, Ledecky convinced Callinan to match Danoff’s investment...
...your gains, our products are barely regulated, they're not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and we're not obliged to report publicly where your money is going or how it's doing. Sound risky? It is. So why are mainstream investors lining up to buy into so-called hedge funds, the esoteric investments that used to be the province of the superrich? For one thing, retail investors are tired of traditional mutual funds that tread water or worse. For another, respected firms like Man, a U.K. hedge-fund giant, are now marketing their products...