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...PRINCE AL-WALEED BIN TALAL BIN AB AL-SAUD parlayed a 1979 inheritance of $15,000--and a house that he mortgaged for $400,000--into a $20 billion empire. A Saudi royal and the world's sixth wealthiest individual, al-Waleed, 46, is a global investor whose moves are followed closely by CEOs and money managers. His interests range from his own construction, hotel and oil firms to the stocks of troubled brand-name firms, including Compaq, Disney and Kodak. The prince, who follows the markets by satellite from his yacht, scored his first...
MILLER: We added into positions after Sept. 11. But there is a little more emphasis on a safety net. Were we looking at a typical economic cycle, right now as a value investor, you might look for low-quality value--companies with a little more debt. Those are the ones that really can grow earnings dramatically, but because of this terrorist aspect, we're just not doing the low quality...
Packer was a leading figure in the financial and technology worlds. At Merrill Lynch, he headed the firm’s major effort at online trading—enabling customers to do business with the investment giant directly over the Internet for the first time. In 1999, Institutional Investor, a prominent trade publication, named him one of the country’s top leaders in online finance...
...Weight Watchers went public in mid-November, and the stock is up 32%. Magma Design, a tech IPO, has soared 45%. "We haven't seen a string like that in a long time," says Linda Killian, analyst at Renaissance Capital. Sensing a buoyant market a few months out, billionaire investor Laurence Tisch at Loews Corp. just filed to sell shares of his Lorillard Tobacco in an IPO. He too is reading the tea leaves--and seeing good things...
...comprised of professional women such as Roth, who runs an investor relations firm...