Word: philanthropist
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...years. IRSA's shares trade on the Buenos Aires bolsa, but they are also listed as the only Argentine real estate play on the New York Stock Exchange. IRSA's American connection is gold plated: much of the firm's capital comes from U.S. hedge-fund billionaire and philanthropist George Soros. IRSA's president and CEO, Eduardo Elsztain, 37, met Soros in 1990 in New York City, where the younger man, who was tending a $10 million portfolio of Argentine-owned properties, had moved for a year...
Thanks for introducing me to the persona of financier and philanthropist George Soros [BUSINESS, Sept. 1]. How refreshing it is to read of someone of his stature who is truly committed to learning from argument and open debate and who is willing to use his power to apply new insights to some of life's more perplexing problems. JACK E. RUBEY Norcross...
...Soros is gleefully flouting the script for Act II. With a unique and astonishing passion for challenging conventional wisdom, he is leveraging his billions to move controversial ideas and speculate in policy. In the process, he has made himself the most influential, intriguing and to some the most infuriating philanthropist of our era. Says he: "When I was offered an honorary degree at Oxford, they asked me how I wanted to be described, and I said I would like to be called a financial, philanthropic and philosophical speculator...
KUALA LUMPUR: He's already being hounded by the Russian Duma as a CIA spy. Now a group of southeast Asian countries want him prosecuted as a criminal. Has financier and philanthropist George Soros been speculating too much for his own good...
...turned up in Chicago. Lee Miglin, 72, was one of that city's more respected and better-known developers. A coal miner's son turned real estate baron, he had been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly...