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...financial savvy of an eighth-generation royal, Jah once chartered a plane just to bring a can of hydraulic fluid to his farm. Although his business ventures flopped, Jah was enjoying himself immensely. He bought a mansion in Perth, and converted a minesweeper into a giant luxury yacht. When his Turkish wife left him, unwilling to live on a farm, Jah married an Australian-who would also leave him-and began to dress like his Aussie neighbors, who called him "the Shah...
...growth. According to a 2005 report by Credit Suisse, only about one in five wealthy Asians uses private-banking services, which run the gamut from investing in stocks, hedge funds and private equity to providing tailored advice on everything from estate planning to buying the right Learjet or yacht for your family. At the same time, the region's robust economic expansion is creating a population explosion in the champagne-swilling classes. Most private banks sell their services only to those who are, in the industry jargon, "high-net-worth individuals" (HNWIs)?people with fortunes of at least $1 million...
...underlying cause of Ellison’s change of heart was not immediately clear, but one source close to Mass. Hall said that Ellison had expressed disenchantment with Murray in private meetings on his yacht, and that he was more enthusiastic about having Summers oversee the project than to have Murray lead the institute...
...that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City and raised in Britain, Brazil and France, he returned to his parents' hometown of Turin to study engineering at the rigorous Politecnico University. That was when Elkann began to pass Sundays on the family yacht and afternoons at the Fiat offices with Agnelli, who was then still Fiat's chairman. Speaking from his corner office - the same space at company headquarters Agnelli once occupied - Elkann recalled how he first inched into the family business under his grandfather's watch. "I saw him here, or maybe...
...makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip to Argentina with a Bosnian-Serb family wanted as war criminals. Luckily for Misha, Argentina boasts islands inhabited by birds of his breed. After stints in Ukraine and Chechnya, what more could a tuckered-out penguin ask for? Flightless birds aren't the only characters in Kurkov's absurdly realistic...