Wall Street People True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls

by Ellis, Charles D.

• ISBN13: 9780471238096
• ISBN10: 0471238090
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-16
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The first complete Who's Who in the history of the world's best-known financial street Charles D. Ellis and James R. Vertin have crafted a window on Wall Street that investors won't want to miss. These two Wall Street insiders provide detailed profiles of dozens of the most fascinating, influential, and talked-about financial luminaries ever to light up the dark and cavernous purlieus of the world's most famous street. Related here are intriguing tales of money won and lost, amazing coups, brazen cons of financial brilliance, and untrammeled greed and blind ambition. This compelling series includes profiles of the biggest names today: Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, Larry Tisch, Jim Rogers, Sanford Weill, and George Soros-as well as investment losers like Ivan Boesky and Nicholas Leeson. Charles D. Ellis (Greenwich, CT) is a Managing Partner of Greenwich Associates, the international financial consulting firm. Now fully retired, James R. Vertin (Menlo Park, CA) was a principal of Alpine Counselors, a financial consulting firm.

Author Biography

CHARLES D. ELLIS served 28 years as managing partner of Greenwich Associates. He has taught courses in investment management at Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management; served as a trustee on the investment committees of Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University, and the Whitehead Institute; and as chairman of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR).<BR>

Table of Contents

Masters of Investing
Bernard M. Baruch	3	(3)
Albert J. Hettinger Jr.	6	(2)
Roy Neuberger	8	(6)
Benjamin Graham	14	(5)
David L. Babson	19	(3)
Philip Fisher	22	(4)
Charles Allen Jr.	26	(5)
John Hay Whitney	31	(4)
Benno Schmidt	35	(6)
Fayez Sarofim	41	(4)
Michael Steinhardt	45	(2)
Laurence A. Tisch	47	(7)
Warren Buffett	54	(7)
Charles T. Munger	61	(2)
Jack Dreyfus	63	(7)
Howard Stein	70	(2)
John Templeton	72	(5)
Paul Miller	77	(2)
Claude Rosenberg	79	(5)
Robert Kirby	84	(6)
Dean LeBaron	90	(2)
Peter Lynch	92	(5)
John B. Neff	97	(3)
Leon Levy and Jack Nash	100	(3)
Barton Biggs	103	(3)
Julian Robertson	106	(4)
George Soros	110	(5)
Philip Carret	115	(6)
Movers and Shakers
Saul P. Steinberg	121	(3)
William Zeckendorf	124	(4)
Roland Rowland	128	(5)
James Goldsmith	133	(4)
Carl Icahn	137	(5)
Albert and Paul Reichmann	142	(4)
Bruce Wasserstein	146	(4)
Scarsdale Fats	150	(5)
Alfred W. Jones	155	(3)
Gerald Tsai	158	(4)
Fred Alger	162	(3)
Jerry Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts	165	(8)
Business Builders
Longstreet Hinton	173	(1)
Hermann J. Abs	174	(4)
George S. Moore	178	(5)
David Rockefeller	183	(6)
George S. Johnston	189	(2)
Jonathan Bell Lovelace	191	(6)
Arnold Bernhard	197	(2)
Edward C. Johnson II	199	(3)
Edward C. Johnson III	202	(4)
John C. Bogle	206	(1)
Joseph K. Klingenstein	207	(1)
T. J. Carlyle Gifford	208	(2)
Siegmund Warburg	210	(10)
Henry Grunfeld	220	(3)
David Scholey	223	(3)
Maurice (Hank) Greenberg	226	(6)
Sanford Weill	232	(6)
James D. Wolfensohn	238	(3)
Henry Crown	241	(3)
Albert H. Gordon	244	(6)
John L. Loeb	250	(1)
Gustave Levy	251	(1)
John C. Whitehead	252	(7)
John L. Weinberg	259	(7)
Robert H. B. Baldwin	266	(2)
Alan C. (Ace) Greenberg	268	(2)
Pete Peterson and Lewis Glucksman	270	(7)
Donald Regan	277	(2)
Michel David-Weill	279	(4)
William Salomon	283	(5)
John Gutfreund	288	(2)
John Meriwether	290	(5)
Michael Bloomberg	295	(3)
Richard H. Jenrette	298	(5)
Wisemen and Rascals
Sidney Homer	303	(3)
Henry Kaufman	306	(3)
John J. McCloy	309	(2)
William McChesney Martin Jr.	311	(3)
Paul Volcker	314	(5)
Alan Greenspan	319	(5)
Gary Lynch	324	(2)
Ivan F. Boesky	326	(3)
Dennis B. Levine	329	(2)
Martin Siegel	331	(3)
Michael Milken	334	(1)
Robert Maxwell	335	(3)
Nicholas Leeson	338