Wall Street People: True Stories of Today’s Masters and Moguls: Charles D. Ellis
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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.
From the Inside Flap
Wall Street has a pantheon of fascinating heroes-and downright villains-who have shaped the face of the contemporary investment world and transformed a narrow street in lower Manhattan into a cultural icon recognized the world over. Who hasn’t heard of the achievements and exploits of legends such as Warren Buffett, John Neff, Alan Greenspan, Peter Lynch, John Meriwether, Michael Milken, or George Soros and wondered what the people behind the deeds (or misdeeds) were really like, what they really did, and how?
Wall Street People is a marvelous collection of fascinating profiles of the most interesting, powerful, and talked-about financial luminaries ever to light up the investment world. From influential money managers to ingenious private investors, and from rising stars to fallen heroes, these financial heavyweights have created and performed the great roles on Wall Street-with brilliant stories of money won and lost, amazing financial coups, blind ambition, and brazen cons.
Going behind the image, Wall Street People provides a close look at the personal and professional lives of these powerful, financial personalities and offers inside glimpses into where they got their starts, how they attained their success, what keeps them going, and what earned them fame-or in certain cases-notoriety. Here are portraits of such well-known personalities as:
WARREN BUFFETT-the investment genius whose skill enabled him to become one of America’s wealthiest individuals
SIEGMUND WARBURG-the refugee from Nazi Germany who led the transformation of London’s financial markets
JOHN TEMPLETON-the self-made man who established a distinguished record in investment management and amassed a billion-dollar fortune
SIDNEY WEINBERG, JOHN WHITEHEAD, AND JOHN WEINBERG-who converted Goldman Sachs from disaster in 1930 to global leadership in 2000
EDWARD C. JOHNSON 2nd AND 3rd-as father in the 1940s and, later, son in the 1960s, led Fidelity from managing $3 million in 1943 to nearly $900 billion today
LARRY TISCH-who parlayed the purchase of a resort hotel into a major American fortune
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG-the engaging, hard-driving, irreverent entrepreneur who made a fortune servicing investors’ need for data and transformed the world’s markets
JACK DREYFUS-the founder of the billion-dollar Dreyfus Fund and the idea of performance investing
JOHN NEFF-the longest running, most successful mutual fund manager in history
JONATHAN BELL LOVELACE-the gentle genius who took over a troubled mutual fund in the 1930s and, with his son as successor, developed what is now recognized by professionals as the world’s leading investment management organization
Revealing, captivating, and at times surprising, the profiles in Wall Street People offer you a rare glimpse of the masterminds behind Wall Street’s wheeling, dealing, and everyday dynamics. This unique collection of profiles will be savored by all who are fascinated by or curious about the adventures of finance and investment-and the most significant people who made it happen.
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