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Anil Ambani
Anil Ambani, born June 4, 1959. Ambani holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Mumbai and an MBA degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he serves as a member of the Wharton Board of Overseers. He net-worth is approximately US$45 billion, making him the 6th richest person in the world. His was the world's fastest-growing multi-billion-dollar fortune in percentage terms as his wealth recently tripled in 1 year.Ambani is the chairman of Reliance Capital, Reliance Communications and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy. Reliance group is India's largest business house, founded by Anil's late father Dhirubhai Ambani (1938-2002). Ambani joined Reliance in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer and is credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets. For example, he led India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. He has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, power, and telecom company. The major portion of his wealth is in the four Anil Ambani Group firms: Reliance Communications (RCOM), Reliance Capital (RCL), Reliance Energy (REL) and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL).
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Anthony Bolton
Anthony Bolton (born 7 March 1950) is one of the UK's best known investment fund managers and most successful investors, having managed the Fidelity Special Situations fund since 1979. Over this 27-year period the fund achieved annualised growth of 20.3%, far in excess of the 7.7% growth of the wider stock exchange. Educated at Cambridge University, Bolton left with a degree in engineering. he got into banking and started at Keyser Ullman, a small merchant bank that later sank in the secondary banking crisis of the mid-1970s. he then joined the London outpost of Schlesinger, a South African fund manager and later Fidelity as one of their first London based investment managers. In November 1985, he also took on the management of the new Fidelity European Fund until December 2002. Bolton's contrarian streak and above-average returns have earned him renown in fund-management circles. During his management 1,000 invested in his Special Situations fund at its launch in 1979 was worth more than 125,000 twenty seven years later. The 125-fold increase represents an average compound growth rate of more than 20% per annum, or 7% per annum greater than the FTSE All-Share Index over the same period. Anthony retired from the fund at the end of 2007.More»
Charles H. Brandes CFA
In 2008, he was ranked #165 on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list with a net worth of 2.5 billion and #462 on The World's Billionaires 2008.The Pittsburgh native graduated with a BA in economics from Bucknell University in 1965 before moving to San Diego for graduate studies at San Diego State University.
Charles Brandes is a disciple of economist and investment analyst Benjamin Graham, he founded Brandes Investment Partners in 1974. Prior to founding Brandes in 1974, he became an acquaintance of Benjamin Graham, widely considered the father of the value investing approach.
Charles has published three books on value investing including Value Investing Today.
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Warren Buffett
In 2008, he was ranked #2 on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list with a net worth of 52 billion. Warren Buffett is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway grew at a 21.1% rate, compounded annually, since Warren Buffett took over at Berkshire in 1964. That percentage, is roughly double the S&P 500's total return.More»
David Dreman
David Dreman is Chairman of Dreman Value Advisors and is the author of Contrarian Investment Strategies, the Next Generation: Beat the Market Going Against the Crowd, The New Contrarian Investment Strategy and Contrarian Investment Strategy. He also writes columns for Forbes.More»
Ken Fisher
The son of Philip A. Fisher, Ken Fisher is best known for his prestigious Portfolio Strategy column in Forbes, where his 20+ year tenure of high profile calls makes him the sixth longest running columnist in Forbes' 80+ year history. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments.Ken has written several books including Super Stocks. He developed a tool known as the Price Sales Ratio.. In the 1980s his firm created a school of equity style management called domestic small cap value equity which has been widely adopted.
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Joel Greenblatt MBA BS
Joel Greenblatt is the founder and a managing partner of Gotham Capital, a private investment partnership that has achieved 40% annualized returns since its inception in 1985. He is a professor on the adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School, the former chairman of the board of a Fortune 500 company, the cofounder of ValueInvestorsClub.com, and the author of You Can Be a Stock Market Genius. Greenblatt holds a BS and an MBA from the Wharton School.More»
G. Kenneth Heebner MBA BS
In 2008, Ken was ranked #271 on the Forbes 400Richest Americans list with a net worth of 1.8 billion. Ken Heebner in 1990 was the co-founder of Capital Growth Management, a money management firm with more than $6 billion under management. Heebner is general partner and portfolio manager with Capital Growth Management (CGM funds) and runs the CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX).Carl Icahn
In 2008, he was ranked #18 on the Forbes 400 list with a net worth of 14.5 billion. Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. His net worth is US$14 billion as of 2008, making him the 46th richest man in the world.Some Internet links:
Canny and ruthless, Icahn lives to win
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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, is an Indian investor and a partner in his asset management firm, Rare Enterprises. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and is one of the better known equity investors in India, his approach is fundamental and he takes a long-term view, consequently he is also referred to as the Warren Buffet of India. He has been an active participant in Indian capital markets since 1983, when he started as a trader. In 2007, Forbes rated him as India's 51st and the world's #1062 richest man with wealth of $1.1 billion.Some Internet links:
India's Warren Buffett: A bullish long-term outlook
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Irwin Michael
Irwin A. Michael earned his Bachelor of Commerce Degree from McGill University in 1971. He was later awarded his MBA from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania in 1973, and went on to earn his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1979. The ABC Fundamental-Value fund 15 year average 15.13% versus 9.87% for the TSX Composite Total return.More»
Mark Mobius
Dr. Joseph Mark Mobius (born August 17, 1936) is a global investor and emerging markets fund manager. He is considered an Emerging Market guru with a history in the industry of over 40 years. He received a Bachelors in Fine Arts, a MSc in Communications from Boston University, a Ph.D in economics from MIT in 1964 and a degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of New Mexico. Most investors remember Mobius from his long leadership role in the Templeton Emerging Market Fund. He has won many awards including the "Top 100 Most Powerful and Influential People" by Asiamoney magazine. 2006.More»
Charlie Munger
Charles T. Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation. In 2008, he was ranked #239 on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list with a net worth of 2 billion. Currently Chairman, Wesco Financial Corporation an 80.1%-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.More»
John Neff
John Neff was Senior Vice President and Managing Partner of the Wellington Management Company, the Windsor Fund's Investment advisor.During his thirty-one years as portfolio manager of Vanguard's Windsor and Gemini Funds, John Neff beat the market twenty-two times while posting a fifty-seven-fold increase. A compounded annual growth rate for his investors of 14.8%. An initial $1,000 investment into around $58,700 versus $25,000 for the S&P 500. He retired in 1995.
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James O'Shaughnessy
James O'Shaughnessy is Senior Managing Director of Systematic Equity Investments at Bear Stearns Asset Management managing four funds that bear his name. O'Shaughnessy's strategy grows more rapidly than the S&P 500 out-performing most of the professional investment managers.More»
Jim Rogers
James B. Rogers, Jr. is co-founder, along with George Soros, of the Quantum Fund. He is the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).More»
Lee Shau Kee
"Hong Kong's Buffett, "Asia's Master of Stock"; according to Forbes' list of billionaires as of 2007, Lee was estimated to be worth $19 billion, ranking him 29th among the world's richest people.More»
Stephen Schwarzman
Mr. Schwarzman holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management and on the Visiting Committee of Harvard Business School. He began his career at Lehman Brothers, where he was elected Managing Director in 1978 at the age of 31. He was engaged principally in the firm's mergers and acquisitions business. He eventually became the head of Lehman Brother's global mergers and acquisitions team. With an estimated current net worth of around $6.5 billion, Schwarzman was ranked by Forbes as the 145th richest person in the world.Currently CEO of the buyout firm the Blackstone Group, which he founded with Wall Street grandee Pete Peterson 18 years ago. Blackstone Group has grown into a powerhouse. Blackstone manages nearly $100 billion across private equity, real estate, corporate debt, hedge fund operations.
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Company Profile: The Blackstone Group L.P.
Wall Street's Hottest Hand Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman
Steve Schwarzman Enters the Big League$
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Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim Helu, on March 5, 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Slim as the world's second-richest person, behind Warren Buffett and ahead of former world's richest man Bill Gates. Slim gained notoriety when he led a group of investors that included France Telecom and Southwestern Bell Corporation in buying Telmex and Telnor from the Mexican government in 1990 in a public tender during the presidency of Carlos Salinas. He built an important Mexican financial-industrial empire, Grupo Carso.Today, around ninety percent of the telephone lines in Mexico are operated by Telmex. The mobile company, Telcel, which Carlos Slim Helu also controls, operates almost eighty percent of all the country's cellphones. These operations have financed Mr. Slim's expansion abroad. Over the past five years, his wireless carrier America Movil has bought cellphone companies across Latin America, and is now the region's dominant company, with more than 100 million subscribers.
Company profile: America Movil
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George Soros
In 2008, he was ranked #13 on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list with a net worth of 9 billion; and 97th richest person in the world. George Soros is known for making over a $ billion on a single currency trade and for his Quantum Fund's remarkable track record. in 2007, he was one of three hedge fund managers to take home more than $2.8bn after betting on the mortgage market collapse.More»
The Motley Fools: David & Tom Gardner
The Gardner brothers are founders of the popular Motley Fool website and authors of several books including The Motley Fool Investment Guide : How The Fool Beats Wall Streets Wise Men And How You Can Too. The Motley Fool began as a newsletter but became successful as a content provider for America Online. The Gardners are the least proven of all the "gurus" listed here. However, they have a rich website, a number of newsletters that can be purchased and they generate lots of online content.More»
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