Wall Street People: True Stories Of Today's Masters And Moguls

The first complete Who's Who in the history of the world's best-known financial streetCharles 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. Masters Of Investing -- Bernard M. Baruch 3 -- Albert J. Hettinger Jr. 6 -- Roy Neuberger 8 -- Benjamin Graham 14 -- David L. Babson 19 -- Philip Fisher 22 -- Charles Allen Jr. 26 -- John Hay Whitney 31 -- Benno Schmidt 35 -- Fayez Sarofim 41 -- Michael Steinhardt 45 -- Laurence A. Tisch 47 -- Warren Buffett 54 -- Charles T. Munger 61 -- Jack Dreyfus 63 -- Howard Stein 70 -- John Templeton 72 -- Paul Miller 77 -- Claude Rosenberg 79 -- Robert Kirby 84 -- Dean Lebaron 90 -- Peter Lynch 92 -- John B. Neff 97 -- Leon Levy And Jack Nash 100 -- Barton Biggs 103 -- Julian Robertson 106 -- George Soros 110 -- Philip Carret 115 -- Movers And Shakers -- Saul P. Steinberg 121 -- William Zeckendorf 124 -- Roland Rowland 128 -- James Goldsmith 133 -- Carl Icahn 137 -- Albert And Paul Reichmann 142 -- Bruce Wasserstein 146 -- Scarsdale Fats 150 -- Alfred W. Jones 155 -- Gerald Tsai 158 -- Fred Alger 162 -- Jerry Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, And George Roberts 165 -- Business Builders -- Longstreet Hinton 173 -- Hermann J. Abs 174 -- George S. Moore 178 -- David Rockefeller 183 -- George S. Johnston 189 -- Jonathan Bell Lovelace 191 -- Arnold Bernhard 197 -- Edward C. Johnson Ii 199 -- Edward C. Johnson Iii 202 -- John C. Bogle 206 -- Joseph K. Klingenstein 207 -- T.j. Carlyle Gifford 208 -- Siegmund Warburg 210 -- Henry Grunfeld 220 -- David Scholey 223 -- Maurice (hank) Greenberg 226 -- Sanford Weill 232 -- James D. Wolfensohn 238 -- Henry Crown 241 -- Albert H. Gordon 244 -- John L. Loeb 250 -- Gustave Levy 251 -- John C. Whitehead 252 -- John L. Weinberg 259 -- Robert H.b. Baldwin 266 -- Alan C. (ace) Greenberg 268 -- Pete Peterson And Lewis Glucksman 270 -- Donald Regan 277 -- Michel David-weill 279 -- William Salomon 283 -- John Gutfreund 288 -- John Meriwether 290 -- Michael Bloomberg 295 -- Richard H. Jenrette 298 -- Wisemen And Rascals -- Sidney Homer 303 -- Henry Kaufman 306 -- John J. Mccloy 309 -- William Mcchesney Martin Jr. 311 -- Paul Volcker 314 -- Alan Greenspan 319 -- Gary Lynch 324 -- Ivan F. Boesky 326 -- Dennis B. Levine 329 -- Martin Siegel 331 -- Michael Milken 334 -- Robert Maxwell 335 -- Nicholas Leeson 338. Charles D. Ellis, With James R. Vertin. Includes Bibliographical References. 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 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. Writing with James R. Vertin, author Charles D. Ellis presents brief profiles of 85 Wall Street leaders who contributed to the growth of the world's major financial marketplace. The authors divide these individuals - all men, which tells a tale right there - into four slightly arbitrary groups: masters of investing, movers and shakers, business builders, and wisemen and rascals. The collection is drawn from the other writers' pieces about these men, and includes occasional articles the featured financiers wrote themselves. Apart from a few brief notes about some patterns that the author observed, these excerpts from various sources stand alone, with no overarching theme or exposition. getAbstract keenly feels the lack of a few analytical essays that might have pulled the collection together and integrated it thematically, but even so, this serves as a useful research tool and an interesting introduction to a unique confluence of powerful men A fascinating collection of stories from the annals of Wall Street looks back on the colorful personalities who make this district the most profitable in the entire world, profiling Jesse L. Livermore, Joseph P. Kennedy, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, among others. In evaluating individual companies three main factors should be examined.