Eli Broad

Billionaire Eli Broad on the Bailout

Filed under Eli Broad, Predictions, Interviews
September 27, 2008 3:13 pm

BusinessWeek  spoke with Broad, who made his fortune in real estate and insurance, largely through holdings in American International Group about the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and where he ... Read more »

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LA billionaire to donate $400 mln for genomics-based research

Filed under Philanthrophy, Eli Broad
September 6, 2008 4:59 pm

– Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad announced Thursday that he will donate an additional 400 million dollars to the genomics research institute named after himself, in hopes that genomics-based medicine ... Read more »

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Broad Says Economy in Worst Slump Since World War II

Filed under Eli Broad, Predictions
July 1, 2008 8:30 pm

Billionaire investor Eli Broad said the U.S. economy is in the worst recession since World War II and a recovery in the housing market is “several years” away.“This is worse ... Read more »

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Eli Broad Pushing for Change at AIG

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June 24, 2008 2:21 pm

Billionaire investor Eli Broad is pushing for change at the world’s largest insurance company, and he discusses the issue with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. watch it at CNBC here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=776637391

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Broad Says Home Prices May Drop Another 20%

Filed under Eli Broad, Predictions
April 28, 2008 8:34 pm

Eli Broad, a philanthropist and co- founder of KB Home, the fifth-largest U.S. homebuilder by revenue, said he expects home prices to drop another 20 percent.“I don’t think we’re anywhere ... Read more »

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Mr. Broad Builds His Dream Museum

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
February 14, 2008 11:09 pm

Eli Broad quit the real estate business years ago, but he hasn’t stopped developing things. His latest project is the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a new wing at the Los ... Read more »

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Broad Museum Set to Open in Los Angeles Without Much Broad Art

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
January 30, 2008 6:31 pm

The Louvre has its “Mona Lisa,” the Museum of Modern Art its Picassos. What does the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have? A new house for works that ... Read more »

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Eli Broad Opts to Hold On to His Collection

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
January 8, 2008 5:43 pm

 Eli Broad, the billionaire financier and philanthropist whose private collection of some 2,000 works of Modern and contemporary art is one of the most sought-after by museums nationwide, has decided ... Read more »

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FT talks to Eli Broad on his philantrophy

Filed under Philanthrophy, Eli Broad, Bill Gates - Microsoft
November 20, 2007 6:52 pm

Financial Times: Why is education such a focus for you? Eli Broad: I think it’s the biggest problem America has. If you really look at drop-out rates, Detroit is the ... Read more »

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CONTEMPORARY (ART) MADNESS

Filed under Eli Broad, Art, Predictions
October 21, 2007 7:26 pm

Billionaire contemporary art collector Eli Broad, who has amassed an 1,800-piece collection and will have a wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) named after him in ... Read more »

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Eli Broad Says Worst `Yet to Come’ in U.S. Home Market

Filed under Eli Broad, Predictions
October 17, 2007 3:14 pm

watch the video interview with him via Bloomberg TV here: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aa3_ANgfCleg

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The Art World’s Most Influential People,Chosen by ArtReview Magazine’s Panel

Filed under Stevie Cohen - SAC, Eli Broad, Art, Francois Pinault - Pinault Printemps Redoute
October 11, 2007 8:46 pm

1. François Pinault Collector, French Two years ago Mr. Pinault, now 71, purchased the Palazzo Grassi on the Grand Canal in Venice, employing Japanese architect Tadao Ando to transform ... Read more »

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Eli Broad to announce $20 million gift to UCLA for stem cell research

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September 10, 2007 7:02 am

Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad is set to announce a $20 million gift to UCLA today to support stem cell research. The gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation will ... Read more »

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NY Times does article on billionaires and charity

Filed under Philanthrophy, Eli Broad, Bill Gross - Pimco
September 6, 2007 7:33 am

Eli Broad, a billionaire businessman, has given away more than $650 million over the last five years, to Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to establish a medical ... Read more »

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Goldman Backer Broad Says Hedge-Fund Woes Infect Art (Update1)

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
August 18, 2007 5:35 am

Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Eli Broad, who’ll help shore up Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Global Equity Opportunities Fund, said art prices will decline as a result of losses by ... Read more »

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Eli Broad pumps money into troubled Goldman hedge fund

Filed under Hedge funds, Eli Broad
August 13, 2007 5:29 am

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and investors including C.V. Starr and Perry Capital LLC will invest $3 billion in the firm’s Global Equity Opportunities Fund after it fell 28 percent in ... Read more »

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Broad-minded about the business of giv

Filed under Philanthrophy, Eli Broad
August 6, 2007 3:32 pm

Eli Broad is a man in a hurry. “I’m working harder now than I’ve ever worked,” he admits from his office overlooking Westwood in Los Angeles. “When I get to ... Read more »

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Eli Broad Gives $1 Million to American Jewish History Museum

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August 3, 2007 6:57 am

  Aug. 2 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad will give $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia to help pay for the construction of ... Read more »

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Billionaire benefactor wants unique museum design

Filed under Projects, Eli Broad
July 28, 2007 1:33 pm

An announcement about which of the five proposed designs for the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum that were unveiled last week will actually become a brick-and-mortar (or steel ... Read more »

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Overvalued but still buying

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
June 13, 2007 4:58 am

Billionaire Eli Broad has bought a Jeff Wall photograph at Art Basel, said his curator Joanne Heyler.The work, a street scene framed in a light box, is Broad’s first major ... Read more »

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Eli Broad talks to Maria Bartiromo about Art bubble

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
June 8, 2007 4:27 am

You are one of the world’s great art collectors, and prices are soaring. Is there a bubble? We may be developing a bubble, especially in contemporary art. And if hedge ... Read more »

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Billionaire donates $26 million to Michigan State University for art museum

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June 3, 2007 3:33 am

Billionaire Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have donated $26 million (€19.35 million) to help build a new art museum on the campus of Michigan State University, the largest individual ... Read more »

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Billionaire philantropist gives $6.5 million to public school

Filed under Philanthrophy, Eli Broad
May 24, 2007 2:39 pm

In his continued effort to bring pressures to bear on the Los Angeles public school system, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has committed more than $6 million to a high-performing charter school group to help it dramatically expand  rest of story here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-broad24may24,0,1206075.story?coll=la-home-center

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