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The quiet man of cars

Filed under Profiles, Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway, Wang Chuanfu - BYD
November 3, 2008 9:51 pm

Just over a month ago – when the Dow Jones index fell nearly 7 per cent, one of Wall Street’s worst days – Mr Buffett’s Mid­American Energy Holdings bought a 10 ... Read more »

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The crazy world of Dr Al Fahim

Filed under Profiles, Suleiman al-Fahim
October 23, 2008 10:10 pm

It  seems fitting that that the biggest stand in the building belonged to Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim. Walking into the vast Cityscape property exhibition in Dubai, the largest real estate ... Read more »

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Richard Perry, hedge fund superstar, hasn’t had a down year in his flagship fund in 14 years.

Filed under Profiles, Hedge funds, Richard Perry - Perry Capital
October 7, 2008 8:49 pm

If you’ve never heard of Perry, that’s no accident. He’s deeply secretive. At 53 he is one of the most successful investors of our time, but until now he has ... Read more »

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Sex, Lies, and Underground Lairs

Filed under Profiles, Henry T. Nicholas III - Broadcom
October 2, 2008 10:37 pm

Henry Nicholas isn’t just another tech-boom billionaire charged with backdating stock options. All the drive, arrogance, and aggression he poured into building microchip-maker Broadcom—one of the major success stories of ... Read more »

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Paranoid’ Mall Baron Lowy Anticipated Slump, Now Fights Taxman

Filed under Profiles, Investigations & Law, Predictions, Frank Lowy - Westfield Group
September 23, 2008 8:45 pm

Billionaire Frank Lowy, Holocaust survivor, one-time Israeli commando and now the world’s biggest shopping mall landlord, raises his hand to his forehead to indicate a shrapnel scar hidden beneath a ... Read more »

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There Will Be Boone

Filed under Profiles, T. Boone Pickens - BP Capital
August 30, 2008 12:39 pm

  Texas Monthly magazine profiles Boone Pickens here: http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-09-01/feature.php In early 2000, Boone made his make-or-break gamble, telling his brokers to take almost all the money they had left and ... Read more »

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Cambodia’s catalytic converter

Filed under Profiles, Kith Meng
August 19, 2008 5:55 pm

About an hour into our meeting, Kith Meng, Cambodia’s leading entrepreneur, dips a finger into an intriguing little flask on his coffee table and applies a fragrant yellow ointment to ... Read more »

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Steel king with magnetic effect

Filed under Profiles, Viktor Rashnikov - Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works
August 11, 2008 8:05 pm

Russian billionaires are a famously footloose bunch. Most make their money in an Arctic oilfield or a Siberian mine, but settle in leafy Chelsea, the south of France or downtown ... Read more »

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Can the new rich buy respect? One Ukrainian oligarch is trying

Filed under Profiles, Victor Pinchuk - EastOne
August 8, 2008 7:16 pm

There comes a time in the life of an oligarch when spending money becomes more important than making it. And for Victor Pinchuk, who became a billionaire and the second ... Read more »

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Last summer he was worth $1.6 billion on paper. Then he nearly died while Bear Stearns collapse

Filed under Profiles, Jimmy Cayne - Bear Stearns Cos.
August 4, 2008 7:03 pm

 In the early morning hours last Sept. 11, a black Town Car pulled up to the entrance of New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Inside the sedan Jimmy Cayne, the CEO ... Read more »

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Mr Sunshine: China’s solar billionaire Shi Zhengrong

Filed under Profiles, Shi Zhengrong - Suntech, Predictions
July 25, 2008 10:41 am

Since founding Suntech Power - China’s largest photovoltaic manufacturer - in 2001, Shi has capitalised on a surge of environmentally driven demand in Germany, the US and elsewhere that has turned ... Read more »

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Pune Billionaire Chases GE With Wind Turning on Cracked Blades

Filed under Profiles, Tulsi Tanti - Suzlon Energy
10:38 am

The lights snap off in the five-story, gray-concrete building in Pune, India, where Suzlon Energy Ltd. — the fastest growing of the world’s top five wind turbine makers — has ... Read more »

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Meeting Dasha Zhukova, Roman Abramovich’s girl

Filed under Profiles, Romance, Roman Abramovich
July 13, 2008 6:35 pm

  Last month, yet another lavish party rocked Moscow. But this was not just any old party: it was Daria “Dasha” Zhukova’s moment. Amid rumours that her oligarch boyfriend, Roman ... Read more »

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Breakfast with the FT: David Bonderman

Filed under Profiles, David Bonderman - TPG
June 22, 2008 2:00 pm

It is 7.30am at the St Regis Hotel in New York and the Astor Court, where breakfast is served, is almost deserted. The St Regis is a staid Midtown hotel ... Read more »

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Asian American billionaire gives to inspire charity in others

Filed under Profiles, Philanthrophy, Cyrus Tang
June 15, 2008 2:26 pm

Steel magnate Cyrus Tang, once described by an Asian American news website as “the most secretive of Asian American billionaires in America,” recently spoke about his philanthropy to a reporter ... Read more »

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A life of passion and grit

Filed under Profiles, Kerry Stokes - SEVEN Network
June 8, 2008 5:55 pm

SEVEN Network executive chairman Kerry Stokes claims he hates to tell the extraordinary story of his own transformation from dyslexic teenage runaway to billionaire tycoon. “That ‘from nothing to something’ ... Read more »

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The World’s First Cocaine Billionaire Is a Woman

Filed under Profiles, Griselda Blanco
June 1, 2008 8:16 am

Colombian-born Griselda Blanco “The Cocaine Godmother” remains one of the most notorious, successful, and dangerous drug lords of all time. Her reputation earned her fear and respect from those both ... Read more »

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FT profiles Anil Ambani

Filed under Profiles, Deals, Anil Ambani - Reliance Energy
May 30, 2008 10:27 pm

Anil Ambani, the Indian industrialist, was on a family holiday in a game park in South Africa earlier this month when the news came. Takeover talks had collapsed between rival ... Read more »

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The Homeless Billionaire

Filed under Profiles, Nicolas Berggruen - Berggruen Holdings
May 20, 2008 12:40 pm

When I first met Nicolas Berggruen, I was struck by two things. First, he was a multi-billionaire I’d never heard of — the most interesting kind. Second, he didn’t own ... Read more »

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Arpad Busson, a hedge fund ‘hippy’

Filed under Profiles, Hedge funds, Philanthrophy, Arpad Busson - EIM
May 19, 2008 12:01 pm

  ARPAD BUSSON was 10 minutes late. As the 44-year-old financier (who is also actress Uma Thurman’s boyfriend) hobbled through the door of his Mayfair boardroom, it became apparent why. ... Read more »

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