Flashcards: Stock and commodity market managers

Richard Herman Driehaus (/ˈdriː.haʊs/) (born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American fund manager, businessman and philanthropist.

Victor Sperandeo, known as “Trader Vic”, is a US trader, index developer, and financial commentator based in Grapevine, Texas, United States.

Ward Chipman Pitfield, Jr.

Rigged: The True Story of a Wall Street Novice who Changed the World of Oil Forever is a book by author Ben Mezrich.

Richard J. Dennis, a commodities speculator once known as the "Prince of the Pit," was born in Chicago, in January, 1949.

Edward Crosby "Ned" Johnson III (born June 29, 1930) is an American investor and businessman who, along with daughter Abigail Johnson, owns and runs Fidelity Investments and Fidelity International.

Mario Joseph Gabelli (born June 19, 1942) is an American stock investor, investment advisor, and financial analyst.

Michael Dever is an American businessman, futures trader, entrepreneur, and author.

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 – July 11, 1962) was an American financier and co-founder of E.

Jean-Louis Lévesque, CM OQ (April 13, 1911 – December 28, 1994) was a Canadian entrepreneur, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist.

John Edward Madden (1856–1929) was a prominent American Thoroughbred and Standardbred owner, breeder and trainer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

John Fitzwilliam Stairs, also known as John Fitz William Stairs (January 19, 1848 – September 26, 1904) was an entrepreneur and statesman, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a member of the prominent Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs (1789–1865) that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant Stairs.

Mansoor Ijaz (born August 1961) is a Pakistani-American venture financier and hedge-fund manager.

Herbert A. Allen Jr.

Michael W. "Mike" Vranos is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who in the 1990s was referred to by some as the "most powerful man on Wall Street.

Emmanuel Lemelson (born Gregory Manoli Lemelson on June 29, 1976) is an American-born Greek Orthodox priest, hedge fund manager, social commentator and former businessman.

Indrajit Solomon Arulampalam (known as Jitto Arulampalam) is an Australian businessman of Sri Lankan Tamil origin.

Bill Lipschutz is a foreign exchange market (forex) trader and the co-founder and Director of Portfolio Management at Hathersage Capital Management.

Blair Hull (born September 3, 1942) is an American businessman, investor, Democratic politician, and philanthropist.

Eugene C. "Gene" Cashman (October 7, 1921 - April 6, 2000) was an American policeman turned businessman and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner.

Fayez Sarofim (Arabic: فايز ساروفيم‎‎) (born 1929 in Egypt) is a Coptic American heir to the Sarofim family fortune, fund manager for a number of Dreyfus family stock funds, an original and second largest shareholder of Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) and part owner of the NFL team Houston Texans; ranked 5th Most Valuable NFL team worth $1.

Galen Luther Stone (November 21, 1862 – December 26, 1926) was an American financier and philanthropist.

James Beeland "Jim" Rogers, Jr.

Jun Song (born July 19, 1975 in Seoul, South Korea) is a former investment manager from New York City, New York and the winner of the CBS reality show Big Brother 4.

Kenneth Lawrence Fisher (born November 29, 1950) is an American investment analyst and the founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, a money management firm with offices in Woodside, California, San Mateo, California, and Camas, Washington.

James J. "Jim" Cramer (born February 10, 1955) is an American television personality, former hedge fund manager, and best-selling author.

Linda Bradford Raschke (/'ræʃki/) is an American commodities and futures trader.

Ivan Frederick Boesky (born March 6, 1937) is a former American stock trader who is notable for his prominent role in a Wall Street insider trading scandal that occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s.

Peter Andreas Thiel (/ˈtiːl/; born October 11, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and hedge fund manager.

Marc Rich (born Marcell David Reich; December 18, 1934 – June 26, 2013) was an international commodities trader, hedge fund manager, financier and businessman.

Yan Huo is an American hedge fund manager.

Ewan Kirk (born 25 February 1961) is the CEO and co-founder of Cantab Capital Partners, a systematic hedge fund based in Cambridge, England.

Anthony R. Chiasson (born August 27, 1973) is an American hedge fund manager and co-founder of Level Global Investors LP, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund management firm.

Michael Edward Platt (born March 1968) is an English hedge fund manager, the co-founder, chief executive officer, and principal of BlueCrest Capital Management, Europe's third-largest hedge-fund firm.

Christopher Tsai is a Chinese-American businessman and investment manager.

Joseph Ritchie (born 1947) is an options and commodities trader, international businessman, presidential advisor, serial entrepreneur, aviator and father of ten.

David Alan Tepper (born September 11, 1957) is an American hedge fund manager and the founder of Appaloosa Management.

John Alfred Paulson (born December 14, 1955) is an American hedge fund manager and billionaire who heads Paulson & Co.

Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (/ˈmeɪdɒf/; born April 29, 1938) is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier.

Harry W. Lange (born February 25, 1952 in Gaylord, MI) is a Boston-based investment manager.

Anne Dias-Griffin (born 1970) is an American money manager and philanthropist.

Louis Moore Bacon (born July 25, 1956) is an American hedge fund manager, trader and founder of Moore Capital Management.

James E. "Jim" Stowers, Jr.

William Albert Ackman (born May 11, 1966), is an American hedge-fund manager.

Tom Sosnoff (born March 6, 1957) is an entrepreneur, options trader, and co-founder of Thinkorswim and tastytrade, and founder of Dough, Inc.

William Huntington Reeves (born 1963/1964) is an American businessman and the co-founder of the hedge fund, BlueCrest Capital Management.

Thomas William Lawson (February 26, 1857 – February 8, 1925) was an American businessman and author.

Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American businessman.

Barton Michael Biggs (November 26, 1932 – July 14, 2012) was a money manager whose attention to emerging markets marked him as one of the world's first and foremost global investment strategists, a position he held—after inventing it in 1985—at Morgan Stanley, where he worked as a partner for over 30 years.

Dr. Henry George Jarecki (born April 15, 1933) is a German American academic, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.

Manuel P. Asensio (born December 30, 1954 in La Habana, Cuba) is a money manager in New York best known for his pioneering work as an activist short-seller.

Mohnish Pabrai is an Indian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

Robert Emmet Brennan (born 1944) was an American businessman who built the infamous penny stock brokerage firm, First Jersey Securities.

Robert Michael Fomon (January 3, 1925 - May 31, 2000) was an American financier who was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of E.

Ronald Stephen Baron (born 1943) (also known as Ron Baron) is an American mutual fund manager and investor.

Thilan Manjith Wijesinghe is a Sri Lankan financier, entrepreneur, former cricketer and musician.

Michael H. Steinhardt (born December 7, 1940) is an American hedge fund manager, financier, investor, newspaper publisher, and philanthropist active in Jewish causes.

Bruce Stanley Kovner (born 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American businessman.

Charles Biderman (born October 24, 1946) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrimTabs Investment Research, Inc.

Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader.

Mark Spitznagel (born March 5, 1971) is an American hedge fund manager, derivatives and commodities trader, author, and sustainable farmer.

Martin Edward Zweig (July 2, 1942 – February 18, 2013) was an American stock investor, investment adviser, and financial analyst.

Alex Mascioli is an American businessman and investor.

Arthur Deane Nesbitt OBE, DFC, CdeG (16 November 1910 – 22 February 1978) was a Canadian businessman and a decorated pilot and Wing Commander in World War II.

Arthur James Nesbitt (August 19, 1880 - October 24, 1954) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who was a cofounder of Nesbitt, Thomson and Company stockbrokerage and the Power Corporation of Canada.

Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher Jr.

Charles Hayden (July 8, 1870 – January 8, 1937) was an American banker, businessman, financier and philanthropist.

Dennis B. Levine (born August 1952) was a prominent player in merger and acquisition business and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s.

Edward Arthur Seykota (born August 7, 1946) is a commodities trader, who earned S.

Edward Scott Lampert (born July 19, 1962) is an American businessman and investor.

James Patrick O'Shaughnessy (born May 24, 1960) is an American investor and the founder, chairman, and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC (OSAM), an asset management firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.