Biographies

Biographies of famous people in the field of finance.

Mario Gabelli / Mario Gabelli

Mario Joseph Gabelli (Mario Joseph Gabelli) was born 19 June 1942 of the year. He spent his childhood and youth in the Bronx, where he attended primary school first, and then the private Jesuit school for boys at Fordham University. In his spare time Mario, hitchhiking, traveled to the northern suburbs of New York, to Westchester County, where he worked as a caddy (a carrier of golf clubs and other equipment) in leading golf clubs, such as Winged Foot and Sunningdale. There he met many people, have achieved success in life, and these people often talked about investing in stocks. Later Gabelli told, that already in those days I read market reports for my own pleasure, and bought my first shares, when he was all 13 years. Upon graduation, Gabelli received a scholarship and went to college at Fordham University. There he stood out not only with his hair, which at that time was still red, but also desperate enterprise. He always had another get-rich-quick scheme ready., like selling electric flashlights from the trunk of your own car during the period, when the streets and shop windows were poorly lit.

Michael Steinhard / Michael Steinhardt

Michael Steinhard was born 7 December 1940 years in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Steinhard recognized as one of the best investors and hedge fund managers. Founder of Steinhardt hedge fund, Fine, Berkowitz & Co. One of the best traders and investors grew up in Brooklyn, his father was a jeweler. Michael first became interested in stocks, when he was presented with several pieces for one of the holidays, he soon began to go to the local Merrill Lynch branch to check his investments and use the income to buy more shares. After graduation, Age 16 years, Steinhardt went to Wharton School at Pennsylvania State University, where he completed the basic university program in three years.

Linda Bradford Raska / Linda Bradford Raschke

Linda Raschke is a professional trader with 1981 of the year. She started her career as a trading floor trader and later founded the money management company LBRGroup.. Linda Raschke was featured in Jack Schwager's book The New Market Wizards and is well known for her own book, Wall Street Virtuosos.. She has also published a huge number of educational articles on short-term trading in the markets.. You can remove a trader from the exchange hall, but you can't make him forget the habits of the stock market.. Current example – professional trader Linda Raschke, who currently trades from her office, started as a trading floor trader on the Pacific Stock Exchange in 1981. and then on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Although it has already passed 17 years, since she stopped trading in the gym, Linda says, that market principles and methods of analysis, which she was developing at the time., remain an integral part of its trade today. Actually, some of the tools, which she uses today, like oscillator "3-10", are essentially the same, which she took from her first mentor more 20 years ago.

Джон Темплтон / John Templeton

Sir John Marks Templeton (John Marks Templeton) was born 29 november 1912 of the year in the small town of Winchester, Tennessee, in a poor family. While studying at Yale University, which fell on the period of the Great Depression, he was forced to support himself and was used to austerity. IN 1934 year he graduated from the university as the best student in his group, earning the opportunity to continue my studies at Belliol College, Oxford, who graduated, having received a degree in jurisprudence. IN 1937 year Templeton began his career on Wall Street. His hour has struck 1939 year, when World War II began in Europe. Borrowing from your boss $10000, Templeton buys small-cap stocks, traded at the price $1 or below. This risky operation proved to be extremely successful and allowed him to make a profit., four times the loan.

John P. Morgan / John P. Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan I. (John Pierpont Morgan I) – American financier and industrial organizer, one of the most famous financial figures of the two decades before World War I. He organized several of the most important railways and merged the United States Steel, International Harvester and General Electric. Son of a famous financier, Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-90), John Pierpont was born 17 April 1837 G. Hartford, Connecticut, USA educated at Boston and the University of Göttingen. He started his career in 1857 year as an accountant at the New York banking firm Duncan, Sherman and Co ”, who was the American representative of the London firm "George Peabody & Co". IN 1861 Morgan became an agent for his father's banking company in New York. During the period 1864-71 years he was a member of the firm "Dabney, Morgan and Co. ”and c 1871 year he became a partner of the New York firm Drexel, Morgan and Co. ”, which soon became the dominant source of funding for the US government. This firm was reorganized as J.. P. Morgan and Co. 1895, And, largely due to Morgan's abilities, it has become one of the most powerful banking houses in the world.

Bollinger Bands – John Bollinger / John Bollinger

John Bollinger / John Bollinger является президентом и основателем Bollinger Capital Management, investment management companies, providing technical analysis-based wealth management services to individuals, corporations, trusts and pension funds. Bollinger publishes Capital Growth Letter. For many years, John Bollinger was the chief analyst for the nationwide cable television channel Financial News Network. (FNN), dedicated to financial news. He currently continues to provide weekly analytical commentary on CNBC., successor to FNN, and for many years was the Chief Market Analyst at the Financial News Network. The prerequisites for the financial career of John Bollinger periodically arose in his life path from early childhood.. In his book Bollinger on Ribbons (Bands) Bollinger Bands ", the author describes it as follows: “For the first time I encountered the stock market, when I was a child and inherited several Fruhauf shares, companies, which subsequently rolled down, rolled down and, eventually, went bankrupt.

John Bogle / John Bogle

John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (John Clifton “Jack” Bogle). To date, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested by investors in index funds., generating a stable income and characterized by low costs. For a great opportunity to profit from invested capital, without making great efforts and without trying to "outplay" the market, investors have one man to thank - John Bogle. close, colleagues, and often journalists call him Jack.

Joe DiNapoli / Joe Di Napoli

Jo DiNapoli – professional trader, President of Coast Investment Software, Inc." Although its methods are applicable on all time scales and in all liquid markets, DiNapoli prefers intraday trading on the stock market indices most of all. He started trading them ever since, how the index S was introduced&P in 1982. Joe DiNapoli – professional trader and trading veteran with over 35 years of market experience. He is also an avid researcher, an internationally recognized lecturer and well-known author. His formal education is related to electrical engineering and economics. His informal education was in the "Bunker", the so-called trading place, fully equipped with electronics and communication equipment, where most of Joe's early research began. Trader Joe - this is how he signs letters and this is the name of his friends and students, who operate in a wide variety of countries and markets.

Jim Rogers / Jim Rogers

James Biland Rogers Jr. (James Beeland Rogers, Jr.) - American investor, was a co-founder of the Quantum Foundation, is a college professor, author, economic commentator, and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (SAY). Jim Rogers was born 19 October 1942 in baltimore, Maryland. Studied at Yale University, and then at Oxford, where did you study politics, philosophy and economics. In summer 1964 of the year, working for Dominick & Dominick, Jim Rogers really got carried away with what was happening on Wall Street and "plunged headlong" into the life of the financial world. It was here that he returned after graduating from Oxford and serving in the army.. In the early 1970s., having gained experience at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Jim Rogers co-founded Quantum Fund – global investment partnerships. During the next 10 years, the value of the Quantum Fund portfolio has increased by more than 4200%, while the growth of the Standard&Poor’s 500 during this period amounted to approximately 47 %. Aged 37 years old Jim Rogers decided to leave the foundation. He currently manages his own portfolio, teaches finance at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and is a regular commentator and columnist for various media.

Jesse Livermore / Jesse Livermore

Jesse Livermore – great trader started 20 century. One of the earliest trend traders. Among traders and investors Jesse Livermore was known by the nicknames "Young Grip" (Boy Plunger) and "Miracle baby" (Wonder Boy). He became famous for winning and losing millions of fortunes during the stock market crises. 1907 And 1929 years. Jesse Livermore was born in Massachusetts, in a family of farmers, and left home at fifteen, to later become a great trader (according to legend stagecoach, where he left, stopped near a brokerage office, defining the profession of a young man). His mother supported him, unwilling son, per year completed a three-year mathematics course, farmer's fate, father was against. At his first job in Boston, Jesse Livermore wrote quotes on the board at the brokerage office of Payne Webber.

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