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...Corporate raiders like T Boone Pickens (who appeared on the cover of Time magazine in March 1985) took aim at over-diversified companies, often breaking them up and generating handsome gains for shareholders...
...Boone Pickens and Richard Rainwater’s Mesa Petroleum in 1997 and renamed it Pioneer....
...Among them, Pickens stood out as something special....
...Boone Pickens award, named after the financier who contributes to the magazine. Mr Cruz was warmly received....
...“It is very significant,” says Richard Newell of the US Energy Information Administration....
...This comes in the wake of T Boone Pickens’ disclosure that he had packed his bags as well, selling his 10m share stake at a loss....
...T Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil investor, told the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board this week he had sold at a loss his entire 10m-share stake in Yahoo, bought in May in support of Mr Icahn...
...Boone Pickens and Richard Rainwater, the billionaire US investors whose net worth is estimated at more than $3bn each, have profited from their view of peak oil, through their hedge funds of mainly oil and...
...(Pickens is 117th on Forbes’ richest Americans list, with a $3bn fortune.) That is how Texas built its oil industry....
...Richard Gabbertas, financial services partner at KPMG, the accountants, adds: “Building societies are boring – and boring is good.”...
...Richard Burrows, chairman of the Scotch Whisky Association, said: “The prospects for Scotch whisky are brighter than they have been for many years....
...Boone Pickens and a new breed of voluble investor came along. Nonetheless, knowingly or not, today’s activists are still borrowing heavily from the playbook written by Wolfson and his ilk....
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