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...Richard Florida, a leading guru of urban creativity, goes so far as to call the Amazon contest a “race to the bottom”....
...A Morningstar “Manager of the Decade” in 2010, Mr Berkowitz’s mutual funds have since trailed the market....
...Perry, a hedge fund led by founder Richard Perry, and Fairholme, an investment firm led by Bruce Berkowitz, own preferred shares in Fannie and Freddie, which guarantee US mortgages and invest in mortgage-backed...
...The aggrieved parties in that matter include such investors as Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman, Fairholme Funds’ Bruce Berkowitz and Perry Capital’s Richard Perry....
...Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds and Richard Perry’s Perry Capital are among the investors to have sued the government over its treatment of the US mortgage companies....
...“There’s very strong student interest,” adds Maeve Richard, assistant dean and director of Stanford’s career management centre....
...Bill Ackman, the activist investor and long-time foe of Mr Icahn, has a large stake, along with Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds, while Richard Perry of Perry Capital and John Paulson have also joined the...
...Mr Berkowitz started building his stake in early 2013. “They were clearly going to be profitable,” he says....
...Perry Capital, an $8.7bn hedge fund built by Goldman Sachs alumnus Richard Perry, began buying preferred shares in 2010, and Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Fund put 6.9 per cent of its assets into Fannie and...
...We can’t confirm all the details of that report, but the conversations we’ve had suggest that Berkowitz won’t be around too much longer....
...Advertising had previously been overseen at Microsoft by Steve Berkowitz, the executive in charge of its internet group, who will now head only the part of the business that is responsible for attracting...
...As Steve Berkowitz, new head of online services, says in this interview in the FT, a new user interface and better marketing of Windows Live would help....
...Mr Berkowitz joined IAC last year, after Mr Diller bought Ask Jeeves – since renamed Ask.com – to try to build a counterweight to Google and Yahoo!...
...“MySpace has to morph into some form of community-based portal,” says Steve Berkowitz, head of Microsoft’s online services business....
...Richard Nixon, before his untimely demise, reflected the mood in 1971 when he declared his “war on cancer”. That was just another of the US’s unwinnable conflicts....
...They include John Paulson at Paulson & Co, a fund manager; Bruce Berkowitz at Fairholme Capital Management, a private equity fund; and Leon Cooperman at Omega Advisors, a hedge fund....
...Richard Bernstein, Merrill Lynch Rich Bernstein is not afraid to make bearish calls. Last year, he pegged the S&P 500 to end 2004 at 890, a touch low....
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