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...“He was a legendary investor himself,” said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management, who worked with Robertson at broker Kidder, Peabody & Co about 45 years ago before Robertson founded...
...“I think Chase is one of the hardest-working, most intense, most competitive people I’ve ever come across,” said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management who invests in Tiger and also previously...
...The Tiger Cubs “were buying growth today and tomorrow but the earnings weren’t there in some of the stuff they were buying”, said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management, who has previously...
...“Aaron was a great, great man,” said Optima’s Boardman. “It would be too much to say he was responsible for Julian’s success . . ....
...“If you have ‘been to the right schools’, as it were, you can raise money, but for the general run of the mill it is going to be a very difficult period,” said Dixon Boardman, founder of Optima, a fund of...
...Thor Haugnaess, chairman of the independent committee of Dragon’s board that examined the offer, said the committee believed the offer that came as a result of “extensive negotiations” reflected Dragon’s...
...The company was until recently owned by Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson, the Icelandic billionaire who also controlled Landsbanki, the nationalised bank that is Eimskip’s biggest lender and is to become its...
...Optima is one such investor. It runs a $350m fund that buys only the “best ideas” funds of hedge fund managers, each of which holds typically only 10-20 positions....
...The auction was triggered by Thor Bjorgolfsson, Iceland’s first billionaire, who recently appointed Lehman Brothers to advise on what to do with his option to buy 65 per cent of BTC....
...So it’s entirely fitting that the novelist will be the keynote speaker at dinner at Optima’s investor hedge fund conference next month in New York....
...Dixon Boardman, hedge fund pioneer and head of Optima Fund Management, is the sort of Wall Street financier who seems straight out of a Tom Wolfe novel....
...Hopes of a takeover battle fired up Finnish mobile phone operator Saunalahti after Icelandic businessman Thor Bjorgolfsson said he had acquired a third of the company and launched a takeover bid for the...
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