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John Petry – Investor Profile

John Petry is another relatively unknown hedge fund manager who has consistently managed to achieve alpha returns in any market condition. Petry’s weighted average return was a phenomenal 205% in the past year, including 22% gains in 2017. John Petry’s Sessa Capital disproves the view that the hedge fund industry is unable to generate alpha returns and is in a crisis. Some of the top-performing funds are small. Moreover, they don’t get much media coverage because they are big fish swimming in a small pond unlike the hedge fund moguls with multi-billion funds under management. So the industry’s titans...

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Ivan Boesky – Investor Profile

Ivan Boesky (March 6, 1937, Detroit, Michigan) former American stock trader amassed a fortune of more than US$200 million by betting on corporate takeovers and placed on the Forbes 400 wealthiest American list Boesky was the face of “greed is good” (until he went to prison). He personified the mid-1980s culture on Wall Street and he inspired Oliver Stone’s Wall Street where the leading character in the film was Gordon Gekko, who was the perfect hero/villain for the decade of greed. Ivan Boesky also reserved his place in history by making it on the cover of Time magazine December...

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Michael Milken – Investor Profile

Michael Milken (born July 4, 1946) epitomized the Wall Street greed of the 80s, he was knick-named the “Junk Bond King” who earned between $200 million and $550 million a year at the height of his success. But Milken will probably go down in history as being the creator of the greatest innovation in the recent history of finance (and it is not the ATM) it is the junk bond. Paradoxically, the 70-year-old would end-up indicted in 1989 for racketeering, securities fraud and insider trading and banned for life from the very game he invented. Indeed, Michael Milken has...

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Martin Zweig – Investor Profile

Martin Zweig (July 2, 1942 – February 18, 2013) was an American stock investor who was known as a forecaster (market timer). In 1987 he warned of a stock market crash, which happened the following Monday. Zweig began trading stocks as a teenager. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s of business administration from the University of Miami and a doctorate in finance from Michigan State University. He initially embarked on an academic career teaching at Baruch College in Manhattan and Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. Martin...

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Sanjay Bakshi – Investor Profile

Sanjay Bakshi is currently an Adjunct Professor at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon where he teaches a popular paper onBehavioral Finance and Business Valuation (BFBV). Sanjay Bakshi is also a Managing Partner at ValueQuest Capital LLP— a SEBI registered investment advisory firm. Bakshi earned an M.Sc. (Economics) from London School of Economics and Political Science and B.Com. (Hons.) from the University of Delhi, India. He is also a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Sanjay Bakshi said that he was not a very good student at the school. However, the only subject he really liked was...

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