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Writing with James R. Vertin, author Charles D. Ellis presents brief profiles of 85 Wall Street leaders who contributed to the growth of the world’s major financial marketplace. The authors divide these individuals – all men, which tells a tale right there – into four slightly arbitrary groups: masters of investing, movers and shakers, business builders, and wisemen and rascals. The collection is drawn from the other writers’ pieces about these men, and includes occasional articles the featured financiers wrote themselves. Apart from a few brief notes about some patterns that the author observed, these excerpts from various sources stand alone, with no overarching theme or exposition. getAbstract keenly feels the lack of a few analytical essays that might have pulled the collection together and integrated it thematically, but even so, this serves as a useful research tool and an interesting introduction to a unique confluence of powerful men.
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Charles D. Ellis was a managing partner of Greenwich Associates for 28 years. He taught courses in investment management at Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management; served as a trustee on the investment committees of Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University and the Whitehead Institute, and was chairman of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR). James R. Vertin was the founding manager and chief investment officer of Wells Fargo Investment Advisors, which grew to become Barclays Global Investors, one of the world’s largest investment firms.
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