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Soros hands the reins to son

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros has handed the leadership of his $37 billion empire to his son, Alexander. Specifically, the 37-year-old heir will lead Soros' charitable Open Society Foundations and political action committee ...

Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... Mechanism (ERM) on the 16th of September of the same year - sending the British currency crashing by 18.2% and making George Soros tons of money for betting against the pound. I don't know what the Latin term is for a year that's worse than "annus ...

Kerr Neilson steps down as Platinum chief

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... head of retail funds management at Bankers Trust (BT) Australia and established Platinum in 1994 with backing from George Soros. In an interview with Financial Standard sister publication FS Private Wealth, he described investing as being like "passive ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... a happy New Year welcome to 2016. It was spooky - as the Australian Financial Review headlined on the 8 January, "George Soros see echoes of 2008 crisis". The quote: "When I look at the financial markets there is a serious challenge which reminds me ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... who see the current global economic and financial backdrop shaping up to be a repeat of 2008. Early in the New Year George Soros made headlines with the CNBC headline: "Soros: It's the 2008 crisis all over again". This was followed not many weeks later ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... macroeconomic ammunition to fight downturns is essentially all used up". This sounds like an echo of Billionaire investor George Soros' statement, "When I look at the financial markets there is a serious challenge which reminds me of the crisis we had ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... failed. The BOE reportedly sold around A£15 billion worth of reserves in a day trying to defend its currency. It lost, George Soros and the markets won. If the PBOC governor's timing is to be believed, further yuan weakness could be coming soon - he ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Investment Advisors Act 1940. It's a loop hole big enough for a 10 ton truck to drive through," he said. In 2011 George Soros took advantage of the exemption and changed the structure of his Quantum business from a hedge fund to a family office. In doing ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... recovery that went as fast as 4.4% annual rate less than two years later. A lesson for Greece perhaps... and potential George Soros' out there - the man who reportedly pocketed US$1 billion in profits betting on the "poundxit" of the ERM. Alan Greenspan ...

Financial services stars named in rich list

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... Known as "the Wizard of Oz", Coffey has accumulated his $532 million fortune trading for BT Investment Management, George Soros-backed Blue Border, Bank Austria, GLG Partners and Louis Beacon. Aussie Home Loans executive chairman John Symond dropped ...
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