For Whom Wealth Matters
July 17, 2014 Leave a comment
1 Why do you want to get an MBA?
2 Why Harvard?
3 What do you want to do after you get your MBA?
4 What are the biggest challenges/ hurdles to doing it? Have you thought about them? Read more of this post
July 9, 2013 4 Comments
A common way for many middle class people around the world to make money is to migrate to wealthier countries and earn in hard currencies.If you are considering a foreign MBA to make your way abroad to make money,here is an infographic to help you understand the percentage of students who have been able to make a successful transition:
January 6, 2013 Leave a comment
Abigail Pierrepont Johnson,an heiress to a Boston family fortune derived from farming,oil and gas,lumbering,a hotel,real estate services,a bus line and the investment management company Fidelity has a personal net worth estimated by the Bloomberg Billionaires index at $10 billion.She is one of the world’s richest women. She’s also one of the most driven and hardworking. In her 24 years at Fidelity Investments, the mutual fund company founded by her grandfather, Abby has worked through two pregnancies and it is believed a bout with cancer in 2007 .
Abby is termed the Invisible heir.Silence has been her mode for years. She even said little when she was named president of Fidelity Investments Financial Services , making her second in command at the $3.8 trillion mutual fund company. She reports to her father, Fidelity Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Edward “Ned” Johnson III, and her elevation to the No. 2 position arguably makes Abby the most powerful woman in finance.With her ascension, Abby, 51, has become the leading member of what today is still a very small club. In the financial world, only a handful of women have reached the top ranks. Read more of this post
February 22, 2011 2 Comments
Whitney Tilson is a Harvard MBA ,a disciple of the Graham-Dodd -Buffett-Munger school of value investing , an author and a respected value investor.He has also spoken widely on behavioural finance.
He is one of the authors of Poor Charlie’s Almanack.(Click here for more about Poor Charlie’s Almanack https://wealthymatters.com/2011/02/12/poor-charlies-almanack/). He has also authored The Value Investing Course: Essential Strategies for Market-Beating Returns , where he takes the lifelong process of learning how to identify profitable investment opportunities and streamlines these lessons into strategies that will help the reader build a successful investment portfolio’.He also writes a regular column on value investing for the Financial Times and Kiplinger’s and has written for the Motley Fool and TheStreet.com.You can read some of his articles here: http://www.tilsonfunds.com/
Whitney Tilson co-manages T2 Partners LLC with Glenn H. Tongue; this comprises three value-oriented private investment partnerships viz. T2 Accredited Fund, LP ; Tilson Offshore Fund, Ltd ; T2 Qualified Fund, LP and the Tilson Mutual Funds, composed of two value-based mutual funds, Tilson Focus Fund and Tilson Dividend Fund.Whitney Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a for-profit private equity fund focused on minority-owned and inner-city businesses that has raised nearly $500 million. Read more of this post
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