International investing’s hottest hands

COVER STORY

Their styles may be worlds apart, but these five managers have all shown a sure touch for global markets

by Alyssa A. Lappen
Institutional Investor | July 1, 1993

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David Fisher, emerging markets
Comparison shopping in the third world

David Brennan: Pacific Basin equities
Getting the hang of being a ‘hong’
Baring International Investment Far East’s Asia Pacific Fund

Mark Turner: global fixed income
A trading mentality, a global itinerary

Charles Brandes: non-U.S. equities
Ben Graham’s ambassador-at-large

Herbert Gullquist: global equity
Defying conventional wisdom

Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 63-68
5,282 words


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Unisys Under Attack

COVER STORY

Can Jim Unruh Clean up the mess?


by Alyssa A. Lappen
CFO | November 1991


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Surviving the Last Big Buyout of the Eighties

COVER STORY

How Jerry Richardson of TW Holdings is bearing up under $2.4 billion in debt.

by Alyssa A. Lappen
Corporate Finance | April 1991



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Have Calculator, Will Travel

Who strikes terror into the hearts of corporate con men, insurance swindlers and unscrupulous financiers?

By Alyssa A. Lappen |
Forbes | January 1991

Two old chums are walking along the beach. “You wouldn’t believe my business,” says one. “My main factory just burned down.”

“That’s nothing,” his friend replies. “My main factory just got flooded.”

“Oh, yeah?” says the first fellow. “How do you do a flood?”

How do insurance companies protect themselves against fraudulent, or simply inflated, claims? Meet Chris Campos, whose Teaneck, N.J.-based Campos & Stratis is the nation’s largest independent investigative ac counting firm. Continue reading “Have Calculator, Will Travel”


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A retailer for the recession

Forbes | Nov. 12, 1990

By Alyssa A. Lappen

“What do you know about retailing?” demanded Monroe Milstein’s father when the younger man wanted to buy an apparel retail outlet 18 years ago. As it turns out, the young man knew quite a lot.

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