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4 unusual facts about Investor's Business Daily


AlphaStar

In 1998 an Egyptian tycoon named Mahmoud Wahba was reported by the Investor's Business Daily to have bought the assets of the failed AlphaStar for $4.65 million.

Brian T. Kennedy

Kennedy has published articles in several national news outlets such as: Claremont Review of Books, National Review, Investor's Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous national newspapers.

CAN SLIM

CAN SLIM refers to the seven-pronged mnemonic publicized by the American newspaper Investor's Business Daily, which claims to be a checklist of the characteristics performing stocks tend to share before their biggest gains.

Windfall profits tax

In a February 12, 2008 editorial titled "Record Profits Mean Record Taxes," Investor's Business Daily said that regular income taxes already take into account the high profits, and that there's no need to do anything extra to tax or punish the oil companies.


Aconex

In September 2008, Aconex secured an A$107.5m private equity investment from US-based technology investor Francisco Partners.

Al Baker

He appeared on the ABC-TV show Shark Tank on December 6, 2013 in which investor and entrepreneur Daymond John agreed to invest, for a 30 percent share, in Queen Ann Inc., the food company started by Baker and Baker's children, Brittany Bo Baker and James Albert London Baker.

Auto-Ordnance Company

Auto-Ordnance Corporation was created by John T. Thompson in August 1916 with the backing of investor Thomas Ryan.

Barefoot Investor

A CNBC produced program, The Barefoot Investor is a half hour show about finance, hosted by Scott Pape.

Bilateral investment treaty

The distinctive feature of many BITs is that they allow for an alternative dispute resolution mechanism, whereby an investor whose rights under the BIT have been violated could have recourse to international arbitration, often under the auspices of the ICSID (International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes), rather than suing the host State in its own courts.

Brad Garlinghouse

He is an active angel investor in hardware company Pure Storage and AI startup Diffbot.

Bryan Meehan

Good friend Ali Hewson (wife of U2 frontman Bono) is the inspiration, investor and ‘muse’ of the brand and supermodels Christy Turlington and Helena Christensen are keen devotees.

Charles Edmund Beard

Beard was elected President of Braniff Airways with Fred Jones, an original Braniff investor, as Chairman of the Board.

Chelsea Clock Company

In 2005, after leading Chelsea Clock for more than 25 years, Leavitt, sold the company to JK Nicholas, an investor in Boston Scientific a business consultant, entrepreneur, and longtime collector of Chelsea clocks.

CIBC World Markets

Guy Adami, TV personality, author, financial analyst and professional investor

Contrarian investing

When purchasing the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that have the highest relative dividend yield, an investor is often buying many of the "distressed" companies among those 30 stocks.

Corolla, North Carolina

Development of Currituck's Northern Outer Banks began in 1967 when investors from Sandbridge, Virginia, put together an investment group to purchase undeveloped land.

District Railway

The District found an investor to finance the upgrade in 1901, American Charles Yerkes.

Drobný

Sheldon Drobny, American accountant and successful investor, formed the company that later became Air America Radio

Elizabethtown, New York

William Gilliland, an investor, bought up large tracts of land in Essex County.

Ephraim Buchwald

Both NJOP and AJOP were initially funded by significant grants from the AVI CHAI Foundation, a Jewish philanthropy established by Sanford Bernstein, a financial investor who had himself become a Baal teshuva (a returnee to traditional Orthodox observance) and sought to further the cause of education and outreach to alienated and assimilated Jews worldwide.

Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr.

Dixon became an owner of and investor in Philadelphia professional sports franchises, including the Eagles, the Phillies, the Flyers, and the Wings, but his most notable sports investment was the Philadelphia 76ers.

Friedman's Inc.

In the latter year New York investor Phillip Ean Cohen and his investment firm of Morgan Schiff & Co. formed a partnership and purchased Friedman's for $50 million from the Friedman family.

Gary P. Brinson

Brinson has been called one of the investment field's "Living Legends" alongside investors such as George Russell, Jr., Warren Buffett, and Bill Gross.

Geneva Securities Convention

In this centralised system, the title transfer of the securities does not take place at the time of the registration on the account of the investor, but within the systems managed by the DTC and/or by the Federal reserve.

Glassell

Andrew Glassell (1827–1901), Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor

ISJ

The Investor Services Journal, a magazine for financial professionals; users and practitioners of investor services.

John Fanning

John Fanning (born December 21, 1963) is an Internet and technology investor and entrepreneur who was a co-founder in 1999 of Napster, an Internet file-sharing service focused on music files that was invented by his nephew Shawn Fanning, along with Sean Parker and Jordan Ritter.

John P. Reese

The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies (February 3, 2009, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0470377093) was co-authored by Jack M. Forehand and examines the approaches used by 10 stock strategists: Benjamin Graham, John Neff, David Dreman, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Kenneth Fisher, Martin Zweig, James O'Shaughnessy, Joel Greenblatt, and Joseph Piotroski.

John Templeton, Jr.

(born February 19, 1940) is the elder son of the stock investor, businessman and philanthropist John Templeton and serves as the Chairman and President of the John Templeton Foundation.

John Wesley Hyatt

In 1895 he hired Alfred P. Sloan, son of a major investor in the company, as a draftsman.

Kazarian

Paul Kazarian, an Armenian-American investor, financier, businessperson, and philanthropist

Keith Belling

Pop singer Katy Perry was signed as a spokeswoman and joined as a minority investor in August 2012.

Kings Mountain, California

Long-time nationally prominent residents include birth control pill inventor and novelist Carl Djerassi; billionaire investor, Forbes columnist, and local historian Kenneth Fisher; and Rock ‘n Roll legend Neil Young.

Kinnernet

Organised by Yossi Vardi, founding investor of ICQ, Kinnernet serves as a think tank for everything Internet, with some 250 attendees.

Mark Ford

Mark M. Ford, American author, entrepreneur, publisher, real estate investor, filmmaker, art collector, and consultant to the direct marketing and publishing industries

Mark Kingdon

Mark D. Kingdon, angel investor, former CEO of Linden Lab and Organic

Martin Zweig

He is also featured in John Reese’s recent book, The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies.

Matrix Partners

Among the firm's notable investments, Matrix Partners was an early stage investor in Apple Inc., Arrowpoint Communications, Digium, JBoss, JustFab, PSINet, SanDisk, Silverstream Software, TheLadders.com, Sonus Networks, Tivoli Software, Tollbridge Technologies, VERITAS Software, Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, and Xilinx.

New York Angels

Among the 75 Accredited Investor members of the invitation-only group are Gideon Gartner (Gartner Group and GIGA), Esther Dyson (Release 1.0 and PC Forum), Alan Patricof (Apax Ventures and Greycroft Partners), Scott Kurnit (About.com), Roger Ehrenberg (IA Capital), Jeff Stewart (Mimeo.com), Jon Whelan (AfterNIC.com), Linda Holliday (Digitas Health) and other technology entrepreneurs.

Pelco

In June 1987 E.L. Heinrich sold Pelco Sales to local investor David McDonald shortly after approving plans for an 80,000 square foot facility in Clovis, California.

Perrin Kaplan

Before leaving Nintendo, Perrin Kaplan oversaw public relations, government affairs, investor relations and internal communications for the Western Hemisphere and played a key role in global coordination inside the Nintendo corporation.

Prometheus Global Media

In 2013, Prometheus investor Guggenheim Partners bought full ownership of the company and installed Ross Levinsohn as CEO.

Ramy Adeeb

Ramy Adeeb is the founder and CEO of social curation platform Snip.it and is a former venture capitalist investor in start-ups such as Square and Groupme.

Rennert

Ira Rennert (born 1934), an American investor and businessman

Stanley Druckenmiller

In July 2008, Druckenmiller emerged as a potential investor in the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise of the National Football League.

Stephen Pagliuca

Stephen Pagliuca (born January 16, 1955) is a private equity investor, managing partner of Bain Capital, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics.

Strawbridge

George W. Strawbridge, Jr. (born 1937) American educator, historian, investor, sportsman, and philanthropist

The Intelligent Investor

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd.

Thom Calandra

Calandra was editor of the 2002 book How America Made a Fortune and Lost Its Shirt. He was an investor in Bambi Francisco’s Vator.tv.

United Autosports

In the 2012 season, United Autosports became among the first customers for the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 car and ran two examples in the Blancpain Endurance Series for drivers Zak Brown, Mark Blundell, Mark Patterson, Alvaro Parente, Matt Bell and David Brabham.

Walter Cunningham

In 1974, he graduated from Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program and later worked as a businessman and investor in a number of private ventures.

Wanda Shelley

Shelley entered into production as an executive producer/investor in the 2002 independent feature film The Book of Love, also directed by Jeff Byrd and starring Sallie Richardson, Robin Givins, Treach of Naughty by Nature, and Richard T. Jones of Judging Amy.

What's Good For You

For the series' spring special in 2008, Thornton was replaced as host by Lisa Wilkinson, and Rochford was joined by new presenters Shelley Craft, landscaper Melissa King and the "Barefoot Investor" Scott Pape.


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