TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Trader Monthly 100
April/May 2007
The Trader Monthly 100
You needed to make £25 million last year to make our fourth annual list. Capitalism's ultimate honour roll.
Shanghai Nights
After a decade of spectacular boom, China's financial capital has been transformed into an empire of indulgence and excess. On the Town in China's Trading Capital.
Master of Time
When Marcus Margulies sells a watch, it matters. We talk timepieces with London's premier trendsetter.
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Driving in Style
Wheels of Fire
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THE CONCEPT OF asset-sharing car clubs is well and good: A yearly fee gives you an allocation of points you can use against a fleet ...
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Royal Yacht
Open Waters
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AS THERE IS little half so much worth doing as messing about in boats, yacht fractionals seem a good idea: Why spend 100 percent of ...
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Master of Time
Wrist Worthy
By
Tolga Kadioglu
WHEN MARCUS Margulies sells a watch, it matters. The owner of Time Products Luxury Watch Division, including the prestigious Marcus store at 170 New Bond ...
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The Cruelest Twist
Is yoga killing you?
NEED EVIDENCE THAT yoga — for eons practiced mainly by boneless circus freaks and elongated Abbie Hoffman types — has gone thoroughly mainstream? Look no ...
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Insider Info
Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
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Grieving by Giving
How Marathon Asset Management’s Andrew Rabinowitz channeled his sorrow into saving the lives of newborns
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Eric Capper
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ON JULY 13, 2006, Andrew Rabinowitz’s wife, Phyllis, gave birth to a girl named Rebecca, the couple’s second child. But their joy lapsed into grief ...
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Cape Crusaders
Trading Spaces
By
Andrew Barber
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NO COUNTRY IN AFRICA — even the continent’s economic powerhouse, South Africa — is typically included on any list of global trading hotspots. Determined to ...
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English Lessons
Recapture the scintillating sounds
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WITH CITY TRADERS snapping up all the posh real estate and British markets overtaking those of New York in the public-listing standings, London’s a pretty ...
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High/Low
Pipeline Surfing
Check your fear at the door and get ready to ride the wild waves
By
Jonathan Hoenig
Check your fear at the door and get ready to ride the wild waves
of natural-gas volatility. They don’t call it “the widowmaker” for nothing ...
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Buyer’s Remiss
When Time Warner announced its historic deal to merge with AOL, the entire world took notice. I took a bath
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AS THE OUTLANDISH stock-market surge of late 1999 continued into early 2000, I had my sights set on California. My mission: to become a successful ...
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Iron Man
He’s the most durable man in commodities, a walking testament to the sheer joy of trading. Trader Monthly
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Lizbeth Scordo
FIFTY YEARS IS a long time to be in any business. It’s an extraordinary amount of time to spend trading, a vocation in which even ...
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Fightin' Fuld
Whether trading blows with an obnoxious hockey fan or locking horns
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ABOUT EIGHT YEARS ago, around the time Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld was fighting off yet another batch of rumours that his firm was on ...
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Stay Hungry
A winning streak can affect your judgment — and, paradoxically, cause you to miss out on even bigger opportunities
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Johnny Chan
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I SEE A LOT of players quit a game way too soon. I’m not just talking about leaving the table. More often than not, “quitting” ...
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Just Eat It
Anyone can make money. But how effective are you at losing it?
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Doug Hirschhorn
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Anyone can make money. But how effective are you at losing it? Many traders fail to grasp this part of the game. It’s time to rediscover the lost art of taking losses By Doug Hirschhorn
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Fat-Cat Tilt
The investment field is becoming so overly skewed toward the biggest players
By
Ken Grant
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The investment field is becoming so overly skewed toward the biggest players that it’s only a matter of time before there’s only one skin left in the game By Ken Grant
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DIRECTIONS
Welcome to the Boomtown
Home Equity
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During the past decade, Manhattan’s luxury real-estate market has enjoyed history’s most prolonged — and profitable — bull market. Today, with dozens of spectacular high-end high-rises shooting skyward from the island, it shows little sign of slowing. Behold New York’s newest castles in the sky
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About the Trader Monthly 100
You needed to have made £25 million in 2006 just to gain admission to this list. You needed £500 million in annual comp to crack the Top 5. Behold capitalism’s ultimate honour roll — the Trader Monthly 100.
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The Trader Monthly 100: #1-10
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader Monthly 100
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You needed to HAVE MADE £25 million in 2006 just to gain admission to this list. You needed £500 Million IN ANNUAL COMP to crack the Top 5. Behold capitalism’s ultimate honour roll — the Trader Monthly 100.
By Rich Blake, Robert LaFranco and Leah McGrath Goodman illustrations by Adam Walko
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The Trader 100: #11-20
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: #21-30
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: #31-40
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: # 41-50
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: # 51-60
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: # 61-70
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: # 71-80
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: # 81-90
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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The Trader 100: # 91-100
It took £25 million just to make the cut. Our top five each topped £1 billion. The fourth annual Trader Monthly 100 lists the absolute best traders in the business.
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Armed and Dangerous
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Shanghai Nights
The Life
After a decade of spectacular boom, China’s financial capital has been transformed into an empire of indulgence and excess. Behold our user-friendly guide to the Far East’s new Wild West
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Porsche Versus Plane
Wheels
Just how fast is the 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo? We set it up in a 240-mile race against an equities trader and . . . a DC-9
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Laptops of Luxury
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Meet the year’s sleekest, most revolutionary notebooks — the supercars of the computer set
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Clear Winners
Liquidity
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These new super-premium vodkas may be, by definition, odorless and flavorless — but they still manage to taste exceptional
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Hot Times in the CIty
By
Lauren Lawrence
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