Julian Robertson, 90, Dies; Brought Hedge Funds Into the Mainstream - The New York Times

His driving insight was that one could make money just as easily by betting that a company’s stock would fall as by betting that it would rise.

He started as a sales trainee at Kidder, Peabody & Company and worked his way up through the brokerage ranks while building a reputation for finding bargain stocks. But in 1978, tired of the rela… [+1137 chars]

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