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哈佛获校史上最大单笔捐款
捐赠者靠买卖股票期权起家
消息来源: 世界日报
发表于: 2014-2-21 04:07
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哈佛大学89届校友、对冲基金经理、亿万富豪格里芬向该校捐赠出1亿5000万美元，成为校史上最大的单笔捐赠。（图：哈佛大学提供）
哈佛大学宣布获得校史上最大的单笔捐赠，该校89届校友、对冲基金经理、亿万富豪格里芬（Kenneth C. Griffin）向母校捐出1亿5000万元，其中1亿2500万元将用于学校的财政资助项目，包括创建200个命名为格里芬的新奖学金;另外2500万元暂未定使用方法。格里芬是在哈佛大学宿舍买卖股票期权起家，后创建了投资公司Citadel。作为回报，哈佛大学将其财政资助办公室和主任的头衔以格里芬命名。
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从未尝试过股票期权。五年前，这里一位朋友曾做过，小本金蒙对过一次上涨三倍，他的夫人分享喜讯时春风满面。后来，杳无音讯。
两年前再见面时，他说后来很快就连同本金赔掉了，其中有一句深刻体会： “ 你就是方向做对了，（有时）也挣不着钱 ”。 可见，操控股票期权庄家的阴、损、刁、恶。
由此更可见，Kenneth Cordele Griffin 这位爷的功力 —— 可谓登峰造极，
惊天地、泣鬼神 ！
关于游泳，我所知道的是，手大脚大，手长脚长，以及关节伸展性好，都是一个优秀运动员的标准。我所不知道的是，为什么我在美国每周都去游泳，回来还是比好久没游过泳的同事亚婕慢很多。我也不知道，为什么很多游泳没有两年的小孩子，比练游泳时间更长、身材也更高大的成年人游得快。只能用水感来解释。
还有一点，不知道是我过度解读了还是的确如此，游泳是一项混合好几种泳姿的运动。每种泳姿用到的肌肉群不同，技术自然也不同，同时比赛时游的距离从50米到1500米不等。但在游泳比赛中，兼项的情况非常普遍，而且顶尖的选手往往都是兼项好手，既能来自由泳也能来混合泳，既能游200米也能游400米。我想，这是不是因为水感在这项运动中的重要地位呢？
是不是因为，水感好的运动员，
也就是我们所说的天才，
容易在不同单项上全都占优势呢？菲尔普斯的北京奥运8金让世人瞠目，伊恩·索普则在雅典奥运会上成为百年不遇的在100米、200米、400米自由泳项目上都获得奖牌的选手。
所以要我说，游泳，就是一项出天才的运动。
http://365jia.cn/news/2012-08-04/7A57E3DE45A752B8.html
所以要我说，Kenneth Cordele Griffin
同志就是一位股感天才。
Kenneth C. Griffin is an American hedge fund manager. He was the founder of Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago based hedge fund, and remains the President and CEO. The Citadel group of hedge funds rank amongst the largest and most successful hedge funds in the world, and Griffin has earned several billion dollars during his tenure with the company. For several years Griffin avoided extensive press coverage in a manner similar to other hedge fund managers such as billionaire Steven A. Cohen.
Hedge funder Ken Griffin and hedge funder wife Anne Dias-Griffin just bought a gorgeous home at the Four Seasons Hualalai in Hawaii (via WSJ).
The home was on the market for $20.5 million, and Griffin bought it for $17 million.
This is Griffin's second piece of property at the resort, after he bought four acres for $11.4 million in 2009.
The home is 5,600 square feet
The decor gives the house an island feel
Gazaebo with a view of the Pacific
A bedroom, also with a view
Perfect place for a serene and peaceful vacation
Plenty of outdoor seating
Gorgeous, crystal clear waters
Almost every room has a view
Big kitchen with top of the line appliances
Early career[edit]
He got his first fund with $265,000,
including money from his grandmother.
After graduating with a degree in economics in 1989, he won the attention of an investor named Frank C. Meyer, founder of Glenwood Capital. Meyer was amazed at Griffin's success and rate of return with his investments
(which at the time were largely based
and provided a relatively small investment for Griffin to invest ($1 million).[8] Griffin exceeded Meyer's expectations and according to The New York TimesMeyer made 70%. As word of his strong performance spread, investors were persuaded to back Griffin. In a video interview on Opalesque.TV Meyer describes the keys of seeding new managers, as he did with Griffin. He says that all managers have strengths and weaknesses.
CEO of Citadel[edit]
Citadel was officially founded November 1, 1990 with $4.2 million; the name "Citadel" was chosen to suggest strength in times of volatility.[9] With Citadel quickly growing, it began to perform well.
In 2008, the performance of several of Citadel's key funds including its Kensington and Wellington funds was down 35% in the year to October. The average hedge fund was down approximately 18% in 2008.[10]
Wealth accumulated[edit]
In 1986, Griffin became interested in investing after reading a Forbes Magazinearticle.[11] After nearly twenty years, Griffin has appeared numerous times in the magazine's Forbes 400;
as of 2008, his wealth was estimated at $3.7
billion. By 2011, his wealth estimated by
Forbes had fallen to $2.3 billion, making him the 512th richest person in the world.[1]
His first appearance on the Forbes 400 was in 2003, with an estimated net worth of $650 million. At 34, he was the second youngest on the list (Ziff Davis heir Daniel Ziff was the youngest).[12][13] In September 2004, Fortune Magazine ranked Griffin, who was 35 that year, as the eighth richest American under forty in the category of self-made, USbased wealth[14] In 2006, Griffin was the 5th youngest of only seven members of theForbes 400 under the age of 40.[15]
His 2004 compensation was reportedly $240 million,[16] slightly higher than his 2003 compensation ($230 million).[17] His 2005 compensation was ranked 13th at $210 million[18] among the top 25 highest paid hedge fund managers.[19] Reflecting the strong investment performance of his funds, Griffin is reported to have taken home $1.7bn in 2006 and $2.8bn in 2007, of which salary was estimated to reach $1.5 billion in 2007.[20]In 2007, Griffin was had an estimated net worth of $3 billion.[21] In 2012, Griffin buys what is, at the time, the most expensive condo in Chicago, for 15 million dollars, on the 66th floor of the Park Tower.[22]
Reputation[edit]
In 2001, the first in-depth write-up featured Griffin on the front cover ofInstitutional Investor magazine, with the tag line "Just 32, he wants to run the world's biggest and best hedge fund. He's nearly there."[23] In June 2002, Griffin was included in CFO Magazine's Global 100, a list of the most influential people in the world offinance.[24]
In 2004, the Financial Times compiled an "alternative rich list" that titled Griffin as the "most precocious" on the list,[25] and Fortune Magazine called Griffin "the youngest of the rich hedge fund managers".[26] After it became known in 2006 that Citadel would be the first hedge fund manager to issue publicly traded debt bonds, the Financial Timesspeculated that Kenneth Griffin may now be "the most feared man on Wall Street".[27]
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