Ranking the top investors

Business Week Online takes a look at the world's top investors and asks: What separates the billionaires from the millionaires? Each saw and acted on an opportunity before anyone else. Think about John Templeton's global investing and David Shaw's tech-based investing. Most of them think very long-term, even though some, like George Soros, made lots on single trades. When you take the group as whole, they are remarkably diverse. The ten biggest brains in investing? John Bogle, Buffet, Shaw, Ken Heebner, Bill Gross, Templeton, Carl Icahn, David Swenson, George Soros, Stephen Schwarzman. What no Henry Kravis? The one you may not know is Swenson, the 53-year old chief investment officer of the Yale University Endowment Fund.  

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