Billionaire's Apprentice The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund

Name: Billionaire's Apprentice The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund
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ISBN: 9781455504022

ISBN-10: 1455504025

ISBN-13: 9781455504022

Edition: 2013

Authors: Anita Raghavan

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Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now...The collapse of the Galeon Group--a hedge fund that managed more than $7 billion in assets--from criminal charges of insider trading was a sensational case that pitted Preet Bharara, himself the son of Indian immigrants, against the best and brightest of the South Asian business community. At the center of the case…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Cast of Characters


Prologue The Twice Blessed



Discovery



"Who Will Show Me the Way in the World?"



"I Respectfully Decline to Answer the Question"



A Family Affair



Drama at IIT



Birdie Trades



Promises to Keep



The Good Ship Galleon



Rising



No Ask Hacks



"The Tamil Tiger" of Wall Street



Up or Out at McKinsey



The Camera Never Lies



The Corner Office



Raj's Edge



Building Offshore-istan



Partying and Polycom



Playing for Team USA



The Wharton Mafia



Reeling in Roomy



Falling



Moonlighting at McKinsey



A Vanaprastha on the Hudson



The Dishonorable Dosco



On the New Silk Route



The Million-Dollar Man



"You've Gotta Be a Hustler"



The Richest Maid in Silicon Valley



The Wire



"I Played Him Like a Finely Tuned Piano"



A Friend on the Board



A Tragic Call



"Buy Goldman Sachs, Buy Goldman Sachs"



Trading at the Setai



Handcuffs for Breakfast



Trials



"Why Is It So Quiet Around Here?"



"He's a Bad Man"



The Gupta File



Kumar Sings



An Unhappy Diwali



Et Tu, Kumar?



A Family Secret


Afterword


Acknowledgments


A Note on Methodology


Notes


Index


About the Author