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- #title#Anna Diaz-Griffin: not only wife of the billionaire#/title#
- #txt# <img src="D:\_Zennoposter\Blogger\Woman-probe\images\anna-dias-griffin-ne-tolko-zhena-milliardera.jpg" alt="Anna Diaz-Griffin: not only wife of the billionaire"> <p> Investments - man's occupation. Reaction speed, psychological stability, aspiration to victory, aggression - all these essentially important qualities of the successful managing director of investment fund are badly combined with usual ideas of women. But there are also exceptions.</p><p>To the one who is in investments actively interested, names of Karen Faynerman (Karen Finerman) under control of whom in 2007 there were $400 million in Metropolitan Capital fund, or the most successful of the female investor of Great Britain of Elena Ambrosiadu (Elena Ambrosiadou), the native of Greece are for certain known. They have achieved great success in the business. Thus many female managing directors perfectly manage to combine successful investments with private life. For example, the executive director has Newton Fund Management (its assets make about $75 million) Helena Morrissey (Helena Morrissey) - eight children. The truth their education while the wife earns money, generally is engaged the husband.</p><!--more--><p>In New York the special investment fund Pomegranate Capital Management which invests only in the <u>hedge</u> funds managed by women works even. Such in 2007 was about three hundred, and the capital managed by it has reached $55 billion. No wonder that Pomegranate Capital Management fund the woman - Susan <em>Shafer</em> Cuolowei (Susan Shaffer Solovay) also manages.</p><p>And though any woman did not manage to achieve in management of assets the same success yet as to John Paulson or George Soros, all of us have equally considered that <em>these</em> clear heads and beauties are worthy the separate story. Even if outside not holiday on March 8 for which newspapers and magazines usually prepare stories about women in "man's" professions. 37-year-old Anna Diaz - the brilliant intellectual and a little mysterious figure in investment business, the wife of the owner and the executive director of Citadel hedge fund Kenneth Griffin.</p><p>The popular press periodically enters it in lists of "wives of millarder", but actually, Anna Diaz-Griffin - quite independent woman.</p><p>The best student and secret society</p><p>Diaz was born in France and very much loves this country (we will remind what exactly in the French Versailles in 2004 its wedding with Kenneth Griffin has taken place). She traveled across Europe and America much, lived in Belgium, Germany, France, the American New York and Boston. It is perfectly formed, speaks five languages, studied at Dzhordzhaunsky university, and then - at business school in Harvard (its Harvard scientific work is devoted just to the French pension system).</p><p>It would seem, outstanding career and quite "transparent" life. But when you start studying the biography of the wife of Kenneth Griffin in more detail, the extremely interesting details emerge. For example, during study at Diaz's university consisted in student's brotherhood of Phi Beta Kappa ("Fi - beta kappa", from the Greek motto philosophia biou kubernetes - "love to wisdom - the leader of life") - one of the oldest and most reputable student's societies in the USA.</p><p>Distinctive feature of the organization existing since 1776 there is its semi-privacy: its device and the true purposes is not let not members of PhBK know. And especially we will emphasize that to become the member of PhBK, the student has to possess really outstanding abilities. Among owners of sign of this society - gold key - it is possible to call such famous people as U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr., senator Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the film director Terence Malik, the <b>famous</b> communist Angela Davies, the U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the head of FRS Ben Bernanke, writers John Updike and Makl Crichton, the American Ministers of Defence Robert McNamara and Caspar Uaynberger. At last, from PhBK often distinguish the present wife from famous women the president of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko Katerina and the Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.</p><p>The similar organizations (among which PhBK - the most dear) are considered as the closed clubs of the western elite within which political, economic and cultural leaders of society can freely exchange opinions, without the stereotypes imposed by their image. Diaz has confirmed the right to be in PhBK, having graduated from the university that summa cum laude (Latin is called) - with the appreciation from possible.</p><blockquote>Soros's school</blockquote><p>After the termination of university of Diaz worked as the simple financial analyst in investment division of Goldman Sachs in London and New York, then - has passed into the London company Fidelity Investments Limited, and at last, having already received MBA degree - in Soros Fund Management based by George Soros. There from analysts it was raised to managing directors of portfolio in which generally there were papers of the companies which are engaged in retail trade. In 1999 when Soros has <b>closed</b> Soros Fund Management, Diaz has passed into Viking Global Investors - the fund specializing on investments into the media industry and stocks of the Internet companies. Having accumulated experience, in 2001 it opens own fund Aragon Global Management which purpose were also investments into media, technologies and telecommunications worldwide (generally in Europe and Latin America).</p><p>The business</p><p>The site of Aragon fund differs in extreme laconicism. Extreme - even to measures of extremely closed hedge funds, whose sites seldom contain more than one page. The main page of fund represents in fact the business card: the white rectangle located in the upper left corner with black letters: postal address and phone. More company does not want to report about itself anything.</p><p>The initial capital has come to Aragon generally from Julian Robertson (Julian Robertson) - the investor, famous in the 90th years, the founder of Tiger Management Corp fund. They were familiar with Diaz nearly ten years by then: Robertson was her research supervisor in Harvard. Some years later Robertson still actively participates in fund of the former student (though does not open the volume of investments), and says that has great respect for her talents. "At Anna is the drive, energy and mind to be the outstanding managing director", - he speaks, adding that to everything listed it is necessary to add also charm which at Diaz is also a lot of.</p><p>That the female investor <em>buys</em>: media, fertilizers and politicians</p><p>For the end of 2007 under control of Aragon there were slightly less than $60 million. As for investment tools, it is known that Aragon among other things owns papers of Apple, educational corporation Apollo Group, Goldman Sachs, Pepsico, Time Warner, the Chinese telecommunication company China Unicom, the Indian bank HDFC Bank, and even the Russian Vympelcom - that is the strategy declared by the management of fund in general is maintained. However, actions not of telecoms, and producers of the Mosaic Co and Potash Corp Of Saskatchewan fertilizers which have grown on by 77,9% and 70,2% respectively became the most grown paper from Aragon portfolio for the <em>last</em> six months. Whether Kenneth Griffin who has forced it to move from New York to Chicago participates the capitals in fund of the wife - it is not known.</p><p>Diaz says that the most difficult in work of its fund is "to break through" to heads of the companies with whom it is necessary to work. That to make it, she should travel much and with might and <u>main</u> to use female charm and language skills. But efforts of justify: "In Chicago we are considered nearly as the biggest specialists on questions of the international investments", - the foundress of Aragon notices.</p><p>Aragon does not stir this "rank" and personally Díaz to be put and in "assets" directly in the USA - for example in politicians. It is interesting that the political forces supported by Aragon are on opposite political platforms, and only one integrates them: that they win. For example, in 2004 the Aragon fund has offered $29,500 for presidential campaign of George Bush. But in 2007-2008 in presidential race money approximately in the same volume went already to the representative of democrats Barack Obama. Fund and personally Díaz also in large sizes support candidates of the State of Illinois on elections to the Senate of the Congress of the USA.</p><p>Intellectual entertainments</p><p>It is known of Diaz's character a little. Her acquaintances note that it is womanly, charming, possesses excellent taste and always perfectly looks, but thus loves extreme entertainments, for example - with pleasure participates in car racing (her husband Kenneth Griffin too has passion to sports cars). Still she adores playing poker - and, according to acquaintances, mental abilities of Diaz allow it to play so excellent that persons interested to battle to it remained very little. Possibly, she has not found times described in the brilliant book of Michael Lewis "Poker of liars" any more, but the love of financial bigwigs to this game is, seemingly, eternal.</p><p>Díaz and her fund actively participate in charity events, and as acquaintances speak, it really does it absolutely sincerely. Since 2001 the foundress of Aragon is included into Board of Directors of Friends of Island Academy (FOIA) which helps to study and find work to the former teenage prisoners, and in recent years actively participates in work of Robin Hood Foundation fund and women's organization of WomanOnCall.org.</p><p>Also the passion Griffinov to art is known. In addition to numerous purchases of works of painting and sculpture, the couple even has offered $19 million. To the Chicago institute of arts (Art Institute of Chicago) - but as it has appeared not just like that, and for sentimental reasons. In the building of this institute two financiers arranged the first appointments. As Griffin notices, it was the love at first sight for three: not only at it with future wife, but also at both of them - to the fine museum full of knowledge </p>#/txt#
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