Conflict diamonds, the stones sold to finance some of the bloodiest wars in Africa, should be history. But a recent USAID report on Sierra Leone - where these men were sifting old mine tailings for...
It's a warm, sunny afternoon in Beverly Hills. Celebrity jeweler Neil Lane is cruising across town in his convertible Mercedes, mellowing out to doo-wop music. Lane's morning has been frenetic: One...
De Beers has agreed to plead guilty in a decade-long price-fixing case in a move that could allow the world's biggest diamond producer to return to the U.S. market after a nearly 50-year absence, a news report said Saturday.
Last year's bear market decimated the returns of the typical fund manager. But our 10 funds for the year 2001 by and large proved their worth. All but one delivered returns that ranked in the top 4...
Every fifth Wednesday the fax machine at Hertz Hasenfeld's office high above New York City's diamond district delivers a single sheet of paper. One side of the page displays the monthly allocation ...
By birthright, Nick Stein should have been in the diamond trade. Born in Johannesburg and raised in Toronto, he would have been the third generation of his family to earn a living wholesaling the p...
If you wandered through Trafalgar Square on the morning of Sept. 27, past the weathered stone columns of St Martin-in-the-Fields, you might have been surprised to see a group of bearded, black-hatt...
Conflict diamonds, the stones sold to finance some of the bloodiest wars in Africa, should be history. But a recent USAID report on Sierra Leone - where these men were sifting old mine tailings for...
It's a warm, sunny afternoon in Beverly Hills. Celebrity jeweler Neil Lane is cruising across town in his convertible Mercedes, mellowing out to doo-wop music. Lane's morning has been frenetic: One...
De Beers has agreed to plead guilty in a decade-long price-fixing case in a move that could allow the world's biggest diamond producer to return to the U.S. market after a nearly 50-year absence, a news report said Saturday.
Last year's bear market decimated the returns of the typical fund manager. But our 10 funds for the year 2001 by and large proved their worth. All but one delivered returns that ranked in the top 4...
Every fifth Wednesday the fax machine at Hertz Hasenfeld's office high above New York City's diamond district delivers a single sheet of paper. One side of the page displays the monthly allocation ...
By birthright, Nick Stein should have been in the diamond trade. Born in Johannesburg and raised in Toronto, he would have been the third generation of his family to earn a living wholesaling the p...
If you wandered through Trafalgar Square on the morning of Sept. 27, past the weathered stone columns of St Martin-in-the-Fields, you might have been surprised to see a group of bearded, black-hatt...
Last fall, while standing on a rock by the sea in Maine, I asked my girlfriend of eight years to marry me. What took me so long? Well, I spent at least six years wondering whether Kathy would say y...
AUG. 28--OF ALL THE TRAITS I'VE admired in the investment stars I've profiled in this column over the past five years, by far the rarest is humility. So I was intrigued by James Gipson, the self-ef...
On may 10, Nelson Mandela marks his first year as president of South Africa -- and patron saint of MONEY's New South Africa portfolio of 12 stocks (see left). As I reported in our July 1994 issue, ...
Nelson Mandela can claim to be a patriot and peacemaker in South Africa, but he's also a pretty good market mover. Since the president of the African National Congress called for an end to economic...
Starry-eyed lovers with a politically conscious bent would do well to read The Last Empire (Farrar Straus Giroux, $25) before buying an engagement ring. Author Stefan Kanfer's delicious account of ...
To get big profits, it helps to be a big company, but if you can't be that, be a drug company. In fact, fully one-fourth of the companies boasting the highest returns on sales and on assets were in...
Yes, it's glamorous and glittery. But with its disappointing returns of late, gold can also be absolutely galling. So why is Martin Wiskemann, portfolio manager of the Franklin Gold Fund since 1973...
POPE CLEMENT VII was fond of diamonds. Believing they would prolong his life, he began sprinkling a fine dust of the gems over his meals in 1534. The Pontiff should have stuck to pepper. A fortnigh...
THE FORTUNE 500/COVER STORIES 58 WHO MAY THRIVE NOW The 1990s should prove rewarding for many on the 500: those with deep pockets, sharp focus, and the wit to exploit their intellectual capital. by...
THE SOVIET ECONOMY and chaos,'' growled an irate Muscovite as he slammed back a shot of black-market vodka, chasing it with a piece of bread his wife had spent 20 minutes in line that morning to bu...
Investing talent isn't hereditary, but it never hurts to have the right bloodlines. None are more promising than those of David Elliman, the 40-year- old chairman of Stillrock Management in New Yor...
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