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	The Juilliard School - Press - Press Kit
		Kovner was born in New York City and attended public schools in New York and Los Angeles.
		Kovner did consulting work for the United States Congress, the National Science Foundation, the Council of Environmental Advisors for the State of New York, and the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, where he lectured on city politics and public policy problems.
		Kovner is founder and Chairman of the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, which provides scholarships to low-income students from New York City to attend primary schools of their choice.
	www.juilliard.edu /press/kovner.html (354 words)

	Like Father, Like Sun
		Kovner’s Caxton Associates was allowed to escape prosecution and admission of malefaction in the case by paying out tens of millions of dollars.
		Kovner is celebrated in the business press as something of a Horatio Alger figure, the son of a trade unionist who ends up fabulously wealthy.
		Considering nice guy Kovner, the trade unionist’s son who is said to keep his staff on duty 24 hours a day, one is struck by the man’s fascination with high culture and attendance to noblesse oblige.
	parsol1789.blogspot.com /2002_04_07_parsol1789_archive.html (1288 words)

	Bruce Kovner - Interviews and Trading Strategies
		Bruce Kovner started the well-known hedge fund Caxton Associates.
		Bruce Kovner graduated from Harvard College in 1966 but dropped out of the Kennedy School before he completed his Ph.D. Then he began to trade commodities.
		As for the current markets, Bruce Kovner saw (in 2003) the dollar and yen depreciating more, and said, "We still have a very substantial move in gold ahead of us.
	chinese-school.netfirms.com /abacus-hedge-funds-Bruce-Kovner.html (811 words)

	Bruce Kovner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bruce Kovner is also the Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute, the premiere American neoconservative think tank which advises the Bush administration on many day-to-day issues.
		Bruce Kovner's family came to Brooklyn, New York, in the early 1900s from Tsarist Russia, fleeing persecution for their Communist beliefs.
		Bruce Kovner grew up in the San Fernando Valley, where his father had moved the family in 1953.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_Kovner (794 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		Kovner's collection also includes a number of documents with particular relevance to the history of performance, such as Arturo Toscanini's heavily annotated score for Wagner's Die WalkÃ¼re.
		Kovner has graciously declined to have the collection named after him, and has specified that the manuscripts always be identified in Juilliard's name.
		Commenting on the donation, President Joseph W. Polisi states, "We are deeply honored by Chairman Bruce Kovner's decision to allow Juilliard to serve as the guardian of this remarkable group of manuscripts.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles818.html (743 words)

	The Neil Rogers Show - News - George Soros’s Right-Wing Twin - Multibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the ...
		Kovner’s relationship to Moser is similar to Kovner’s relationship to Liz Diller, the high-toned architect of the redesign of Lincoln Center.
		But Kovner, who was the head of the group of seven institutions in the West 65th Street portion of the plan, got behind her, and got others behind her.
		Kovner’s relationship to AEI is the same as his relationship to all his causes: lordly.
	news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2005080213.html (5454 words)

	Bruce Kovner of Market Wizards fame was a student of Michael Marcus. He started at Commodities Corporation
		Bruce Kovner of Market Wizards fame was a student of Michael Marcus.
		Bruce Kovner was also heavily influenced by Michael Marcus (a student of Ed Seykota's):
		Kovner is another in the long line of alumni from the legendary Commodities Corporation.
	www.turtletrader.com /trader-kovner.html (611 words)

	Bruce Kovner: The most powerful New Yorker you've never heard of. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Multibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the patron saint of the neoconservatives, the new Lincoln Center's crucial Medici, owner of a vast Fifth Avenue mansion and the most powerful New Yorker you've never heard of.
		Kovner, 60 years old and divorced, manages the largest hedge fund in the world and every year ratchets higher on the Forbes list of the richest Americans (most recently, 106).
		Kovner sounds like an interesting and likeable man. The Right, oh, excuse me, I should say the HARD right, is fortunate to have a benefactor such as he.
	www.freerepublic.com.cob-web.org:8888 /focus/f-news/1457219/posts (732 words)

	Bruce Kovner - SourceWatch
		Bruce Kovner is the Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute and on the Board of Trustees at the Manhattan Institute.
		Kovner is ranked by Forbes in 2004 as 106th on its list of the World's Richest People with $2.0 billion in assets.
		Kovner is also Chairman of the Juilliard School and founder and Chairman of the School Choice Scholarships Foundation.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Bruce_Kovner (350 words)

	Jay Nordlinger's Impromptus on National Review Online
		Bruce Kovner did the collecting, and he has given his purchases — all of them, apparently to the Juilliard School.
		Kovner is one of the world's great businessmen, and he is also an intellectual and art lover.
		As to Bruce Kovner: What a marvelous life he seems to be living, and what fantastic uses he is making of it.
	www.nationalreview.com /impromptus/nordlinger200603010749.asp (1632 words)

	wcco.com - Music Trove Donated To Juilliard
		Bruce Kovner, who dropped out of a Harvard Ph.D. program and drove a New York taxi before starting Caxton Associates LLC, secretly amassed the priceless collection during the past decade of auction hunting.
		Among Kovner's acquisitions was Beethoven's 80-page piano transcription of the "Grosse Fuge," discovered recently at a suburban Philadelphia seminary.
		Kovner said he hopes the collection will help bridge the divide between scholars, performers and the public by providing common inspiration.
	wcco.com /watercooler/watercooler_story_060093501.html (817 words)

	Law Blog » Rachel Kovner, We’re Not Worthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Kovner, currently clerking for Judge Harvie Wilkinson on the Fourth Circuit, is reportedly a staunch conservative with a Harvard undergraduate degree and reportedly the highest GPA in Stanford Law School history.
		She’s also the daughter of Bruce Kovner, the billionaire financier whose Caxton Associates is one of Wall Street’s most powerful hedge funds.
		Congrats to both Kovner and Scalia for their brilliant careers, one yet to be but apparently guaranteed, at doing both.
	blogs.wsj.com /law/2006/09/13/rachel-kovner-were-not-worthy (576 words)

	Caxton Associates / Bruce Kovner's Mega Fund - Nov-Dec 2005 Holdings Report \| Hedgeinsider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This was Kovner's worst showing in a decade, since he has made 30% annualized gains over the past 22 years through his flagship, $9.6 billion offshore fund, Caxton Global Investments.
		Kovner himself does not trade much anymore, but he deploys capital between managers and he relies on stars such as Aaron Sosnick to earn millions.
		Kovner dropped out of Harvard grad school to find his avocation, spending time at a think tank, writing articles as a music enthusiast, and driving as a NYC cabbie.
	www.hedgeinsider.com /?q=node/50&PHPSESSID=e4599aceca8ff945963e62861bedf215 (332 words)

	Bruce Kovner, the Great Commodity Trader, is featured in Financial World Article at StreetStories.com
		At Caxton, Kovner keeps his staff on duty 24 hours a day to get a jump on impending shifts in interest-sensitive markets worldwide, while he tracks the action before and after trading hours from monitors in his homes.
		Bruce Kovner minted money last year, wresting a hefty net gain of more than 36% from his $2 billion asset pile.
		Kovner, who sports a salt-and-pepper beard and a professorial demeanor, once hoped to earn his living as a scholar and teacher.
	www.streetstories.com /kovner.html (765 words)

	George Soros's Right-Wing Twin - The Most Powerful New Yorker You've Never Heard Of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Kovner’s hedge fund manages the lion’s share of the group’s investments, which grew from $28 million to $40 million in 2003, the latest year collected by Guidestar.org.
		Understanding the Kovner communists of the forties and fifties and their scene is a key to understanding the neocons and their scene.
		Kovner's 60 and is the $11 billion man. Plus Kovner seems to have had more success than Scaife in backing winners, at least lately.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1454466/posts (8217 words)

	Abovethelaw.com
		Kovner -- whom we are determined to turn into a celebrity, whether she likes it or not.
		She was certainly a great deal more friendly to progressives and moderates at SLS than some of our outspoken, ultra-conservative classmates (of whom there were, thankfully, very few).
		Assuming Bruce Kovner (1) doesn't give away much of his fortune to charity, (2) leaves it all to his kids, and (3) doesn't give Rachel the "Nicole Buffett treatment," Rachel would only be looking at a third of his estate -- split with her siblings.
	www.abovethelaw.com /2006/09/rachel_kovner_poor_little_rich.php (671 words)

	PND - News - Juilliard to Receive Major Manuscript Collection
		Billionaire hedge fund manager Bruce Kovner has donated his extensive collection of music manuscripts to the Juilliard School in New York City, the New York Times reports.
		Explaining that he had not added up the purchase prices, Kovner, the chairman of Juilliard's board, was unable to provide the total value of the gift, which includes a score of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 that sold for $3.5 million at auction two years ago.
		Kovner, an amateur pianist, is best known for founding Caxton Associates, which last year managed $10.8 billion in assets.
	foundationcenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=133700009 (377 words)

	Synta Pharma - Team Members
		Bruce Kovner has been a member of our board of directors since July 2002.
		Kovner founded Caxton Corporation, a diversified trading company and manager of client funds active in currency, interest rate, commodity and equity markets, and has acted as its Chairman since its inception.
		Kovner is also Chairman of the Board of the American Enterprise Institute, Chairman of the Board of the Juilliard School, and Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
	www.syntapharma.com /allothermemberbio.aspx?category=sa (928 words)

	Master Trader Bruce Kovner and his methods exposed - can it REALLY be this easy to make profits???
		A secretive futures trader who has earned a 50% return on his $900 million fund, Bruce Kovner is generally associated with hedge-fund meister Michael Steinhardt.
		Kovner lives in Dutchess County, NY and is a music aficionado.
		Kovner, the son of an engineer, grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and has been a Harvard lecturer before getting into interest-rate futures and currencies.
	www.traders101.com /master-traders.asp?trader=Bruce%20Kovner (158 words)

	Bruce Kovner
		Bruce Kovner was estimated to be worth $2.5 billion in 2006.
		Bruce Kovner makes "currency and futures trading judgements based on analyzing the worldwide political and economic events."
		Bruce Kovner obtained his first trading employment by answering an ad in the financial press.
	www.hedgefundsinvesting.com /managers/kovner.html (106 words)

	CNN.com - Juilliard receives rare collection - Mar 1, 2006
		The gift was made by the school's board chairman, Bruce Kovner, who had purchased autograph and working manuscripts, sketches, engravers' proofs and other artifacts over the past 10 years.
		Kovner acquired many of the manuscripts anonymously at auction houses in New York, London and Paris.
		He said he spent time studying the manuscripts, listening to performances of the music represented, and sharing them with his friends, but he realized such treasures would be put to better use at Juilliard.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/US/03/01/juilliard.manuscripts (478 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: The Great Fugue returns
		The Juilliard School announced this morning that the hedge-fund billionaire Bruce Kovner, who is chairman of the Juilliard Board, is donating a remarkable collection of one hundred thirty-nine musical manuscripts and materials to the school.
		It includes the working draft of the four-hand piano arrangement of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge; Kovner, it turns out, was the unnamed person who bought the manuscript at Sotheby's in December.
		Kovner, a somewhat mysterious behind-the-scenes figure in high finance and right-wing politics, has declined to attach his name to the gift; it will be known as the Juilliard Manuscript Collection.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2006/02/the_great_fugue.html (455 words)

	Forums - Prognostication vs Execution
		There's also the truism (that applies more to longer term/macro trading rather than scalping) that these two elements are conflicting skills that are difficult to implement simultaneously; in other words, you can get the timing right, or the direction right, but rarely both at the same time.
		Is it standard for large funds like Kovner's to just deal only with the prognostication side, while handing off the acutal execution to their traders who maintain "no opinion", or more accurately, no committment?
		interesting Bruce isnt principal trader any more, for me entry/exit is about as interesting as researh.
	www.elitetrader.com /vb/showthread.php?threadid=50520 (540 words)

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	Street Stories Guide - Bruce Kovner
		The reason Kovner is in this business is that he find the analysis of worldwide political and economic events extraordinarily fascinating.
		The first rule of trading is don’t get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don’t understand.
		87% over 10 years: "During the past ten years, Kovner has realized a remarkable 87% averaged annual compounded return." MW, Jack Schwager 1989.
	www.streetstories.com /Bruce_Kovner.htm (488 words)

	Abovethelaw.com
		Yes, that's right: Rachel's dad, hedge fund genius Bruce Kovner (at right), is the 93rd richest person in America, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.
		Forbes describes Bruce Kovner as a "[d]evout Republican," who chairs the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and funds the Manhattan Institute, another conservative think tank.
		Random aside: After graduating from Harvard and before going to Stanford, Rachel Kovner worked as a reporter for the New York Sun, the conservative New York daily -- which, by the way, is funded by Bruce Kovner.
	www.abovethelaw.com /2006/09/definitive_proof_that_life_isn.php (613 words)

	Bruce Kovner Article at Michael Covel's 'Trend Following'
		An article about famed trader Bruce Kovner (PDF) worth reading.
		Kovner was heavily influenced by Michael Marcus who in turn was influenced by Ed Seykota.
		I guarantee you will be happy that you took the time...Once you begin reading the book, if you have a choice, I bet you will put it down only for meals and bathroom breaks.
	www.michaelcovel.com /archives/000755.html (145 words)

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