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  • Jim SimonsSuccess

    The ‘Quant King’ who shook the world of hedge funds with his secretive Renaissance Technologies has died at 86

    By Patrick Oster, Katherine Burton, and others
  • Byron Wien, vice chairman of the advisory services unit at Blackstone Group LP, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Wien said he prefers to invest in recently-formed Chinese companies in growth areas such as technology. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Byron Wien, the ‘nerdy middle-class Jewish kid’ who became a Blackstone and Morgan Stanley legend for his ’10 Surprises’ column, dies at 90

    By Patrick Oster, Dawn Lim, and others
  • Angelo R. Mozilo, Founder and CEO, Countrywide Financial Corporation testifies before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s hearing on “CEO Pay and the Mortgage Crisis” on March 7, 2008 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The hearing will examine the compensation and retirement packages granted to the CEOs of three corporations deeply involved in the current mortgage crisis. AFP PHOTO / TIM SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Angelo Mozilo, who made Countrywide Financial a mortgage powerhouse and then became the face of the 2008 housing crisis, dies at 84

    By Patrick Oster and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 17: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Founder and chairman of Equity International and billionaire businessman Sam Zell visits “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street” (airing Friday July 19th) at Fox Business Network Studios on July 17, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)Finance

    Sam Zell, elfin figure who became a billionaire ‘dancing on the skeletons of other people’s mistakes,’ dies at 81

    By Patrick Oster and Bloomberg
  • Colin Powell dies at 84Politics

    Colin Powell, retired U.S. Army general and secretary of state, dies at 84

    By Patrick Oster and Bloomberg
  • Arne Sorenson, chief executive officer of Marriott International Inc., during a Bloomberg Television interview on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Sorenson, the first non-family member to be chief executive officer of Marriott International Inc., the worlds largest hotel chain, has died. He was 62. Sorenson died on Feb. 15, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. He disclosed a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in May 2019, saying doctors had caught the disease early, and that he intended to continue working while undergoing treatments.Retail

    Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson dies at 62

    By Patrick Oster, Patrick Clark, and others
  • UNITED STATES - JULY 13: Bernard Ebbers, former WorldCom CEO, arrives with his wife Kristie at Manhattan Federal court for his sentencing in New York Wednesday, July 13, 2005. Ebbers, convicted of leading an $11 billion fraud at WorldCom Inc., will learn this morning whether he must spend the rest of his life in a federal prison. (Photo by Adam Rountree/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Leadership

    Ex-WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, ‘telecom cowboy’ sentenced to 25 years in accounting fraud, dies at 78

    By Patrick Oster and Bloomberg
  • David Stern

    David Stern, Who Reshaped NBA Into Global Powerhouse, Dies

    By Patrick Oster and Bloomberg
  • Billionaire David Koch Dies at 79Politics

    David Koch, Industrialist Who Funded Conservatives, Dies at 79

    By Tom Metcalf, Patrick Oster, and others