Barton Biggs - money manager and global strategist at Morgan Stanley.

Barton Biggs - money manager and global strategist at Morgan Stanley.

Career Biggs on Wall Street can be described as famous. After graduating from Yale University in 1955, Biggs became an English teacher in La ndon School, while playing semi-professional football and trying to write "The Great American Short Story".

In 1961, he joined EF Hutton at an annual salary of $ 7.200. Biggs moved to Morgan Stanley in 1973 as managing director and partner (the first of the post, who is generally outside the company). He formed and developed the research department of the company and served as chief strategist until his retirement in 2003. His attention to emerging markets, mark it as one of the world's first and foremost global strategists, a post created in 1985, Morgan Stanley, where he worked for more than 30 years.

After his retirement Biggs based in Connecticut-based hedge fund Traxis Partners. Why has embarked on this strenuous activity in his eighth decade? Biggs says it is ready to leave Morgan Stanley, but not to retire. He had no interest in any golf or as cruises to the Greek islands. "Above all," he added, "I do it because investment professional is the best game in the world, and I feel happy to be racing."

He has a very big impact on investment markets in recent years of the twentieth century. SmartMoney wrote: "It would not be wrong to say that Biggs has written a book on investment in emerging markets." He also predicted the bursting of the Internet bubble of the shares over a year before it happened.

The public Biggs was known (and loved) by frequent on TV.
Although not able to write "The Great American Short Story", Biggs has written several books on the industry, including the critically acclaimed "Hedgehogging", "A Hedge Fund Tale of Reach and Grasp" and "Wealth, War and Wisdom" .

He has three children and nine grandchildren. And another famous investor - Stanley Druckenmiller is married to the niece of Biggs - Fiona Biggs.

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