In April, for example, he flew his private jet — a Boeing 737 — to Las Vegas to attend an exclusive gathering of fund managers organized by Drobny Global Advisors, where he mingled with other millionaires amid conversations about such arcane investments as Turkish glassmaking stocks and Brazilian farmland.
At the Ira Sohn conference, a gathering of hedge fund investors, speculation was rife that Herbalife would be a focus of a presentation by Mr. Einhorn.
Entitled Winning Moves (a name inspired by chess, so the website image shows a checkmate - but who's being checkmated, eh?), this gathering of "world class funds professionals" will reunite him with Jeremy Paxman, as Paxo will be quizzing selected fatcats and giving a "closing address".
Only this week, Stanley Druckenmiller George Sorosos's former colleague and a big cheese in the hedge fund universe in his own right – took to the podium at the annual gathering of the hedge fund glitterati that is the Ira Sohn Conference, to fume about the Fed's policies and disclose that his biggest "currency" allocation is to gold.
"I'm a big supporter of charities, but I think this is a totally unfair way of gathering funds," says Kemp-Jackson, a communications executive who also runs a parenting blog.
Banking functions -- the gathering and lending out of funds in a responsible manner should become the new banking norm.
The scene where he asks a gathering of Fifth Avenue hedge-fund managers what they would do if they had $50,000 to $200,000 to invest is itself worth the price of admission.
A year later, the rightwing Front National joined with local shops to sue La Grande Mosquée de Marseille, the non-profit group in charge of gathering funds and building the mosque.
The process of gathering funds from big-money donors is significantly streamlined.
There was no noticeable gathering of fans.
Gekko starts out as a worldly wise observer of the scene, telling a gathering of admiring young hedge-fund operators: "You're all pretty much fucked" and: "I once said greed was good, but now it seems it's legal".
