But he backed up the publicity stunts with phenomenal returns.
Sure, the deals might offer phenomenal returns, but they might also be worthless.
The firm's traders, in Greenwich, Conn., produced phenomenal returns -- 28.1percentt in 1994, 58.8percentt in 1995 and 57.5percentt in 1996.
"There have been some phenomenal returns," said the president of one company that specialised in viaticals, "but there have also been some horror stories where people live longer".
Then, in February, after her boyfriend came into a sizable inheritance, they began plotting how to get in on the phenomenal returns that they had been hearing about in high technology.
Indeed, the phenomenal returns from venture investments in technology and telecommunications over the last couple of years have dimmed the health care sector's status as a durable long-term holding.
Although there is a certain segment of the tennis public that fears the rise of Raonic and the return of the staccato point, it will be particularly interesting to see how Raonic's net game matches up with Murray's phenomenal returns and passing shots.
"The phenomenal returns of American venture capitalists have attracted almost everyone and their brother from overseas," says Karl Ma, a venture capitalist in the West Coast office of an Asian fund.
