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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

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