Focus
Ich kaufe in Berlin
Published: 2011-05-02
Nicolas Berggruen hat kein Zuhause. Sein Anwesen auf einer Privatinsel vor Florida hat er lange schon verkauft. Auch sein Nobelapartment mit dem weiten Blick über den New Yorker Central Park – das war einmal. Nicht eine einzige Wohnung hat er in den letzten Jahren für sich selbst erstanden oder gar angemietet.
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Financial Chronicle
Will you give up tennis and do more writing?
Published: 2011-03-17
Would you give up tennis?” The question is startling because, first, it comes out of the blue. And, secondly, because it comes from Nicolas Berggruen, one of the world’s super rich and we have been talking money (his bag full of it, my lack of it).
Fortune India
Master of All Trades
Published: 2011-03-01
Judging by the names of his acquisition vehicles, 49-year-old German-American Nicolas Berggruen, president, Berggruen Holdings, could easily be the activist investor or Batman of the private equity world. His latest billion-dollar fund Justice is the third in a trilogy of funds Liberty and Freedom. Globally, he’s leveraged complicated, special purpose acquisition companies to execute three large multi-billion dollar mergers.
Der Spiegel
A Billionaire's Mission to Create a Better World
Published: 2011-02-09
Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen, the owner of Germany's Karstadt chain of department stores, makes do without a home and has no personal attachments. Now he seems to have found his great mission. He wants to make democracy work, and to create a better world.
India Express
All the world his workplace, billionaire at home in hotels
Published: 2011-02-06
He has assets of over $2 billion, spread across the world, in businesses ranging from rice farms in Cambodia to equipment rentals in India to windmills in Turkey. But he has no home to call his own. He is perpetually on the move, from one hotel room to the other, living permanently out of a suitcase.
The Wall Street Journal
Berggruen Sees Buyout Pearls
Published: 2010-07-08
Nicholas Berggruen, an inveterate deal maker, sees plenty of pearls on the sea floor.
The Financial Times
Prisa seals $900m Liberty deal
Published: 2010-02-06
Prisa has secured an injection of up to $900m under a merger deal with a US vehicle run by Nicolas Berggruen, the "homeless billionaire ", and Martin Franklin, a former tennis partner of "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap.
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Business Today
Footloose Fortune Hunter - Billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen is on the prowl
Published: 2008-08-24
HE DOESN’T LIVE IN A HOME because he’s constantly on the move.
The Financial Times
Enigma Who Reaps Special Rewards
Published: 2008-05-20
On a chilly afternoon in New York, just as the lunch crowd was starting to gather, Nicolas Berggruen sat down at his usual table outside Café Boulud, a few blocks away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Wall Street Journal
Putting His Money Where His Values Are
Published: 2008-05-19
Nicolas Berggruen became a billionaire through classic value investing. Now, he is switching to a new strategy. Call it "values investing." With rice farms in Cambodia, windmill farms in Turkey, an ethanol plant in Oregon and glittering new skyscrapers in poor inner cities around the world, Mr. Berggruen is pumping millions of dollars into projects that he hopes will both expand his fortune and alleviate social ills.
