With a great feeling of loss and sadness, I want to join with so many others to mourn the passing of Ted Forstmann, the brilliant financier, entrepreneur and free-market capitalist. A Wall Street ...

Ted Forstmann, the billionaire private equity investor and philanthropist, died Nov. 21 of brain cancer. He was 71. He was viewed as a pioneer of the leveraged buyout and took over companies such as ...

Ted Forstmann, a prominent financier who made many of his most high-profile investments in the media sector, died Sunday. He was 71. The cause of death was brain cancer, according to a spokesman at ...

NEW YORK — Theodore J. Forstmann, a longtime Wall Street financier who was a major player during the wave of corporate takeovers in the 1980s, including the battle for RJR Nabisco in 1988, died Sunday ...

NEW YORK - Theodore J. Forstmann, a longtime Wall Street financier who was a major player during the wave of corporate takeovers in the 1980s died Sunday at the age of 71. The cause was brain cancer, ...

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Ted Forstmann was a hard-nosed financier. But the buyout pioneer, who has died at 71, re-engineered companies, not just their balance sheets. He was also an industry contrarian when it came to junk ...

Ted Forstmann has been railing against the evils of credit since before KKR levered up RJR Nabisco, so it’s no surprise that he’s speaking out about the current crisis. In a recent interview with ...

In 1990, the late private-equity tycoon Ted Forstmann (left) saw Donald Rumsfeld, who sat on his firm Forstmann Little's advisory board, as a big name who could help market an IPO for his company ...