Nine Billionaires; Wealth Spans Real Estate, Technology, Kitchen Cabinets 1 DONALD BREN Owner, chairman, The Irvine Company Estimated worth: $10.5 billion Donald Bren, owner and chairman of The Irvine Company, is estimated at $10.5 billion in wealth this year, up from $8.75 billion at the top of our...
Real Estate, Tech, Banking, Hard Work Made Them Rich; Many Dabble in Politics, Social Issues No. 1 DONALD BREN Owner, chairman, The Irvine Company Estimated worth: $7.5 billion By our estimate, Don Bren got richer in the past year as his greatest asset-land-continued its escalation in value. We decided to...
By Susan Funk, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 26--PIPER JAFFRAY ANALYST MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT INTERPORE: Activity below covers ratings of Orange County companies last week. Not all analysts use the same terms, yet some -- such as...
The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL FORESEES HIGHER EARNINGS: Fidelity National Financial Inc. said Friday it expects to exceed earnings expectations of $1.73 per share for the third quarter because of a gain from...
By Andrew Galvin, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 28--IRVINE, Calif.--Procom Technology, a money-losing maker of data-storage systems, filed Wednesday to deregister its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a change that would free it from ...
By Jim Finkle, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 26--The fall of Orange County electronics maker DDi Corp. hurt employees, investors and creditors but not the venture capitalists who helped bring the company public. At...
By Jim Finkle, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 26--The fall of Orange County electronics maker DDi Corp. hurt employees, investors and creditors but not the venture capitalists who helped bring the company public. At...
By Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 18--Cellular operator TA Orange, a venture between Orange SA and TelecomAsia, plans to list on the Stock Exchange of Thailand next year. Apirak Kosayodhin, chief executive officer of TA...
By James B. Kelleher, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 1--Wall Street closed out the second ...uarter with a wild, wrenching final trading session Monday, punctuating an extraordinary three-month rally that has lifted spirits as well as stock...
By James B. Kelleher, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 11--An Orange County man has been ordered to return millions to the victims of an Internet-related stock fraud he orchestrated and ran. The Securities and Exchange...
By Jane Glenn Haas, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 22--AARP just surveyed 1,013 people between 50 and 70 who are stock owners and found out the majority (54 percent) lost up to 25 percent of their retirement...
By Hang Nguyen, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 13--A small Irvine company hoping to cash in on the growing interest in alternative energy for cars wants to raise $10.2 million from a stock sale. Quantum...
By Danielle Herubin, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--IRVINE, Calif.--Ford Thunderbird. The name conjures up an image of sporty cool, a powder blue two-seater with a porthole window. Now Saleen Inc., the Irvine...
By James B. Kelleher, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 22--LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - An Orange County man accused of running a stock scam that defrauded investors of a half-million dollars has reached a settlement with regulators. ...
The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--WEB GUIDE: 401-k toolkit WHAT: Online guide to fixing up your 401-k plan WHERE: www.smartmoney.com/mag/ CHECK IT OUT: Anybody with stocks or stock funds in a 401-k...
By Diana McCabe, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 19--An Irvine brokerage, whose president describes himself as a religious stockbroker, has been accused of issuing fraudulent research reports that promoted stock in companies that were on the ...
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 23--Step into any brokerage room today and the buzz among investors is inevitably over property, banks or finance stocks. And why not? New home starts and bank profits have risen sharply on the back of...
By James B. Kelleher, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 31--Now comes the hard part. After watching stocks fall for five months straight, most investors are crossing their fingers that September will be easier on their ...
By James B. Kelleher, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 31--Now comes the hard part. After watching stocks fall for five months straight, most investors are crossing their fingers that September will be easier on their ...
By James B. Kelleher, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 18--Orange County's small universe of publicly traded companies may be about to get a lot smaller. At least 21 of the 120 local stocks that trade on major...