| LC control no. | n 98096038 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jones, Alfred Winslow, 1900-1989 |
| Variant(s) | Jones, Alfred Winslow, 1900- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Redding (Conn.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1900-09-09 |
| Death date | 1989-06-02 |
| Place of birth | Melbourne (Vic.) |
| Place of death | Redding (Conn.) |
| Field of activity | Hedge funds |
| Profession or occupation | Portfolio managers Journalists Sociologists |
| Found in | Life, liberty, and property, 1998: CIP t.p. (Alfred Winslow Jones) LC prem. file, 10-27-98 (hdg.: Jones, Alfred Winslow, 1900) Wikipedia, September 11, 2016: Alfred Winslow Jones (Alfred Winslow Jones (9 September 1900--2 June 1989), a sociologist, author, and financial journalist, is credited with forming the first modern hedge fund and is widely regarded as the father of the hedge fund industry ... Jones was born in Melbourne, Australia ... He moved to the United States with his family when he was 4 ... doctorate in sociology at Columbia University ... completed his doctoral thesis, Life, Liberty and Property, a survey of attitudes toward property in Akron, Ohio ... During the 1940s Jones worked for Fortune magazine ... Jones had established an investment partnership, A.W. Jones & Co. ... Died ... Redding, Connecticut, United States ...) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Winslow_Jones> New York Times, via WWW, viewed September 11, 2016: "Alfred W. Jones, 88, Sociologist And Investment Fund Innovator," by John Russell, Published June 3, 2016 (Alfred Winslow Jones, an investor who founded one of the first hedge funds on Wall Street, died in his sleep yesterday morning [June 2, 1989] at his home in Redding, Conn. He was 88 years old ... He also had an apartment in Manhattan. Besides being an investor, Mr. Jones was a sociologist, humanitarian, author and former officer of the United States Foreign Service ... His doctoral thesis ''Life, Liberty and Property,'' ... was published by Lippincott and became a standard sociology textbook ... From 1941 to 1946, Mr. Jones was an editor at Fortune magazine ... In 1949, he founded one of the first hedge funds ... In later years, he gradually disengaged himself from his office and gave his time to the Peace Corps and the Reverse Peace Corps ...) <http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/03/obituaries/alfred-w-jones-88-sociologist-and-investment-fund-innovator.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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