His friend and former boss in the army, Steven Nadudvary, says Hintze was a misfit there.
Adjacent competency is something Hintze talks a lot about, where CQS can apply its expertise in related areas.
Instead, Hintze, 53, pours his money and his spare time into philanthropy.
Hintze's private life, naturally, is something he has tried to keep--well, private.
And the way CQS is growing, Hintze will be making a lot more money--and writing a lot more checks to his favorite charities.
But Hintze is certainly not frugal when it comes to philanthropy.
Hintze's career started far from Wall Street or the City, but instead in the Australian Army, where he quickly climbed the ranks to become a captain.
Michael Hintze might run a big and successful hedge fund, enjoy a view of Buckingham Palace's gardens from his office and boast the title of papal knight.
Todd Morley of G2 Investment group, who co-founded Guggenheim Partners hedge fund, and Michael Hintze, a City of London veteran and CEO of the CQS hedge fund.
So although he's seriously wealthy, Hintze is anything but flashy.
Hintze's advantage seems to be his knack for synthesizing different fields of knowledge, something that can be seen through his education, passion for the arts and various career choices.
Microsoft's Mr. Hintze said that the company removed the code after being contacted by Mr. Mayer, and that Microsoft is still trying to figure out why the code was created.
Left stranded as borders closed and exit permits took a long time to obtain, they weren't able to flee to Australia until October 1953, when Hintze was 3 months old.
Canyon Partners LLC, a money manager founded by bond experts from the former "junk"-bond shop Drexel Burnham Lambert, and CQS, a London hedge-fund firm founded by U.K. millionaire Michael Hintze, recently launched new investment funds to take advantage of bargains in distressed mortgage debt.
So far, Fujitsu has invested tens of millions of dollars in WiMax technology, and Hintze believes that WiMax will likely pick up faster in Europe and Asia than in the U.S. Still, the company wants to benefit from the growth in North America and has already deployed one small WiMax network in Rhode Island, used by local businesses, with the wireless CLEC TowerStream.
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