Coleman has been betting on the turnaround of some of the most beaten up tech stocks lately, disclosing stakes in companies like Groupon and Facebook, two companies that staged high-profile initial public offerings that became controversial after their stocks quickly collapsed.
They helped decide to limit Palin's initial media contact to high-profile interviews with Charlie Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, which all McCain sources admit were highly damaging.
Singapore's inquiry into Mr. Todd's death comes after the man's parents waged a high-profile campaign challenging the police's initial findings of suicide.
Initial public offerings and other securities activities have a radically different risk profile than sophisticated buyers and sellers setting the price on a private company in a fully-negotiated transaction.
But after advances in DNA technology, the police decided to approach men seen during the initial investigation and asked them to provide a mouth swab which was then compared with the DNA profile.
Some snooty observers of Macquarie's initial overtures to the LSE dismissed them as publicity-seeking on the part of a bank keen to raise its profile beyond the shores of Australia.