"He's very shy, a normal fellow, a family person who leads his own life and feels it's none of the public's business, " says Jerry Seslowe, chairman of Resource Holdings, a private investment firm in Manhattan he started with Anschutz and the late billionaire Jay Pritzker.
Several resource-sector shares fell, amid uncertainty over Chinese demand growth and after a firm U.S. dollar pressured commodity prices in New York Wednesday.