Before starting his own firm in 1992, White spent 13 years at Morgan Stanley Asset Management.

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For months Wall Street had been witness to an amiable but very public media debate between Barton Biggs, chief equity strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, and, well, his plumber, Ron Valentine.

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