Elizabeth Cheval, EMC Capital Chairman, Dies of Aneurysm at 56

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Elizabeth Cheval, the founding chairman of Illinois-based investment firm EMC Capital Management Inc. and a breakout star of a 1980s experiment in whether successful trading can be taught, has died. She was 56.

She died on March 9 at Beijing United Family Hospital, three days after suffering a brain aneurysm during a business trip to China, according to her sister, Susan Mack. She lived in Lake Forest, Illinois.