The Rothschilds' Hedge Fund Guru
Georges Karlweis is courtly, conservative--and a big winner
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On a quiet street not far down the hillside from Geneva's venerable St. Pierre Cathedral is the Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild. If you were considering investing your money there, what you would find inside the redoubtable stone building would not discourage you. The dark red wallpaper and Dutch Old Masters paintings convey an air of authority and prudence. So does Georges Coulon Karlweis, the courtly banker you might be meeting for lunch.
Karlweis, 68, the bank's vice-chairman and top investment strategist, has been managing money for Edmond de Rothschild since 1959. And conservative as he may seem with his dark suit and carefully weighed phrases, Karlweis is one hell of an audacious--and successful--investor.