The Stock Whiz You Never Heard Of
Low-key Joe DiMenna scores big gains at Zweig-DiMenna
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On Wall Street, where name recognition is half the sizzle and people are tripping over themselves to get on TV, Joseph A. DiMenna, co-founder of the Zweig-DiMenna partnerships--the fifth-largest hedge fund--is about as low-key as you can get.
"Joe DiMenna is the best stock-picker no one has ever heard of," says Steve Taub, editor of the Individual Investor Online who ran Financial World's annual ranking of Wall Street's highest-paid money managers for 12 years. In 1998, for instance, DiMenna was near the top, earning more than $50 million, according to Taub.