Man jumps from the 10th floor after losing $20 billion fortune

Over slight money problems (his assets firm was liquidated when it shrank from $20B to $863M)


A Manhattan financer jumped to his death from a skyscraper yards from Trump Tower just weeks after his assets firm that was once worth $20 billion was liquidated.

Charles de Vaulx, 59, was the chairman and chief investment officer of International Value Advisers when he allegedly took his own life on Monday at the company's offices at at 717 Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan.

The company confirmed the married father-of-two's death on its website and but the cause of his death was revealed by the research firm Morningstar. That publication reported the award-winning portfolio manager had apparently taken his own life.

The NYPD had said that a man had died in an apparent suicide but declined to identify him.
Charles de Vaulx (center), founder of International Value Advisers, is seen in a July 27, 2018 photo visiting the offices of Commonwealth Capital Management in Kentucky



A source close to de Vaulx told the New York Post that the tale of de Vaulx is 'a Shakespearean tragedy.'

'This is a Shakespearean tragedy on a lot of levels … ironically many of the stocks he owned have appreciated significantly in the past few months,' the source said.

The source described the late financier as a 'complex man with a lot of hubris.'

'[He] felt he failed in his mission of value investing and lost his raison d'etre,' the source added.

De Vaulx's longtime business partner, Chuck de Lardemelle, left the company abruptly in July causing alarm for investors in the company which had been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic when investors withdrew their money.
 

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Bantu Liberation Movement
VIP
So the partner left and took most of the investors with him? It sounds like something that would happen in the TV show Billions.
 

Mercury

Ha igu daalinee dantaada raac
VIP
theres people who lost their house,car living on the streets yet they dont kill themselves this guy lost alot of money but still had alot left and decide to kill himself so dumb
 
What a sad state of affairs. As Muslims we know that the Lord Almighty gives and takes but always with a purpose and a plan. That is why we should never give up.
 

mr steal your naag

banu hashim and shiettt
VIP
Has it been confirmed yet whether an ethnic woman pushed him?

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richness is what is left after your liabilities , not your asset worth, when your net worth becomes lower than
your liabilities in fact you are no longer rich but in deep shit and usually this is the story for his like.
never just go for the sensationalist headlines
 
richness is what is left after your liabilities , not your asset worth, when your net worth becomes lower than
your liabilities in fact you are no longer rich but in deep shit and usually this is the story for his like.
never just go for the sensationalist headlines
So how fucked was this guy financially?
 

Happy_

Laa ta aamin nin wa law kaana ninkaaga- bom!
He lost some money, so he sent himself to akhirah? Subhan’allah, so sad, inna lillah wa inna ilayhi rajuun.
 

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