From The Daily News Here’s a list of Palm Beachers — full-time and seasonal — on the 2016 Forbes 400: * Industrialist David Koch, 76, with $42 billion (up from $41 billion in 2015), tied for seventh place * Investor Carl Icahn, 80, with $15.7 billion (down from $20.5 billion), in 26th place * Discount broker Thomas Peterffy, 71, with $12.6 billion (down from $13.5...Read More
BY Michelle Egan Founders Daily Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (SBCF) : Otter Creek Advisors scooped up 142,122 additional shares in Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida during the most recent quarter end , the firm said in a disclosure report filed with the SEC on Aug 15, 2016. The investment management firm now holds a total of 642,139 shares of Seacoast Banking Corporation of...Read More
from Palm Beach Post Land in Palm Beach may indeed be the ultimate luxury, if the oceanfront house approved by the town last week for billionaire owner Ken Griffin is any indication. On Billionaires Row, the low-profile, one-story residence will stretch 105 feet longer than a football field. But it and several outbuildings will occupy less than 8 percent of the 11½-acre site on...Read More
By Nathan Reiff–investopedia Palm Beach, Florida is likely to evoke images of beautiful ocean views and warm, sandy beaches. But the south Florida town of about 10,000 year-round citizens also contains a startlingly large percentage of the nation’s billionaires. According to a Forbes list of the wealthiest individuals in the United States released earlier in 2016, Palm Beach is home to more than 25 billionaires....Read More
From Politico By Shane Goldmacher Donald Trump added nine new people, including eight women, to his economic council on Thursday — and more than half the additions have either already given Trump money or have pledged to help raise campaign cash for him and the Republican Party. One new addition, hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, contributed $100,000 to Trump’s joint fundraising committee with the GOP,...Read More
