Bill Browder Quotes
Bodyguards offer fake security. The real security comes from having your enemies know nothing about you.
Browder, Bill. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. Simon & Schuster, 2015.
In 1971 New York Times published the Pentagon Papers which had been obtained from Daniel Ellsberg much to the distress of the administration. Two Nixon aides requested permission to break into the offices of Ellsberg's psychiatrist to obtain confidential medical records.
William Felix Browder is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. The Hermitage Fund was founded in partnership with Republic National Bank, with $25 million in seed capital. The fund, and associated accounts, eventually grew to $4.5 billion of assets under management. In 1997, the Hermitage Fund was the best-performing fund in the world, up 238%. The primary investment strategy of Browder was shareholder rights activism. Browder took on large Russian companies such as Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz, Unified Energy Systems, and Sidanco. In retaliation, on November 13, 2005, Browder was refused entry to Russia, deported to the UK, and declared a threat to Russian national security.
