General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> May 16, 2005
LASZLO BIRINYI JR. is the Founder and President of Birinyi Associates,
Inc., a research and money-management firm. Prior to founding Birinyi
Associates, he was a Director of Salmon Brothers Asset Management for 20
years, where he spearheaded the firm's Equity Market Analysis Group and
developed a variety of studies on market topics including studies on
volatility, flow of funds, market structure and his most prominent known
tool ' Money Flows. He began his career as a trader on Wall Street
before becoming Vice President and subsequently a Director. In
addition, he was also the architect of the Salomon-Russell International
Index, and served as the Global Trading Strategist for Deutsche Bank
Securities for five years. Mr. Birinyi is a columnist for Forbes
magazine, and has been a panelist for Louis Rukeyser's Wall $treet Week
for over 12 years. In 1999, he was inducted into their Hall of Fame for
his outstanding stock selections. Mr. Birinyi received his
undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina and an MBA
from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Profile
investment philosophy?
Mr. Birinyi: We are a little different from most managers. We have two
elements to our business, the
