In his terrifying heyday, the veteran corporate raider Carl Icahn went by the moniker “King Kong” on Wall Street. He was also known as “The Lone Wolf” and “The Great White Shark”.

That's nearly $9,000,000 in 2005 dollars. Source: New York Times Icahn gained a reputation for being a "corporate raider." He'd take a controlling stake in a firm and force extreme changes in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Activist investor Carl Icahn has suffered a new blow to his ailing financial empire as its largest ...