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Article: Mansueto magazine bids: hobby or midlife crisis? With Spitzer circling, Morningstar chief picks odd time to branch out.(Joe Mansueto)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
- Article date:
- June 27, 2005
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Byline: KATE RYAN
For 20 years, Joe Mansueto nurtured his creation, Morningstar Inc., with the single-minded zeal of the quintessential entrepreneur.
Few readers of the financial press are unfamiliar with the story of how Mr. Mansueto founded the mutual fund rating service in his one-bedroom Lincoln Park apartment and steadily built it into a global leader in financial research.
Today, the man who followed the ascetic principles of Thoreau is worth well above $840 million, the value of his 78% stake in newly public Morningstar.
But now, at 48, his attention seems to be wandering. He recently revealed an interest in magazine publishing, bidding unsuccessfully ...
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