He is also on the cover of Trader Monthly, posing in front of his Cessna Citation jet with his arm around Zeus Mountain’s Chief Investment Officer, Skippy. Alex is building casinos on the Vegas Strip with cheap loans financed by the perpetual Yen carry trade. He is also working closely with firms like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche bank on the construction of new innovative mortgage bonds to help meet the new century’s demand for “home ownership for everyone no matter what.”Ģ004-2007: The Zeus Mountain empire grows to include real estate development. His firm is called Zeus Mountain LP, he is 38 years old and is featured in a 40-Under-40 spread in Fortune Magazine ( The New Young Guns Changing the Financial Paradigm, October 2003) He is making non-traditional loans for new housing development on both coasts as the Fed leaves rates at 1% for an “extended period”. He will spend this time writing his first book ( Keaton on the Money, Simon & Schuster) and doing some “consulting work”.Ģ003: With public markets back action, Alex reemerges as a hedge fund manager with an emphasis on credit opportunities and real estate.
He manages to avoid the coming $1 billion Global Settlement between Elliot Spitzer and Wall Street by bowing out early. It’s a win-win for both the bankers and the companies…not so much for the retail investors who buy in the secondary.Ģ000-2002: Alex is fined by the SEC and accepts a two-year suspension after settling charges of manipulation. The deal flow is fast and furious and Alex is in a position to both bring web companies public and then ‘rate” them on the sell side.
He takes a myriad of deals public including Boston Chicken, Snapple Iced Tea and Callaway Golf to name a few.ġ998: Alex is now operating out of Silicon Valley as a research analyst/investment banker for Thomas Weisel. Alex is in his mid-20’s and still rocking the suspenders/white collar-on-blue shirt look.ġ993-1996: An explosion of more than 500 Initial Public Offerings finds Alex riding high as an underwriter at Merrill Lynch. His team takes advantage of the Savings and Loan crisis in which 787 deposit institutions failed costing almost $100 billion to mop up by snagging real estate all over the country at pennies on the dollar. Let’s take a look at Alex’s career in finance over the ensuing two decades…ġ990 – 1993: Alex makes his bones as a junior investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co in New York. He was 23 years old and had spent the entire Reagan decade preparing for his yuppie ascendance. Fox) was en route to his dream job at a major Wall Street investment firm after graduating college. In the final episode of Family Ties, which aired in the spring of 1989, Alex P.
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