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Hedge-Fund Billionaire Julian Robertson Shrugs as World Churns

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Julian Robertson stayed calm after Greeks lined up at ATMs to hoard cash, the longest bull market in China’s history tumbled to an end and Puerto Rico’s governor said the U.S. commonwealth couldn’t pay its debt. The billionaire even had reasons to smile.

Robertson, the 83-year-old Tiger Management founder, got to his office at the top of New York’s 101 Park Ave., a skyscraper marketed as the “height of perfection,” at about 7 a.m. Monday. He ran the world’s largest hedge fund before returning investors’ money and now manages his own.