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Getting Professional Help Individual investors usually don't engage in currency hedging on their own, "but some financial advisers do," says Gregg Wolper, senior mutual-fund analyst at Morningstar.

Making Sense of Currency Effects Annelena Lobb 2010

The two funds generally avoided big banks, such as Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. Among financials, "most of the worst performers are the big banks, either in the U.S. or Europe, that have gotten crushed," says Gregg Wolper , senior fund analyst at Morningstar.

Defying the Trend Daisy Maxey 2011

Wolper and his company, in his over 50 years in show business, have made in excess of 300 films which have won more than 150 awards including Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, Peabody's and recognition through retrospectives at the world's great film festivals.

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010

In 1960, Wolper signed an exclusive television contract with America's 50 Astronauts for a series of specials on the space program.

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010

As the end of the twentieth century Wolper returned to documentaries when he produced three, 10-hour documentary series summing up the 20th Century.

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010

Wolper became Chairman, Executive Producer and creator of Liberty Weekend, the four-day celebration, in New York, to commemorate the 100th anniversary and the completion of the restoration of the Statue of Liberty.

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010

Wolper crisscrossed the country selling old films to the only 50 television stations on the air The films included old movie serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, various old shorts and the first feature film on television, "The Adventures of Martin Eden".

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010

Wolper was able to line up 108 individual stations to carry the film the same week.

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010

In 1949, upon leaving USC, Wolper, with his high school buddy Jim Harris and others, set up their own television distribution company, Flamingo Films.

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010

For the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, the weekend of July 4th, 1986, Lee Iacocca, head of the committee, asked Wolper to create and oversee a celebratory event.

Dale Olsen: Remembering David L. Wolper Dale Olsen 2010