Alan “Ace” Greenberg, who rose from a Bear Stearns clerk in 1949 to become the firm’s CEO in 1978, died Friday at 86. The cause was complications from cancer. When he joined the investment ...

Alan "Ace" Greenberg, the executive who helped turn Bear Stearns Cos. into one of the world's biggest—and riskiest—securities firms, died of complications from cancer in New York on Friday at ...

Just days before his death at age 86, Alan “Ace” Greenberg was still coming into his office at JPMorgan Chase to manage money. Greenberg, who helped turn Bear Stearns into a Wall Street ...

Alan Greenberg smiles in his office at Bear Stearns in this 1998 photo. He had just announced he would donate $1 million of his own money to buy Viagra for poor, older men.

Alan "Ace" Greenberg, who presided over the expansion of Bear Stearns before its collapse helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis, has died at 86, according to several media reports. As CEO ...

NEW YORK — Alan C. ‘‘Ace’’ Greenberg, who as chief executive officer of Bear Stearns Cos. transformed a small bond shop into the fifth-largest U.S securities firm before it collapsed in ...

Bear Stearns’ legendary boss Ace Greenberg handed the baton to CEO Jimmy Cayne yesterday, ushering in a new generation of top management at the Wall Street brokerage. As part of the changing … ...

In 2013, Alan “Ace” Greenberg was dying. The former ­chairman of Bear Stearns Cos. had been diagnosed with cancer, and “I had a limited amount of time to find out how my dad thought and ...

Alan C. “Ace” Greenberg, who as chief executive officer of Bear Stearns transformed a small bond shop into the fifth-largest U.S. securities firm before it collapsed in 2008 in one of the key ...

An amateur magician and bridge player, Greenberg took over New York-based Bear Stearns in 1978, when it was a private partnership with about 1,000 employees and $46 million in capital.

Greenberg began his career at Bear Stearns in 1949 and rose through the ranks over many decades, taking over as chief executive in 1978 and running the New York firm until 1993, when he handed the ...

Alan “Ace” Greenberg, who rose from a Bear Stearns clerk in 1949 to become the firm’s CEO in 1978, died Friday at 86. The cause was complications from cancer. When he joined the investment ...