$10,000 investment grows into billion-dollar business - Conservatism pays off for Humphries-Lewin

Rita Humphries-Lewin, chair of the Barita Group, plans to take her company public.

After 32 years in her own business and some 47 years as a stockbroker, retirement is not a primary preoccupation of equities and investment management guru, Rita Humphries-Lewin.

Instead, she is busy writing the prospectus to take public the $1-billion company she started in 1977 with $10,000 from her own savings.

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