“Ah… very true.”  She gives me an appreciative look at my body and left.  She disappeared almost as quickly as she appeared.

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OK, google ‘Shane McCutcheon’. 12,947 hits… she is popular.  Let’s see this article about her on Financial Times.

Generous hedge fund boss tops philanthropist league

A young city high-flier has emerged as US’s most generous philanthropist, giving away more than $80m to children’s charities in the developing world last year.

Shane McCutcheon, 29, daughter of US tycoon Gabriel McCutcheon, set up The Green Earth Investment Fund (GEI) three years ago.

Accounts just filed show that in the year up to August 31, 2006, GEI gave $80m to charity, which while some way short of the extraordinary benevolence of Wall Street billionaire Warren Buffett, who plans to give away his $44bn fortune, does make her US’s most munificent woman.

‘Greed is Good’ may still be the predominant slogan echoing through Wall Street and the square mile, but ‘Giving is Good’ is also beginning to be heard.

Uniquely, GEI was specifically set up to funnel a fixed proportion (1 per cent) of assets to its charity.

Miss McCutcheon, from LA, was a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School, putting him in the top 5 per cent of her MBA class. She cut her trading teeth on Wall Street, and when she went it alone in 2003, she set up the charity link in order to motivate her own performance, according to sources.

The charity’s main focus is helping children who have been orphaned by AIDS – or are at risk of being – in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Ethiopia and India. In Africa, it is also helping with agriculture, training mentors and supporting educational initiatives.

Estimated to be worth around $800m herself, Miss McCutcheon is not alone in the hedge fund world in donating huge sums to charity, but usually it is done on a more ad hoc basis.

But GEI and Miss McCutcheon were very reticent to speak about their good works yesterday.

‘We just not really interested in putting more information out there,’ said a spokeswoman.

‘People write about us and that’s fine, but Miss McCutcheon doesn’t wish to give any interviews about this.’