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Yahoo Finance

author

Joseph Pisani

summary

Benjamin de Rothschild, who oversaw the banking empire started by his father in 1953, has died. The Edmond de Rothschild Group, the company he was chairman of, said that de Rothschild died of a heart attack Friday afternoon at his home in Pregny, Switzerland. Since 1997, Benjamin de Rothschild headed the banking group, which was named after his father.