Skidmore is listed as president and chief investment officer for Belpointe Asset Management. In an April 2010 story posted on Seeking Alpha, a website that offers stock-market commentary, Skidmore gave an interview about the "highest conviction stock position" in his fund. He said Tri-Tech Holding Inc., a company that designs municipal sewage-treatment and odor-control systems in China, was his "great long opportunity." Its shares, then trading at about $15, fell below $10 the following month, and closed yesterday at $4.03.

Skidmore, who graduated from Connecticut College in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in economics and history, previously hosted an AM radio show called Greenwich Entrepreneurs, according to a biography on Belpointe's website.

The biography states that he is a former member of the U.S. Sailing team and hoped to compete in the Olympics. Skidmore is listed in the record as a Finn-class sailor on the 2003 team, Jake Fish, a spokesman for U.S. Sailing, wrote in an e-mail.

Davidson, a senior portfolio manager, started in finance in 1979 with a French bank as a foreign-exchange trader, his biography on Belpointe's website says. At Belpointe, he manages a proprietary equity and asset-allocation strategy.

The three wealth managers waited several weeks to claim the prize. The winning numbers were drawn on Nov. 2 and Skidmore, Davidson and Lacoff didn't come forward until yesterday. A delay isn't unusual as lottery winners seek legal and financial advice, Noble said. The men said they plan to use a portion of the jackpot to support "philanthropic" causes in Connecticut, she said.

Connecticut, the wealthiest U.S. state, collected $612.7 million in income taxes from Greenwich residents in 2009, or about 13 percent of the total and the most from any community, Revenue Department figures show.

 

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