Vietnam is launching its biggest economic overhaul in a generation, aiming to become Asia’s next “tiger economy.” ...

It has been a spectacular comeback by Tiger Asia's Bill Hwang. Having dropped nearly 30 percent earlier this year, he is now up 8.6 percent for the year with an 8.8 percent gain in September.

A tiger crosses a road in India's Ranthambore National Park. Aditya Singh/AFP via Getty ImagesMore than 100,000 tigers ranged across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent to the Russian ...

Tigers have lost 93 percent of their historical range, which once sprawled across Asia from Turkey to Russia and south to Bali, according to the group.

Through 2007, Tiger Asia racked up a compounded annualized return of about 40 percent. At the end of 2007 Hwang had about $8 billion under management.

Caspian tigers, some of the largest cats that ever lived — up to 10 feet long and weighing more than 300 pounds — met a grim end in the middle of the 20th century. Until the mid-1960s when they were ...