Notably well-educated for her time, she proved a capable manager and a shrewd investor.

He was successful as a farmer and a shrewd investor in land, much increasing his family wealth.

He was known to be a shrewd investor, something not common among the szlachta, who tended to look down upon merchants and people dealing with non-agricultural trade.

Meanwhile, other shrewd investors are looking steal market share in new underwriting business.

Shrewd investors will realise that if you are putting money away for the long term, then short-term market fluctuations are less of a problem.

That, and, in choosing the role of victim rather than perpetrator, a shrewd judge of character might detect a self-destructive, self-pitying streak.

She was a shrewd judge of character; so was her acquisitive self-interest.

He had a very good ear and was a shrewd judge of what music had 'added value'.

He was a shrewd judge of people, adept at spotting time-wasters and charlatans, and with the personal integrity and magnetism to make people want to work for him.

Bull, a shrewd observer, says industry-specific taxes already apply in other unpopular sectors, such as oil and banking.

He was a shrewd observer too.

Moving about the city with his dosser - a kind of backpack or wicker basket - the chiffonnier was also a proletarian flâneur, a disengaged but shrewd observer.

Even in private practice, he remained an active and shrewd observer of the political scene.

During the passage he was a shrewd observer of nature and knowledge seeker.

You'll be a shrewd operator with home plans.

He was also a very shrewd operator and had the money to pay for good lawyers.

I have to say, he's a shrewd operator.

Such a shrewd operator cannot have been surprised to see the incendiary phrase 'specialist in failure' seized upon last week.

By most accounts, he was a shrewd operator who ruled by fear and manipulation.

But his attack showed him also to be a shrewd tactician.

A good fly half should be many things: a capable kicker, decent passer, tough tackler, shrewd tactician and unflappable character.

There, he proved a quietly inspirational figure as well as a shrewd tactician, becoming club captain.