Hollywood's Business Managers

Nachshon has a taste for putting a large share of client money into real estate investments. In the past decade since joining with L.A. business-management pioneer Bernie Francis, she has given actors, writers and directors part ownership in homes, shopping centers and mobile-home parks. Her firm dodged the subprime and foreclosure troubles, mostly with good bets like investments in booming towns in Texas. "I try to explain as much as I can to clients that when they see a multimillion-dollar paycheck, after commissions and taxes, they'll only be keeping 33 percent of it," she says. "Investment becomes necessary."