Jonathan Bell Lovelace

Lovelace spent most of the 1920s at a Detroit banking/brokerage firm, developing his investment research techniques and earning impressive results. In 1924, he became a partner in E.E. MacCrone. By 1929, before the stock market crash, he could see no logical relationship between stock market prices and their underlying values, so he sold his interest in the firm, took his investments out of the market and moved to California.^{[citation needed]}

Lovelace founded Capital Research and Management Company in 1931 which was at first a small firm named Lovelace, Dennis and Renfrew.

His son, Jon B. Lovelace Jr.,^[1] a Hotchkiss School 1944 graduate,^[2] served as an executive at Capital Group Companies. In 2007, his son and family were ranked #840 on the Forbes Billionaires List worth $1.1 billion.^[3] As of 2019, grandson Rob Lovelace serves as an investment manager for a Capital Group fund.^[4]

He died in 1979.