Question: What's the origin of the name?
No one is asking the important questions, like where the name came from.

Answer: no

Question: Sometimes they even improve on what he was.
They wanted to make him better over time.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: I assume that he formed his convictions as a student, when he had no investments and didn't even know what they were.
When he was a student he had no investments and had no idea what investments were.

Answer:
yes