Rank #508
George Soros
Net worth $7.5B
Hedge funds · United States
- Born
- Aug 12, 1930
- Age
- 95
- Source
- Hedge funds
- Residence
- Katonah, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, London School of Economics
Net worth over time
Biography
- George Soros is a hedge fund tycoon who managed client money in New York from 1969 to 2011.
- In 1992, Soros shorted the British pound and reportedly made a profit of $1 billion. He became known as the man who broke the Bank of England.
- Soros shifted $18 billion from his family office to his Open Society Foundations as of 2018.
- Soros was born in Hungary; at 17 he left the country and put himself through the London School of Economics working as a railway porter and waiter.
- Long one of the Democratic Party's biggest donors, he has given more than $200 million to candidates and PACs over the past decade.
- Soros' father was a lawyer. During the Nazi occupation he bought his family forged papers and bribed an official who then claimed Soros was his Christian godson.