Rank #1335
Henry Laufer
Net worth $3.2B
Hedge funds · United States
- Born
- Aug 13, 1945
- Age
- 80
- Source
- Hedge funds
- Residence
- Lake Worth, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, City College of New York; Doctorate, Princeton University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Laufer joined legendary quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, founded by Jim Simons, in 1992.
- He was its chief scientist and vice president of research until retiring in 2009.
- Laufer still has a stake in Renaissance, which now manages about $55 billion.
- Prior to Renaissance, Laufer was a math professor at Stony Brook University for two decades.
- Laufer and Simons worked together at Stony Brook where Simons was chairman of the Department of Mathematics.
- Laufer and his wife Marsha gave nearly $1 million to Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.