Portrait of Igor Tulchinsky

Rank #2408

Igor Tulchinsky

Net worth $1.7B

Hedge funds · United States

Born
Aug 01, 1966
Age
59
Source
Hedge funds
Residence
Greenwich, Connecticut
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education
Master of Arts, The University of Texas at Austin; Master of Business Administration, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Igor Tulchinsky is founder and CEO of WorldQuant, a quantitative investment firm with $17 billion in assets under management.
  • WorldQuant specializes in stastical arbitrage and other quantitative-driven trading techniques.
  • Born in Belarus, Tulchinsky immigrated to the U.S. as a child and began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
  • He spent two years at Interactive Brokers before moving to Millennium, the hedge fund run by billionaire investor Izzy Englander.
  • He founded WorldQuant in 2007 as a subadvisor of Millennium, and it still manages $7 billion on behalf of the larger hedge fund.
  • His nonprofit WorldQuant University provides free online masters-level courses in financial engineering.
  • He has written three books about investing and financial markets.