Rank #2566
Michael Steinhardt
Net worth $1.6B
Hedge funds · United States
- Born
- Dec 07, 1940
- Age
- 85
- Source
- Hedge funds
- Residence
- Mount Kisco, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania
Net worth over time
Biography
- A pioneer of the modern hedge fund, Michael Steinhardt closed his fund in 1995 after making a fortune in the 1990s from stellar returns.
- He came out of retirement a decade later to help run WisdomTree Investments, where he is still a leading shareholder.
- He retired as chairman of the board in October 2019.
- WisdomTree is a publicly traded asset manager that focuses on ETF investing.
- Steinhardt cofounded Birthright Israel, a foundation that provides funding for young Jewish Americans to take heritage trips to Israel.
- He maintains a zoo at his 57-acre Bedford, N.Y. estate -- complete with 90-year-old land tortoises, rare zonkies, camels and "oodles and oodles of berries."
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