Rank #2639
Seth Klarman
Net worth $1.5B
Investments · United States
- Born
- May 01, 1957
- Age
- 69
- Source
- Investments
- Residence
- Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Cornell University; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Seth Klarman runs Boston-based hedge fund Baupost, which has $27.4 billion under management as of March 2023.
- Klarman's book "Margin of Safety," a cult classic among value investors, sells for about $1,700 on Amazon.
- Once a major donor to the Republican Party, Klarman publicly denounced Trump in 2016, and has been contributing to the Democratic Party.
- In 2017, Klarman's horse, Cloud Computing, won the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, the racetrack he grew up next to in Baltimore.
- Klarman, whose philanthropic efforts focus on scientific research and promoting access to music learning, is also a major supporter of causes in Israel.