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Bruce Stanley Kovner is the Chairman and founder of the world's top and largest hedge fund company which trade global macro strategies, the Caxton Associates. This notoriously private and secretive billionaire rarely gives in to interviews which made him less popular among the people outside the professional circles.
While working at Commodities Corporation, which is now part of the Goldman Sachs, under Michael Marcus, he was able to make millions which earned him a reputation as a sober trader. Eventually, he was able to establish his own company, the Caxton Associates in 1983. Nowadays, he is a collector of classical music manuscripts and rare books.
Bruce Kovner has an estimated net worth of $5.3 billion.
Earnings & Financial Data
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
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2019 |
Asset |
Estimated value of Bruce Kovner's 23,620 equities in Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc. (KALA) Biotechnology & Medical Research |
$115,500 |
2017 |
Sale of Asset |
Selling price of Bruce Kovner's 7.5-acre Caribbean Estate known as ‘Girasol’ located at Marigot Beach on the north side of the island of St. Barthélemy |
$67,000,000 |
2014 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Donation to the Foundation for Education Reform and the Foundation for Excellence in Education |
$650,000 |
2014 |
Salary |
Estimated annual salary as the Hedge fund manager and founder of Caxton Associates |
$800,000,000 |
2013 |
Salary |
Estimated annual salary as the Hedge fund manager and founder of Caxton Associates |
$550,000,000 |
2013 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Donation for a new scholarship program that is meant partly to address the problem of student loans for a few dozen music students at the Julliard School |
$60,000,000 |
2013 |
Asset |
Estimated value of Bruce Kovner's mansion at 1130 Fifth Avenue in New York |
$80,000,000 |
2013 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Donation to The Juilliard School that will endow the school’s new four-year masters-level graduate program in drama |
$10,000,000 |
2012 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Donation to The Juilliard School to endow its graduate-level program in historical performance |
$20,000,000 |
2008 |
Salary |
Estimated annual salary as the Hedge fund manager and founder of Caxton Associates |
$640,000,000 |
2007 |
Asset |
Purchase value of Bruce Kovner's cluster of beachfront properties in Santa Barbara, California |
$70,000,000 |
2007 |
Salary |
Annual salary as the Hedge fund manager and founder of Caxton Associates |
$715,000,000 |
2003 |
Asset |
Purchase value of Bruce Kovner's mansion at 1130 Fifth Avenue in New York |
$27,000,000 |
1976 |
Asset |
Estimated value of Bruce Kovner's first trade |
$22,000 |