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OppenheimerFunds, Inc. was a global asset manager. As of February 28, 2019, the company managed over $260 billion in assets in over 13,000,000 investor accounts. [ 1 ] In May 2019, the company was acquired by Invesco . [ 2 ]
Leon Levy (September 13, 1925 – April 6, 2003) [1] was an American investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist. At his death, Forbes magazine called him “a Wall Street investment genius,” [2] who helped create both mutual funds and hedge funds.
Originally created as Oppenheimer & Company and named for German-American investment broker Max E. Oppenheimer (c. 1899–1964), a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who advised the Synagogue Council of America and worked at a New Hampshire real estate firm, a Bay Area savings and loan association, and Lehman Brothers, [3] Oppenheimer Holdings was founded in 1950 when a partnership was created to ...
After retiring from Oppenheimer, Fossel became chairman of the board for Unum and NorthWestern Energy. [6] Fossel's approach to investment, particularly in mutual funds, was characterized by a willingness to take contrarian positions. He believed in the strategy of going against the market trends, which he saw as a path to better returns.
Salomon Oppenheim founded the banking firm Sal. Oppenheim in the late 18th century. Until its sale in 2009, Sal. Oppenheim was the largest privately owned investment/banking house in Europe, with assets of €348 billion.
He was elected chairman in 1979. In 1982, he and business partner Leon Levy sold the company for $163 million, investing $50 million to start the hedge fund, Odyssey Partners. Nash was also a founder of The New York Sun [3] and served as vice chairman of the board of the American Stock Exchange in the late 1970s. [citation needed]
Hammond served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Portfolio Manager of SteelPath before he sold the SteelPath mutual funds family to Oppenheimer Funds in 2012, with assets under management of $3.3 billion at the time of sale. [4] In December 2012 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. acquired SteelPath, which had $3.3 billion in assets under ...
She resigned from Oppenheimer on February 19, 2009, to establish her own firm, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group (MWAG), where she produced company-specific equity research on financial institutions and analyzed the sector's operating environment. [5] In 2013, Whitney de-registered MWAG [6] [7] and started her own hedge fund, Kenbelle Capital LP. [8]