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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 ...
The company was founded in 1959. [1] In 1987, British and Commonwealth Holdings acquired Mercantile House and gained control of OppenheimerFunds. [3] OppenheimerFunds was acquired by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1990 [4] for $150 million.
J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
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.
Whitney joined Oppenheimer Holdings in 1993 as a director, and in 1995 she joined the company's Specialty Finance Group. In 1998, she left Oppenheimer to become an executive director at Wachovia. Whitney returned to Oppenheimer in 2004, where she researched banks and brokers as a managing director.
He became Oppenheimer's Chairman and CEO in 1983. [5] In 1986, Robert and Nathan Gantcher, Oppenheimer's president, led a management group that purchased an 82% interest in the company from its parent Mercantile House Holdings. [2] [13] The buyout returned Oppenheimer to private ownership, and Robert became the company's principal owner.
The company was founded by Herbert Coutinho and German immigrant Hans Oppenheimer, each taking half a stake in the business. [3] Coutinho's stake was acquired by the US construction group McDermott International, then J McDermott, in 1984. In 1987, the Oppenheimer family gained full control of the business after buying out its American co-owner ...
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