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By the 1990s, Stanford's endowment had grown to be one of the largest in the world, thanks in large part to the success of its investments in Silicon Valley companies. In response to the growing complexity of investment markets and the need for specialized asset management, the university founded the Stanford Management Company in 1991. [3]
In 2000, he became president and CEO of the Stanford Management Company. [3] The Wall Street Journal reported in 2006 that under his tenure, Stanford's endowment grew from $8.5 billion in 2000 to $15 billion. [4] In 2005, he founded Makena Capital Management alongside former colleagues from Stanford. [5]
[9] [10] In addition, according to a Stanford alumni survey conducted in 2011, some 39,900 companies founded by Stanford alumni were active, and companies founded by Stanford alumni altogether generated more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and had created 5.4 million jobs, roughly equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world (2011).
Allen Stanford traced his company to the insurance company founded in 1932 in Mexia, Texas, by his grandfather, Lodis B. Stanford. [6] [7] However, there was no direct connection between the insurance company and Allen Stanford's banking business, which he started on the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat in the West Indies in the 1980s. [8]
Bass has served as chairman of Stanford University's board of trustees, [5] Stanford Management Company, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Cook Children’s Medical Center. He is a trustee of Stanford University, [ 5 ] a director of Stanford Management Company, a trustee of the Brookings Institution , [ 13 ] a trustee of ...
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James M. Davis (born 1948) is the former chief financial officer of Stanford Financial Group.On 27 August 2009 he pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and obstruction of Justice in relation to a $7 billion investment fraud Ponzi scheme allegedly run by the company. [1]
Boaz Ronald Weinstein (born 1973) is an American hedge fund manager and founder of Saba Capital Management.He rose to prominence at Deutsche Bank in the early and mid 2000s with his credit default swap and capital structure arbitrage trading strategies.