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    George Soros HonFBA (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. [7] [8] As of October 2023 [update] , he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, [9] [10] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations , [11] of which $15 billion has already been ...

    • Who Is George Soros?
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    Investor and philanthropist George Soros survived Nazi occupation followed by Communist-rule in Hungary in the mid-1940s and emigrated to London. There he studied economics and after earning his degree, moved to New York City in 1956, where he entered a life of finance. He began his renowned philanthropic efforts in 1979, and as of 2012, his lifeti...

    Soros was born György Schwartz in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 1930, to parents Tividar and Erzebat Schwartz. To avoid growing anti-Semite persecution, his father changed their surname to Soros in 1936. As a teenager, he survived the Nazi invasion and occupation of Hungary in 1944. After WWII ended, Soros emigrated from then-Communist-dominated...

    Soros graduated in 1952, and in September 1956, he sailed to New York and took a job at Wall Street brokerage firm F.M. Mayer. After working for a few more firms, in 1973, Soros set up his own hedge fund (the Soros Fund, soon after renamed the Quantum Fund and later the Quantum Fund Endowment) with $12 million from investors. The fund, with Soros a...

    Soros began his philanthropic activity in 1979, and he established the Open Society Foundations in 1984. The foundations fund a range of global initiatives “to advance justice, education, public health, business development and independent media.” The causes Soros helps with his foundations are numerous (the foundations’ list of activities goes on ...

    Soros has five children and has been divorced twice. He married his third wife, Tamiko Bolton, in 2013.

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  3. George Soros (/ ˈ s ɔːr oʊ s / or / ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; Hungarian: Soros György; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management.

  4. Jan 4, 2024 · George Soros is a legendary hedge fund manager who is widely considered one of the most successful investors of all time. Soros managed the Quantum Fund, a fund that achieved an average annual...

  5. George Soros experienced ethnic and political intolerance firsthand. Born in Hungary in 1930, he lived through the Nazi occupation of 1944–1945, which resulted in the murder of over 500,000 Hungarian Jews. His own Jewish family survived by securing false identity papers, concealing their backgrounds, and helping others do the same.

  6. May 30, 2018 · 30 May 2018. EPA. The billionaire financier has become a divisive figure in global politics in recent years. Hungarian-American businessman George Soros is one of the world's most renowned, and...

  7. George Soros is one of the world’s foremost philanthropists. He has given away more than $32 billion of his personal fortune to fund the Open Society Foundations’ work around the world. He is also the founder and primary funder of the Central European University in Budapest, a leading regional center for the study of the social sciences.

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