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Leon Cooperman

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Leon Cooperman · Economics & Business

What

Founder of Omega Advisors and former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management; noted value investor and Giving Pledge signatory.

When

1943, United States

Where

United States

Founded
Omega Advisors1991
Biography

Leon Cooperman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founder of Omega Advisors and former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management; noted value investor and Giving Pledge signatory.

How & why

Leon Cooperman is an American investor born in 1943 to a Jewish immigrant family in the Bronx, New York. He spent decades at Goldman Sachs, where he became head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, before founding the hedge fund Omega Advisors in 1991. A noted value investor and Giving Pledge signatory, he has committed the majority of his wealth to philanthropy.

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Founder of Omega Advisors and former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management; noted value investor and Giving Pledge signatory.

1943

Source: Wikipedia (Leon Cooperman)