Wealth and donations[edit]
In February 2017, Forbes Magazine listed his personal fortune at US$1.55 billion. In 2015, he was listed as the 15th highest earning hedge fund manager in the world.[1]
Klarman started The Klarman Family Foundation ($255 million in assets as of 2010) which donates to medical causes, Jewish organizations (such as the American Jewish Committee, Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies and Gann Academy), and Israeli causes. Klarman is the chairman of Facing History and Ourselves which develops classroom programs to combat anti-Semitism and bigotry.[24] Klarman also is active with the Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy group that collects and provides information on Israel for journalists. He donated $4 million to the organization between 2008 and 2010.[24] He is the key U.S. investor behind The Times of Israel, an online English-language newspaper which reports on Israel, the region and the Jewish world.[34][35]
In 2013, Klarman donated the lead capital to fund the $61 million building at Cornell University named the Seth ’79 and Beth Klarman Humanities Building, more simply known as Klarman Hall.[36] A year later, he donated money to Harvard Business School to construct a "conference center/auditorium and performance space," named Klarman Hall. In an official statement he recalled his time at the school as "an important and ongoing role in my life," later noting it an honor "to able to give back to a school that has given us so much."[37]
Awards[edit]
Klarman has been called a "hedge fund Titan,"[7] and "quiet giant of investing,"[38] for his slow accumulation of fund capital over his career (in 2008, his hedge fund was the 6th largest in the world) and low profile.[7] It was reported by Andrew Ross Sorkin, of The New York Times, that "[Klarman] is the most successful and influential investor you have probably never heard of."[38] His Investopedia entry has him listed as "an enigma in the investing world."[39]
He is sometimes called "the Warren Buffett of his generation,"[3] and the "Oracle of Boston."[5] It has even been speculated that his investment philosophy is so similar to Buffett's that he is considered a dark horse option to assume Berkshire Hathaway in the event of Buffett's death.[40][41] According to an article by The New York Times,Buffett has publicly praised Klarman's investing,[38] and it has been reported that Buffett keeps a copy of his book on his bookshelf.[13]
In 2008, he was inducted into Institutional Investors Alpha's Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame along with David Swensen, Louis Bacon, Steven Cohen, Kenneth Griffin, Paul Tudor Jones, George Soros, Michael Steinhardt, Jack Nash, James Simons, Alfred Jones, Leon Levy, Julian Robertson, and Bruce Kovner.[4]
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