In 1967, he founded a hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners, which averaged an annualized return for its clients of 24.5% from 1967 to 1978.
In 1995, he closed his fund stating, “I thought there must be something more virtuous, more ennobling to do with one’s life than make rich people richer.”
Had he remained in the business he would have probably been amongst the world’s wealthiest people.
Michael Steinhardt was born to a Jewish family, the son of Sol Frank Steinhardt, a compulsive high-stakes gambler and convicted felon for buying and selling stolen jewelry and sentenced to serve two 5-to-10 year terms. His father was close friends with underworld crime bosses Meyer Lansky, Vincent Alo (aka “Jimmy Blue Eyes” Alo), and Albert Anastasia.
Michael Steinhardt went to the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1960.
He started his career working for the mutual fund Calvin Bullock and the brokerage firm Loeb, Rhoades & Co. His first investment client was his father who would give his son envelopes stuffed with cash to put in the stock market which would also be his seed money to begin his investment career.
In 1967, using earnings from his investments, Michael Steinhardt founded the hedge fund Steinhardt, Fine, and Berkowit Steinhardt Partners. The fund would average an annualized return for its clients of 24.5% which is nearly triple the annualized performance of the S&P 500 Index over the same time frame.
But in the early 1990s, Steinhardt would run into trouble allegedly trying to manipulate the short-term Treasury Note market. He personally paid 75% of a total fine of $70 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice.
Nevertheless, the fund would continue to return above average performance.
In 1995 the hedge fund would close and distributed all monies to its investors.
In 2004, Steinhardt came out of retirement to work for Index Development Partners, Inc., now known as WisdomTree Investments. The fund would outperform its rivals.
In 2008, Steinhardt was inducted into Institutional Investors Alpha’s Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame
Michael Steinhardt is referred to as Wall Street’s greatest trader with a personal net worth at $1.05 billion
INVESTMENT STYLE
Six Rules of Michael Steinhardt:
1. Make all your mistakes early in life
2. Always make your living doing something you enjoy
3. Be intellectually competitive
4. Make good decisions even with incomplete information
5. Always trust your intuition
6. Don’t make small investments
You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth – Michael Steinhardt
LEARNING RESOURCES
In 2001, Michael Steinhardt published an autobiography…
No Bull: My Life in and out of Markets
I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end – Michael Steinhardt
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Michael Steinhardt
www.steinhardtfoundation.org
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