10 Most Famous American Investors

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2. George Soros

Net Worth: $6.7 billion

George Soros is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Soros Fund Management, which he turned into a family office in 2011. Soros is called “the man who broke the bank of England” as he predicted the events of Black Wednesday and shorted the British pound. He made a $1 billion profit when the currency devalued. His average annual returns between 1969 to 2000 were 30.5% and he even managed to profit during the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-09 when most hedge funds were losing. George Soros managed to return 8% in 2008 and 29% in 2009.

In the second quarter of 2023, his most prominent bets were Horizon Therapeutics Public Limited Company (NASDAQ:HZNP) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL).

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