George Soros born August 12, 1930
The life cycle 6 3
Important years of life
1950 6
1956 3
1959 6
1965 3
1968 6
1974 3
1977 6
1983 3
1986 6
1992 3
1995 6
2001 3
2004 6
2010 3
2013 6
2019 3
2022 6
In 1956 Soros moved to New York City, where he worked as an arbitrage trader for F.M. Mayer (1956–59). He specialized in European stocks, which were becoming popular with U.S. institutional investors following the formation of the Coal and Steel Community, which later became the Common Market….
…In 1959, after three years at F.M. Mayer, he moved to Wertheim & Co. as an analyst of European Securities…
Andrea Soros Colombel (born 1965)
Spouse(s)
Annaliese Witschak (m. 1960; div.1983)
Susan Weber Soros (m. 1983; div. 2005)
Tamiko Bolton (m. 2013)
….He is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of Pound sterling, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis…
In 1992, Robert Daniel Soros (born 1963) married Melissa Robin Schiff at the Temple Emanu-El in New York City
Soros was a financial backer of Washington Soccer L.P., the group that owned the operating rights to Major League Soccer club D.C. United when the league was founded in 1995
Soros was not a large donor to U.S. political causes until the 2004 presidential election, but according to the Center for Responsive Politics, during the 2003–04 election cycle, Soros donated $23,581,000 to various 527 Groups
Soros gave $3 million to the Center for American Progress, $2.5 million to MoveOn.org, and $20 million[144] to America Coming Together. These groups worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election.
Alexander Soros (born 1985): Alexander is also gaining prominence for his donations to social and political causes, focusing his philanthropic efforts on “progressive causes that might not have widespread support.”[74] Alexander serves on the boards of Jewish Funds for Justice and Global Witness, and led the list of student political donors in the 2010 election cycle
…In 2013 the Quantum Fund made $5.5 billion, making it again the most successful hedge fund in history…
Soros’s elder brother Paul Soros, a private investor and philanthropist, died on June 15, 2013