Andreas Halvorsen Net Worth, Age, Family & Biography $5.9B Real Time Net Worth #448 in the world today

Avan Parvadiya — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:37:22 +0000

About Andreas Halvorsen

Norwegian hedge fund manager Ole Andreas Halvorsen is worth a billion dollars. He is the Chief and a fellow benefactor of the Connecticut-based mutual funds, Viking Worldwide Financial backers. Viking had $24 billion under administration as of October 2017. According to Institutional Investor’s Alpha, Halvorsen ranked 9th in 2015 and 11th in Forbes’ 2012 list of the highest-earning hedge fund managers.

Andreas Halvorsen

Andreas Halvorsen Education

Halvorsen was brought into the world in Norway in 1961. After earning his degree from the Norwegian Naval Academy, he led a Norwegian SEAL team. Halvorsen received his undergraduate degree in economics in 1986 from Williams College, where he was a ski team member. In 1990, he went on to earn his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar at Stanford and was the recipient of the Alexander A. Robichek Student Achievement Award in Finance. Williams now has Halvorsen on its board.

Andreas Halvorsen Career

After completing his education, Halvorsen found employment with Morgan Stanley in the investment banking division. After that, he made the move to Tiger Management Corp., where he served as an analyst, director of equities, senior managing director, and member of the management committee. He sat on Tiger’s warning board, and on the administrative leading group of the association’s biggest asset, Puma Asset N.V.

In 1999, Halvorsen passed on Tiger to help establish Viking Worldwide Financial backers, a trading company overseeing an overabundance of $30 billion capital, of which he is at present the President, close by David Ott and Brian Olson.

The “Tiger Cubs,” former employees of Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management Corporation who now manage hedge funds independently, include Halvorsen, Ott, and Olson. Viking Worldwide’s fundamental tasks cover public value and multifaceted investments on the global market.

Andreas Halvorsen Facts

Halvorsen is on the boards of both Williams College and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Prior to this, Halvorsen served as a trustee for Greenwich Academy, a director for Right To Play USA, and a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business advisory committee.