George Soros

George Soros is a legendary hedge fund tycoon who managed client money in New York from 1969 to 2011.In 1992, Soros shorted the British pound and reportedly made a profit of $1 billion. He became known as the man who broke the Bank of England.Soros shifted $18 billion from his family office to his Open Society Foundations by 2018. His fund's assets are worth an estimated $8.3 billion. Soros was born in Hungary; at 17 he left the country and put himself through the London School of Economics working as a railway porter and waiter.He founded the Open Society Foundations, which focuses in part on Central and Eastern Europe, and has made at least $14 billion in grants.