George Soros Net Worth: How did George Soros get his money?

George Soros is a Hungarian-American philanthropist and businessman. Soros had a net worth of US$8.6 billion as of March 2021, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, $15 billion of which had already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. Forbes dubbed him the “most generous giver” in the world.

Soros, who was born in Budapest to a non-observant Jewish family, escaped the Nazi occupation of Hungary and immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1947. Soros earned a BSc in philosophy from the London School of Economics in 1951, followed by a Master of Science degree in philosophy in 1954.

George Soros Net Worth: How did George Soros get his money?

Soros began his business career by working at merchant banks in the UK and then the US before launching his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969. Profits from his first fund provided the seed money for Soros Fund Management, his second venture. George Soros has an estimated net worth of $6.7 billion.

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