Leon Levy (September 13, 1925 – April 6, 2003) [1] was an American investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist. At his death, Forbes magazine called him “a Wall Street investment genius,” [2] who helped create both mutual funds and hedge funds.

Leon Levy spent his professional life on Wall Street, starting out as a research analyst after leaving the U.S. Army. Within three years, he was the youngest partner of Oppenheimer & Co. During the next five decades, he became one of the most innovative and influential figures in …

Grants Policy: The Leon Levy Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals or letters of inquiry.Grants are made by invitation only.

Apr 7, 2003 · Leon Levy Leon Levy , a Wall Street investment genius and prolific philanthropist, died Sunday, April 6. He was 77 years old and had suffered a series of heart attacks in recent days.

Apr 8, 2003 · Leon Levy, a hedge fund pioneer who began investing at 13 with $200 and went on to make many millions, enough to make him one of the main individual backers of archaeological research, died on...

The Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve is a 30-acre botanical garden located in Eleuthera, The Bahamas. Managed by The Bahamas National Trust, it is a living part of Bahamian history and was the first national park on the island of Eleuthera.

Leon Levy, life trustee of Bard College and founder of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, died on April 6, 2003, at his home in Manhattan. Mr. Levy was the leading donor to Bard College and the chairman of the Levy Institute’s board of governors.

Historian, biographer and screenwriter, Ward the author of sixteen books, including A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Leon Levy Foundation, founded in 2004, is a private foundation created from Leon Levy’s Estate by his wife and Founding Trustee, Shelby White. The Foundation continues Leon Levy’s philanthropic legacy and builds on his vision.

Jun 25, 2008 · A big-picture thinker, Leon Levy was the yin to Jack Nash’s yang at groundbreaking Odyssey Partners, which returned 22 percent annually over its 15-year life.

Supporting exceptional early-career neuroscientists in New York City as they pursue innovative investigations into the brain. In 2022, the Foundation partnered with The New York Academy of Sciences to establish the Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience.

The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon | Semitic Museum at Harvard University, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. facebook ...

The Leon Levy Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation that endeavours to build on Leon’s vision, encouraging and supporting excellence in six broad areas: understanding the ancient world; arts and humanities; preservation of nature and gardens; brain research and science; human rights; and Jewish culture.

Apr 8, 2003 · Leon Levy, who founded OppenheimerFunds Inc., the ninth-largest U.S. mutual fund group with more than $120 billion in assets, has died. He was 77.

Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat out.

Leon Levy (September 13, 1925 – April 6, 2003) was, according to Forbes magazine, a “Wall Street investment genius and prolific philanthropist,” who helped create both mutual funds and hedge funds.[2] He co-founded the mutual fund manager Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. in 1959.

Since 2015, Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum. For more than 30 years, Anne has devoted her career to engaging broad audiences with art’s limitless power to move, motivate, and inspire. As a staunch advocate for the civic and democratic roles our cultural and educational institutions ...

For a good part of my life, I read about the great booms and busts of history—the South Sea bubble, the tulip mania, the 1929 crash—but in the late 1990s, I knew my bubble had finally come. I’ve had two loves in my life: One is the stock market, the other psychology. Nothing ever happens without people making decisions.

The Leon Levy Foundation, founded in 2004, is a private foundation created from Leon Levy’s Estate by his wife and Founding Trustee, Shelby White. The Foundation continues Leon Levy’s philanthropic legacy and builds on his vision.

Feb 17, 2011 · Levy was a key figure in the trade union movement in South Africa and later in industrial relations in the United Kingdom. In the mid 1950s he was part of a small group of progressive trade unionists who pushed for the formation of the first non-racial trade union federation in South Africa.

Sep 1, 2017 · Levy became a managing partner in 1959, and helped Oppenheimer grow into a successful mutual fund firm, before it was sold in 1982 for $165m. Levy then set up hedge fund Odyssey Partners...

The Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Library includes selections from the New-York Historical Society's archives and the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library's collections of photographs, manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and other materials relating to the history of New York and the United States. They represent over two centuries of collecting at ...