Marcel Erni
$3.51B
as of 10/04/24
About Marcel Erni
Marcel Erni is the cofounder of Partners Group, a Swiss private equity firm with more than $131 billion in assets under management.
He started Partners Group in 1996 with fellow billionaires Alfred Gantner and Urs Wietlisbach; the trio had all worked at Zurich's Goldman Sachs.
The firm was reportedly created in a 300-square-foot office with Ikea desks, with its founders pooling together $100,000 for its startup capital.
Partners Group went public in Switzerland a decade later, and Erni still owns roughly 5% of the stock.
The University of Chicago alum also did a stint at McKinsey & Co. and has a PhD in finance and banking from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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SwitzerlandSource of wealth
Private equityResidence
Zug, SwitzerlandBirth date
01/01/65 (age 59)Self-made
self-madeMarcel Erni’s fortune is worth
59K
troy ounces of gold
54K
median U.S. household
35K
median U.S. income
0.07%
U.S. credit card volume
0.014%
GDP of the United States
0.01%
United States debt
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Did you know?
In 2021, Partners Group banned its staff from using the word "deal," asking them to think more like founders and less like short-term investors.
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