Mark Walter

CEO, Guggenheim Partners LLC

$5.96B

as of 10/04/24

About Mark Walter

Mark Walter is CEO of investment firm Guggenheim Partners, which has more than $300 billion in assets under management.

Walter helped found the firm in the late 1990s after he folded his Chicago-based company, Liberty Hampshire, into the Guggenheim family office.

A yearlong SEC probe into Guggenheim over controversial real estate deals linked to Walter reportedly ended in 2019 with no penalty.

Walter's personal investments include stakes in plant-based food maker Beyond Meat and online car vendor Carvana.

Walter has been an owner of the LA Dodgers since 2012, when his investment group (which includes Magic Johnson) purchased the team for $2.2 billion.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Finance, asset management

Residence

Chicago, Illinois

Marital status

Married

Birth date

05/22/60 (age 64)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Creighton University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Northwestern University

Self-made

self-made

Mark Walter’s fortune is worth

99K

troy ounces of gold

92K

median U.S. household

60K

median U.S. income

0.119%

U.S. credit card volume

0.024%

GDP of the United States

0.018%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Walter, who earned a law degree from Northwestern University before going into finance, gave $40 million to the school in 2014.