Seth Klarman

CEO & President, Baupost Group
$1.31B
as of 07/05/24

About Seth Klarman

Seth Klarman runs Boston-based hedge fund Baupost, which has $27.4 billion under management as of March 2023.

Klarman's book "Margin of Safety," a cult classic among value investors, sells for about $1,700 on Amazon.

Once a major donor to the Republican Party, Klarman publicly denounced Trump in 2016, and has been contributing to the Democratic Party.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Investments

Residence

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Marital status

Married

Birth date

05/01/57 (age 67)

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Cornell University; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University

Self-made

self-made

Seth Klarman’s fortune is worth

22K

troy ounces of gold

20K

median U.S. household

13K

median U.S. income

0.026%

U.S. credit card volume

0.005%

GDP of the United States

0.004%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

In 2017, Klarman's horse, Cloud Computing, won the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, the racetrack he grew up next to in Baltimore.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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