Stephen Smith
$4.38B
$7.6M (-0.2%)
as of 07/02/24
About Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is the founder and executive chairman of Canadian mortgage lender First National Financial.
Smith launched the company in 1988, just four years after being personally bankrupt, and took it public in 2006.
He also owns about half of Canada Guaranty Mortgage Insurance Company and a stake in publicly traded Canadian bank EQB.
In 2023, he acquired lender Home Trust for more than $1.2 billion.
Smith has donated donated more than $100 million to Queen's University, where the business school is named after him.
Personal stats
Citizenship
CanadaSource of wealth
Finance and investmentsResidence
Toronto, CanadaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
06/02/51 (age 73)Number of children
3Education
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Queens UniversitySelf-made
self-madeStephen Smith’s fortune is worth
73K
troy ounces of gold
67K
median U.S. household
44K
median U.S. income
0.088%
U.S. credit card volume
0.018%
GDP of the United States
0.013%
United States debt
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Smith has passed his love of heli-skiing onto his three adult children, and Smith's wife cooks for the tight-knit family every Sunday night.
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TORONTO | EQB-CA
Equitable GroupTORONTO | FN-CA
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