Bruce karsh family
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Bruce A. Karsh is an American investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a global asset management firm specializing in alternative investments. His Karsh Family Foundation makes grants to left-of-center advocacy organizations including the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence, Common Sense Media, Education Reform Now (ERN), Human Rights First, and the New Venture Fund.
Background
Bruce A. Karsh is an American investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a global asset management firm specializing in alternative investments.
Born in 1955, Karsh earned his undergraduate degree in economics from Duke University and later graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law. He began his career as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy before transitioning into the corporate world, holding positions at O’Melveny & Myers and SunAmerica, Inc. Oaktree manages over $160 billion in assets, primarily in corporate and distressed debt. Karsh and his wife, Martha, have donated over $340 million through the K
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Bruce A. Karsh
Bruce Karsh is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Oaktree Capital Management, a global alternative investment company with $190 billion of assets under management. Mr. Karsh holds an A.B. in economics from Duke University (1977) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law (1980). Now a Trustee Emeritus of Duke University, Mr. Karsh served as Trustee from 2003 to 2015. He currently serves on the Investment Board of the Broad Foundations.
Through the Karsh Family Foundation, which Ms. Karsh and Bruce Karsh, her husband of 43 years, founded together in 1998, and which supports education, community and democracy, the Karshes have made over $400 million in gifts and grants.
At higher education, they have supported financial aid and professorships. They have established major scholarship programs at Duke, the University of Virginia Law School, the University of Pennsylvania, Howard, Spelman, and Brown; two of them are top merit scholarship programs: the Karsh Stem Scholars at Howard and the Karsh-Dillard
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Bruce Karsh
American businessman
Bruce Karsh (born October 10, 1955) is an American investor and former lawyer. In the early 1980s he was an appellate clerk to former Supreme Court of the United States justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and later worked at O'Melveny & Myers, Sun Life Insurance Company (formerly Kaufman & Broad), and the TCW Group. He co-founded Oaktree Capital Management in 1995, later becoming the firm's co-chairman and CIO.[1] As of August 2020, according to Forbes magazine, he has a net worth of $2.1 billion, ranking him No. 391 on the Forbes 400.[2]
Early life and education
Bruce A. Karsh was born in 1955 to a Jewish family,[3] the son of David H. Karsh, and Roberta "Bobby" Karsh.[4][5][6] In 1974, he graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis.[7] In 1977, Karsh earned an A.B. degree in economics from Duke University[8] where he graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[9] In 1980[10] he earned a J.D. fro
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