Israel Alexander Englander was born on 1948 and is an American billionaire hedge fund manager.
10 Facts About Israel Englander
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Israel "Izzy" Englander was born in 1948 and was raised in a Polish-Jewish family in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Israel Englander was raised in a religious home and attended yeshiva.
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Always interested in the stock market, Englander began trading stocks while in high school.
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Israel Englander later enrolled in New York University's MBA program in the evenings but never completed the degree.
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At Kaufmann Alsberg, Israel Englander focused on trading convertible securities and options.
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Since then, Israel Englander has grown Millennium into a $39.2 billion enterprise by using investment strategies like statistical arbitrage ; fundamental long-short investing; merger arbitrage and convertible arbitrage.
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Israel Englander was married to Caryl Israel Englander until 2023.
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In 2006, the Israel Englander Foundation, headed by Israel Englander and his wife, donated $20 million to mostly Jewish organizations and schools.
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Israel Englander serves on the board of Weill Cornell Medical College and the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.