Julian Robertson

Here are some reactions and remembrances from prominent investors across Wall Street about the billionaire philanthropist, who they described as “a true mentor” ...

Influential hedge fund manager spawned dynasty of 'Tiger cubs' who trace origins to firm.

“You showed us how the best investors think and invest.” His aim was to find the best 20 stocks to buy, and the worst 20 to bet against. “I had such a good time talking to him that I gave him all of our capital,” he told the Financial Times. “Julian was a legendary investor and a generous mentor,” Laffont, founder of Coatue Capital, said on Tuesday. Stern’s famous interview tests, consisting of about 450 questions, helped Robertson identify the best analysts to recruit. He started Tiger with $8mn in funds, according to his spokesperson, and eventually built it into one of the world’s largest hedge funds with $21bn under management.

Every journalist of a certain age has moments in their career that never leave them, that they regret, Marty Sharpe shares this one.

And those articles are free. We’d bonded, in a way, and to have harked back to the topic of money was, in hindsight, rude. That’s a terrible question.” He squinted his eyes, frowned, shook his head, and said: “What a terrible question. "Isn't that just great? * Not my sort of bloke, generally. He’d built a reputation as a shrewd, prosaic and somewhat ruthless money man. How can you ask a question like that? I never got an answer.

Julian Robertson, a Wall Street investor who with a handful of others pushed short-selling into the mainstream, helping to create the modern hedge fund ...

Robertson as saying, “The mistake that we made was that we got too big.” This meant, he added, that “to make it meaningful we had to buy a huge amount of a company’s stock, and there were only a few companies” where that was an option. In addition to his son Alex and his sister Wyndham, Mr. Robertson single-minded and hypercompetitive, he said it would “thrill” him to be remembered for giving his money away. A statement by his publicist said that over his lifetime he contributed more than $2 billion to charity. In a 2004 biography, “Julian Robertson: A Tiger in the Land of Bulls and Bears,” Daniel A. Steinhardt — was quoted in Sebastian Mallaby’s industry history “More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite” (2010) as saying that if he were to “give my own money to any of them, I would have given it to Robertson.” After its opening in 2000, it was named one of the five best courses in the world by Golfweek magazine. His mother, Blanche, was a local activist whom the mayor called the city’s “biggest cheerleader.” But in 1978, tired of the related marketing chores, Mr. C., the son of a textile executive he said was descended from Pocahontas. Robertson was not only a champion investor — a Business Week cover once hailed him as “the best stock picker on the Street” — but also a mentor to several dozen hedge fund progeny. His legacy included traders known as Tiger “cubs,” who started in his employ and then went out on their own, and Tiger “seeds,” whose budding funds he supported with investment.

Robertson owned the golf courses at Kauri Cliffs and Cape Kidnappers.