Brian Higgins is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Co-Portfolio Manager of King Street Capital Management. He leads the firm, which focuses on distressed securities and, as of 2025, continues to be a key figure in the investment firm's management. The firm is a recognized alternative investment manager.
Brian Higgins is the Founder and Managing Partner of King Street Capital Management, a $30 billion global investment firm he started in 1995. Over 30 years, Brian has grown King Street into a leading global alternative asset manager with a platform spanning public and private credit, structured credit and real estate.
Brian Higgins, King Street Capital Management founder and managing partner, joins CNBC's 'Money Movers' to discuss market outlooks, alternative investments, and much more.
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King Street Founder Brian Higgins talks his credit playbook
Who is the richest hedge fund owner?
The world's top three richest hedge fund managers. Ken Griffin: The founder of Citadel has a net worth of $50 billion. David Tepper: President and Founder of Appaloosa Management has a net worth of $24 billion. Steve Cohen: Point72's boss has a net worth of $23 billion.
Tony is responsible for managing Arrowstreet Capital's day-to-day business affairs as well as developing and implementing Arrowstreet's strategic business plan. He chairs the firm's Operating Committee and joined Arrowstreet Capital's Board of Directors in 2012.
Eventually, Burry's analysis proved correct: He made a personal profit of $100 million and a profit for his remaining investors of more than $700 million.
King Street is a leading global alternative asset manager founded in 1995 that manages more than $30 billion* across an institutional platform spanning multiple segments of the public and private markets.
Howard Stanley Marks (born 1946) is an American investor and writer. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, the largest investor in distressed securities worldwide. In 2022, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, Marks was ranked No. 1365 on the Forbes list of billionaires.
As of 2024, King Street Capital Management managed approximately $26 billion of assets. The firm employs approximately 250 employees and operates offices in New York, London, Singapore, Charlottesville, Virginia, Dublin, Tokyo, Dubai and Palo Alto.
Higgins is a member of the Democratic Party, and of several congressional committees and caucuses. He was born and raised Buffalo, New York, before obtaining a bachelor's and master's from Buffalo State College and an MPA from Harvard University. Brian Higgins. Official portrait, 2005.
No single entity owns 93% of the stock market, but rather the wealthiest 10% of U.S. households own approximately 93% of all U.S. stocks and mutual funds, a record high concentration of wealth, according to Federal Reserve data from late 2023/early 2024. This means a very small percentage of Americans hold the vast majority of stock market wealth, with the top 1% alone owning about 54%.
Strategic thinking: A managing director is often the highest executive within a company, and it's important for them to strategically plan how their business should progress.
It also highlights some of the people involved in the biggest losses in the market crash: Wing Chau, Merrill's $300 million mezzanine CDO manager; Howie Hubler, known as the person who lost $9 billion in one trade, the fifth-largest single loss in history; and Joseph Cassano's AIG Financial Products, which suffered ...
