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Leon Levy

Leon Levy is currently the chairman of the board of trustees of the New York—based Oppenheimer Funds. He is president of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and vice-chairman of the Jerome Levy Institute for Economic Research at Bard College. (December 1998)

IN THE REVIEW

Hedge Fund Mysteries

When the investment fund called Long-Term Capital Management almost collapsed last August, the event sent tremors throughout the financial world. Many feared that Long-Term Capital’s problems would spread to other institutions as the prices of financial assets generally fell. Suddenly attention was concentrated on the arcane and mostly unregulated investments …

Wall Street Blues

Leon Levy started his career on Wall Street as a security analyst and became a partner in Oppenheimer & Co., then a small brokerage firm, in 1951. He and his partner, Jack Nash, built the firm into one of the leading brokerage and mutual fund companies in the nation. They …