Bruce Karsh is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on October 10, 1955 in United States, United States.
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. As of August 2016 according to Forbes magazine, he has a net worth of $1.98 billion.
In 1987, Broad’s insurance company became a client of TCW Group. Shortly thereafter, Karsh was hired by Howard Marks to manage distressed debt at TCW. TCW’s first distressed debt fund was started in 1988. Karsh served as Managing Director of TCW and managed the Special Credits Funds there.
