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John Alfred Paulson (born December 14, 1955) is an American hedge fund manager and billionaire〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-paulson/ )〕 who heads Paulson & Co., a New York-based investment management firm he founded in 1994. He has been called "one of the most prominent names in high finance" and "a man who made one of the biggest fortunes in Wall Street history".〔 His prominence and fortune were made in 2007 when he earned "almost $4 billion" personally and was transformed "from an obscure money manager into a financial legend"〔 by using credit default swaps to effectively bet against the U.S. subprime mortgage lending market. In 2010, Paulson earned $4.9 billion. The Forbes real-time tracker estimated his net worth at $11.4 billion on September 18, 2015.〔http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-paulson/〕 ==Early life and education== Paulson was born in 1955 in Queens, New York, the third of four children of Alfredo Guillermo Paulson〔〔(New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths PAULSON, ALFRED G." ) July 25, 2002〕 (November 22, 1924 - July 24, 2002) and Jacqueline Paulson (née Boklan born 1926).〔(The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Changed Financial History ) p.16-25〕 His father was born Alfredo Guillermo Paulsen in Ecuador to a father of half French and half Norwegian descent and an Ecuadorian mother. Alfredo was orphaned at fifteen and at age sixteen moved to Los Angeles with his younger brother Alberto. Alfredo enlisted in the US Army where he served and was wounded in Italy during World War II. He later changed his surname from Paulsen to Paulson.〔〔(El Universo: "Familia de migrantes con raíces europeas" ) December 12, 2010 (in Spanish)〕 John's mother was the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Romania who had moved to New York City. Jacqueline met Alfred while they both attended UCLA. They wed and moved to New York City where Alfred worked at Arthur Andersen〔 and later as the CFO at public relations firm Ruder Finn.〔Goldiner, Dave. ("Queens-born John Paulson makes fortune on home foreclosures" ). ''New York Daily News''. January 16, 2008.〕〔Dion, Don. ("Fund Lessons From John Paulson" ). ''The STREET''. October 10, 2009.〕 John grew up in the Le Havre apartment complex in Queens. His family later moved to a modest home in Beechhurst, Queens. He attended local public schools, where he entered a program for gifted students. He attended synagogue with his family at the Whitestone Hebrew Centre but also listed the "Jesus club" and the "divine light club" among his interests in his yearbook at Bayside High School. Paulson did not find out that his father was not Jewish until he was twelve.〔 In 1973, Paulson entered New York University (NYU). He studied creative writing, film production, and philosophy but grew bored with school. He traveled to South America and stayed with a wealthy uncle in Ecuador〔Ahuja, Maneet. ''The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds''. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.〕 which he told author Gregory Zuckerman, brought him "back to liking money again”. Traveling to Quito he started his first business venture selling cheap children’s clothing to his father back in New York who successfully marketed the clothing to several department stores. Later, Paulson and his father branched into wood parquet flooring.〔 Realizing that sales would not provide a steady and secure cash flow, Paulson returned to NYU in 1976 where he began to excel in business studies.〔 According to Zuckerman, at NYU he "developed a reputation among his classmates for having a unique ability to boil down complex ideas into simple terms".〔Zuckerman, Gregory, ''(The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson ... )'', p.21〕 In 1978, he graduated valedictorian of his class summa cum laude in finance from New York University's College of Business and Public Administration.〔 He went on to Harvard Business School, on a Sidney J. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs scholarship, earning an MBA as a George F. Baker Scholar (top 5 percent of his class) in 1980.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Paulson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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