Richard Alan Kayne (born 1945/1946) is an American billionaire private equity investor and the majority owner of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisers, which he founded in 1984 and has $26 billion in assets under management.

Biography

Kayne was born to a Jewish family, the son of Ida and Jerry Kayne. In 1966, Kayne graduated with a BS in statistics from

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; and in 1968, an MBA from UCLA. After school, he worked as an analyst in New York and then as a principal at Cantor Fitzgerald. In 1984, Kayne co-founded Kayne Anderson Capital Advisers with

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Personal life

Kayne is a director of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles and a trustee of the UCLA Foundation. As of August 2017, his net worth is estimated at $1.3 billion. He is married to Suzanne, a Los Angeles County Museum of Art trustee. They live in Santa Monica, and have three daughters: Jenni Kayne Ehrlich (who has her own clothing line with six stores); Maggie Kayne (who founded the Kayne Griffin Corcoran art gallery with Bill Griffin and James Corcoran; and Saree Kayne. Although his wife is not Jewish, they raised their daughters in the Jewish faith.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kayne, Richard Living people American billionaires American investors 20th-century American Jews Year of birth missing (living people) 1940s births Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni UCLA Anderson School of Management alumni