Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones joins pledge to give away half his fortune

Hedge fund manager and legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones has joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s pledge to give more than half of his wealth away to charity.

Tudor Jones is among 19 philanthropists who have signed the Giving Pledge in the last year, a commitment created by Gates and Buffett to donate at least half of one’s fortune to philanthropic causes during their lifetime or after their death.

“We are joining the Giving Pledge because it deepens the joy of giving,” Tudor Jones and wife Sonia Tudor Jones said in a statement Tuesday. “We have been giving all of our lives, so taking the Pledge will change nothing in the logistics or amount of our charity.”

More than 200 philanthropists have joined the pledge since its inception in 2010, including Bill Ackman, Ray Dalio, Michael Bloomberg and Mark Zuckerberg. MacKenzie Bezos announced her commitment to the pledge on Tuesday. She has a net worth of $36.6 billion after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-paul-tudor-jones-joins-giving-pledge.html

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