Thomas Peterffy net worth
Thomas Peterffy Net Worth: Thomas Peterffy is a Hungarian-born American billionaire with a net worth of $17 billion, making him one of the richest people in Connecticut. Thomas Peterffy was born in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-60s, where he studied English. He graduated from Clark University with a bachelor’s degree and began his career as a computer programmer, designing trading software. Soon after, he bought a seat on the American Stock Exchange and started trading on his own. Fast-forward to the early 1990s when Mr. Peterffy started his own company, Interactive Brokers, an electronic brokerage firm. The company has been incredibly successful, with its investors returning $1 billion in 2010. The company decided to acquire MF Global at the end of 2011. However, Interactive cross-checked the company and found evidence that MF Global had in fact lost millions of dollars. customer. MF Global is closed and the deal has never been finalized. When not running Interactive, Mr. Peterffy looks after a number of horses on his estate in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Net Worth Details: Thomas Peterffy owns 74.9% of the Interactive Brokers Group. His shares are owned through IBG Holdings, where he also owns 88.7%. Peterffy, who made about $1 billion in the 2007 IPO of Interactive Brokers Group, has received $3 billion worth of dividends. Peterffy said he paid less than $2 billion in taxes over his lifetime.
