[From The Archives] Julian Robertson: Riding The Tiger – 1990 Forbes Interview

Julian Robertson Jr. is a hedge fund pioneer and the founder of Tiger Management, the first of the “Tiger” hedge funds. Robertson became known as the “Wizard of Wall Street” as Tiger Management achieved outsized returns throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It is reported that the compound rate of return to his investors was 32%. Year after year of brilliant returns turned a reported $8 million investment in 1980 into $7.2 billion in 1996. After a run of bad luck, the fund closed for good during 2000. During January 1990, Julian Robertson sat down reporters from Forbes to discuss his investment style and outlook for Tiger…