Former Lehman CEO Fuld Emerges as Backer of Wealth-Advisory Firm
New family office to assist clients of Fuld’s Matrix Advisors
Former Neuberger Berman executives team up with Fuld
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Originally published January 18, 2017 at 9:19am EST
Richard Fuld is backing a multifamily office that will help small-business owners manage their personal wealth, part of a comeback effort by the former head of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Matrix Wealth Partners, in registering as an investment adviser last month, disclosed that it’s partly owned by Fuld. The New York-based firm’s other owners are Matthew Rubin and Justin Gaines, both of whom come from Neuberger Berman, a former Lehman money-management unit that oversaw about $255 billion at the end of September.
The multifamily office will complement Matrix Advisors, a consulting firm that Fuld set up in the aftermath of Lehman’s September 2008 bankruptcy to help small and medium-sized companies raise cash, according to the filing. Fuld’s clients could hire Matrix Advisors to help them sell their closelyheld businesses, then turn to Matrix Wealth Partners for advice on how toinvest the proceeds. Investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the former Lehman have employed similar strategies.
“It’s a tried-and-true approach,” said Guy Moszkowski, an analyst atAutonomous Research. “If you are Goldman and you help a company go public,” he said, “you are going to try very hard to be” the private wealth manager for the entrepreneur who cashed out. […]