Druckenmiller, After Quitting Fund, Becomes Uber-Philanthropist

``Last year, billionaire fund manager Stanley F. Druckenmiller shifted $700 million of his own money to his family foundation. Before the transfer, the foundation had assets of about $6.5 million... The Pittsburgh native, who dropped out of a Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan, launched his career as an analyst at Pittsburgh National Bank. He made his mark as the lead portfolio manager for George Soros’s Quantum Fund by managing money for Soros beginning in 1988. In 1992 Druckenmiller made a profit of more than $1 billion for Soros by speculating the British pound would be devalued.''