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The man selling the Lakers: Mark Walter’s unravelling empire

Private capital saw an opportunity to make insurance much more profitable. At what risk?

Mark Walter, a shy Midwesterner trained far from Wall Street, built an investment giant over long years by pioneering a shift by insurance companies in need of higher returns into private investments.

It is a trade that helped win $367bn of assets under management for Walter’s Guggenheim Partners and made the billionaire a titan in the world of sport, with stakes in the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, Chelsea Football Club and baseball’s LA Dodgers.

At one point Walter came close to making Guggenheim a higher-octane Wall Street replica of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

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