Michael F. Price (born May 17, 1953) is a value investor and fund manager in Far Hills, New Jersey.
 

Career
 

He began his career in 1973 when he joined Max Heine at Mutual Series. In 1982, he became a full partner[2] and when Heine died in 1988, became the president and chairman. In 1996, Mutual Series was merged into Franklin Templeton Investments. In 1998, Price stepped down from day-to-day fund management duties but continued as chairman of the company, and in 2001, he left the firm to begin his own fund company.[3]
 

Personal life
 

Price is married and has four children. He was ranked by Forbes in February 2006 as the 562-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion。

He has donated tens of millions of dollars to his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma.[5] The OU College of Business, one of its buildings, and a large endowment bear his name. The CCTM, officially opening in June 2008 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, bears his name too.
 

Education
 

University of Oklahoma, Bachelor of Business Administration, 1973.