Scott Minerd

Scott Minerd, who helped transform a small investment firm of the Guggenheim family into a global financial behemoth, becoming one of Wall Street’s leading voices in the process, died on Dec. 21 2022 in Vista, Calif. He was 63. As the global chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners, Mr. Minerd was a regular commentator on Bloomberg Television and CNBC and a fixture at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Between 1983 and 1996, he rose rapidly through the ranks at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley and ran the bond trading desk at Credit Suisse First Boston. But at 37 he retired from banking and moved to Venice Beach, Calif., to pursue a passion for bodybuilding. n 1998, Mark Walter, a Chicago-based financier, sought out Mr. Minerd to join a new firm he was building that would become Guggenheim Partners. Minerd, who amassed a sizable fortune, was also active as a philanthropist, particularly supporting the L.G.B.T.Q. community and other human rights efforts. Byron Scott Minerd was born on March 23, 1959, in Connellsville, Pa., After taking classes at the local outpost of Pennsylvania State University, he transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Minerd served on the board of overseers at the Hoover Institution, the conservative think tank. He is survived by his partner, Eloy Mendez, whom he married in 2017.