Buddy Fletcher

Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher, Jr. (born 1965) is an American trader and money manager. Fletcher began his career as a quantitative equity trader at Bear Stearns but first became noticed when he sued Kidder, Peabody & Co. for racial discrimination and US$3 million in back pay. He eventually won an arbitration award of US$1.3 million. Fletcher was raised in Waterford, Connecticut. His father Alphonse Sr. was a technician at the Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, a company that makes submarines; his mother Bettye, a long-time teacher and later a social worker, a Dean, and school principal, received a Ph.D. in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Fletcher has two younger brothers. His brother Geoffrey S. Fletcher is the...