Tobias Levkovich, a prominent Wall Street analyst, died on Friday at 60, and tributes to the Citigroup equity strategist are rolling in.
“Wall Street lost one of its brightest minds, biggest hearts, and kindest souls on Friday,” wrote Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. equity trading strategy at RBC Capital Markets, in a note on LinkedIn.
“I learned so much from Tobias about the stock market. But it is his willingness to tackle consensus thinking head-on that I’ll remember the most and hope that I’ll always keep with me,” wrote Calvasina, who was a protégé of Levkovich’s when she worked at Citi from 2000 to 2010.
Levkovich lived in the hamlet of Hewlett in Nassau County, N.Y., located on the south shore of Long Island, and died after succumbing to injuries after being hit by a 2015 Toyota Camry while crossing Peninsula Boulevard at around 6 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 1 en route to his shul
Doug Kass, president of hedge fund Seabreeze Partners Management, and a close friend of Levkovich’s, in a blog post wrote that although the strategist in the “investment community” was known as “Tobias,” his family, friends “and the Jewish community, knew him as Tuvia, which in Hebrew means ‘God is good.’”
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Tobias Levkovich was a managing director and chief US equity strategist in Citigroup…not just an analyst…He appeared regularly on CNBC.
From what we are all reading it seemed he made a kiddush H-shem…