Andy Kaiser Investing Himself in Educating Children and Professionals
By Cathy Padilla | Photo Carmela Caracappa
My barn, my rules. Almost hidden from view by the curtains “We had to buy it,” said Andy in his open and welcoming way. dressing a nearby window, these words are faintly inscribed “My wife, Lauren, was upset with me for about a year, but on a small, red sign that hangs behind Andy Kaiser’s desk in then it all worked out.” And it has worked out very well. The the second story office of his barn. It’s a normal barn, mostly, school has been redone and expanded, modernized, and enjoys outfitted on the first floor with tractors and hay bales, goats, full enrollment with a waiting list for new students. Mountain sheep, and even a pony. But it also houses miniature furniture Hill Investment Partners is growing and poised for even more designed for multiple small children and an office on the second success with a laser-focus on 401k investments. And the Kaisers floor that contains a Bloomberg Terminal and a company that have a beautiful log-cabin dream home they custom built in a handles multiple million-dollar accounts for its clients. Welcome town they adore. But the “had to” in Andy’s comment is where to Mountain Hill Investment Partners, Mountain Hill School, the story begins. and the Andrew and Lauren Kaiser 12-acre farm in the hills of Atlantic Highlands. What prompts a wildly successful, suit-wearing Wall Street guy originally from Long Island with absolutely no background A prominent and successful Wall Street investment advisor that in education to trade his work life in for mowing the lawn and worked for both Dillon Reed and UBS, Andy traded in his long feeding the goats on a farm that comes with a preschool? And commute and the excitement of Manhattan when the Mountain how did he manage to get his likewise successful wife to not Hill School and farm went up for sale nearly fifteen years ago. only go along with this, but agree to run the school? The answer
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