Founding

In 1985 Robert Perkins left Kemper Financial, where he worked managing money on behalf of Kemper Insurance, with the idea that working at a small independent investment firm could produce outstanding investment results. Bob, along with fellow Kemper colleagues, Tom McDonnell and Tom Perkins, as well as long time friend Greg Wolf, founded Mac Per Wolf out of Bob’s apartment in Chicago. What they created was a self-clearing and self-custodying broker dealer focused on managing a single small cap fund called Omni Fund.

Bob ran investments for Mac Per Wolf and the Omni Fund while Greg handled all of the trading, operations and financials for the company so that Bob could focus on investing. Ultimately the firm began with these four founders and a handful of friends investing $3M in Omni.

Through partnerships with Berger Financial and subsequently Janus Capital, Mac Per Wolf’s fund business was renamed Perkins Investment Management (PIM), an investment firm that grew to over $20B in AUM and was sold to Janus with a final tranche completed in 2014. In 2018 Bob left PIM and subsequently co-founded Hunter Capital Management in 2020, along with Alec Perkins and Tom McDonnell.