Thomas M. Taylor, 63;Top Money Manager for Billionaire Bass Brothers
Thomas Malcolm Taylor, 63, the primary money manager for the billionaire Bass brothers of Texas for more than 20 years, died Sunday in a snowmobile accident in Brighton, N.Y.
Taylor and his wife, Linda, were riding on a snowmobile trail that crosses a country road when they collided with a minivan at an intersection. Taylor died at the scene and his wife, who is 57, was flown to a Burlington, Vt., hospital in critical condition.
For most of his career, Taylor had a reputation as a daring and hard-charging money manager. He was working at Kidder Peabody in 1977 when a high school friend persuaded him to leave Wall Street and manage money for the Bass brothers, who made their fortune in oil.
Taylor, who was known as Tommy, grew up in Fort Worth and kept a primary home there. He graduated from Texas Christian University in 1965.
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