Rank #269
Christopher Hohn
Net worth $11.8B
Hedge funds · United Kingdom
- Born
- Oct 27, 1966
- Age
- 59
- Source
- Hedge funds
- Residence
- London
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Activist investor Chris Hohn founded The Children's Investment Fund, a London-based hedge fund, in 2003.
- The fund now manages $77 billion and has large, concentrated positions in a handful of stocks, including Microsoft, Visa and GE Aerospace.
- Hohn donates a portion of the firm's earnings to his Children's Investment Fund Foundation, which has an endowment exceeding $6 billion.
- The son of a Jamaican car mechanic, Hohn attended Southampton University in the U.K. and got an MBA at Harvard.
- He briefly worked in consulting and private equity, before joining Richard Perry's hedge fund, Perry Capital, in 1996.
- Hohn paid his ex-wife, Jamie Cooper, over $500 million in a divorce settlement in 2014, reportedly the largest ever in U.K. history at the time.
- Hohn has steered over $2 billion to charity, earning himself knighthood in 2014.