Rank #1156
Peter Hargreaves
Net worth $3.7B
Financial services · United Kingdom
- Born
- Oct 05, 1946
- Age
- 79
- Source
- Financial services
- Residence
- Bristol
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- From his spare bedroom in Bristol, England, Peter Hargreaves and pal Stephan Lansdown founded a financial-services firm in 1981.
- Hargreaves was a chartered accountant for businesses like KPMG before starting the company, Hargreaves Lansdown.
- He no longer sits on the firm's board, but still owns nearly 20% of the over $190 billion (assets under administration) business.
- In 2017 Hargreaves launched Blue Whale, a fund manager for UK investors.
- He is also the primary stakeholder at GomSpace, specializing in ground stations for satellite communications
- Hargreaves is reportedly the second biggest financial backer of Brexit, donating more than $4 million to the cause.
- Hargreaves owns an Embraer Legacy 500 jet capable of flying from the UK to Dubai.
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