John Armitage (banker)

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John Armitage
Born
John Christopher Armitage

(1959-12-20) 20 December 1959 (age 64)
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipIrish (since 2018) [1]
Education Pembroke College, Cambridge
OccupationHedge fund manager
Known forCo-founder and chief investment officer, Egerton Capital
SpouseCatherine Armitage

John Christopher Armitage CBE (born 20 December 1959) is a British-Irish billionaire hedge fund manager, the chief investment officer and a co-founder of Egerton Capital.

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According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Armitage is worth £600 million. [2]

Early life

John Christopher Armitage was born on 20 December 1959. [3] He earned a degree in modern history from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1981. [4] [5]

Career

Armitage joined Morgan Grenfell in 1981, and was a director of Morgan Grenfell Asset Management from March 1991 until he left in 1994. [6]

Armitage and William Bollinger co-founded Egerton Capital in 1994. [7] [8] [9] Armitage is the chief investment officer. [4]

In 2006, Armitage became a member of the investment board of the University of Cambridge. [5]

In the year to 31 March 2014, Egerton made a profit of £141.4 million, which was divided between its 12 partners. [10] At the end of 2017, Egerton had $18.8 billion in assets under management. [7]

Personal life

Armitage lives in London, England. [1] He is married to Catherine Armitage. [3]

In May 2017, he gave £500,000 to the Conservative Party. [11] In 2022, Armitage left the Conservative Party and began donating to the Labour Party, with donations also made to the party leader Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary. [12]

In 2018, he acquired Irish citizenship. [1] In February 2018, he purchased a Park Avenue, New York apartment for US$18 million. [3]

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