Peter de Putron | |
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| Born | Peter Nicholas de Putron [1] 15 October 1963 |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation(s) | Investor, hedge fund manager |
| Known for | Owner of G-Research |
| Spouse | Carolynne Hayley Salmon [3] |
| Children | 4 [1] |
Peter Nicholas de Putron (born 15 October 1963 [1] ) is a British financier, and the founder of De Putron Fund Management, G-Research and associated companies. [4]
De Putron grew up in Guernsey, where his father was a local politician. [5] He attended Eton College. [4]
De Putron graduated from Jesus College, University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in engineering science. [2]
De Putron began his career in the corporate finance department of Royal Bank of Canada in 1985. From 1987 to 1990 he, worked at GNI, a brokerage firm where he traded derivatives. From 1990 to 1992, De Putron attended Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania graduating in 1992 with a Master of Business Administration in finance and entrepreneurial management. He then worked at IFM, a London-based hedge fund where he specialized in market neutral solutions. [2]
He founded De Putron Fund Management in 1997, which had seed money from George Soros. [2] [4] G-Research, a quantitative investment firm is part of the De Putron Fund Management Group.
De Putron is resident in Jersey. He is regarded as a very private individual. [4]
De Putron is the brother-in-law of Andrea Leadsom, a British Conservative Party member of Parliament and financial services minister who was briefly a contender for the position of leader of the Conservative party and hence Prime Minister in July 2016. Leadsom also worked for De Putron Fund Management in the 1990s. [5] [6] [7] [8]
He has donated money to the Leadsom and the Conservative Party, as well as Eurosceptic think tanks. [9]
De Putron was one of those mentioned in the "Jersey files" which were leaked from Kleinwort Benson to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. [10]