- James Ratcliffe $15.3 billion
James Ratcliffe, 70, is a former chemical engineer. He is the chairman and owner of Ineos Chemicals Group. The company operates refineries and petrochemical operations in Italy, Canada, Belgium, Scotland and Germany.
In April 2010, James Ratcliffe moved the company headquarters from Hampshire to Switzerland and that action reduced amount of taxes paid by 100 million British Pounds per year.
James Ratcliffe owns a real estate property on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. He also owns hotels, Lime Wood and Le Portetta in France.
James Ratcliffe loves physical adventure and has been involved in touring the North and South poles and has been engaged in a three month-long motorbike trip in South Africa.
Further, in 2013 he completed a marathon across the Sahara desert. James Ratcliff owns two super yachts.
2. Michael Platt $15.2 billion
Michael Platt is the CEO and cofounder of BlueCrest Capital Management, which was founded in 2000. Previously he had worked for JP Morgan for a decade.
Michael Platt built his company BlueCrest into a leading hedge fund firms. At one point the company managed assets valued at $35 billion.
3. Hinduja Brothers $14.8 billion
The Hinduja Family has interests in oil and gas, banking, trucks, IT, chemicals and real estate operations among others.
4. Christopher Hohn $7.9 billion
Christopher Hohn runs an hedge fund. He established The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI) in 2003. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the son of a Jamaican car mechanic. He is now a billionaire hedge fund manager.
Christopher Hohn was paying himself 1.5 million British pounds per day in 2022 as an Hedge Fund Manager. Therefore, he took home $690 million in 2022. This is the largest amount of money ever paid to one person in Britain.
Christopher and TCI are known as activist investors because they campaign for change in companies where they invest. He avoids meat and practices yoga.
5. Ian & Richard Livingstone $7.9 billion
Brothers Richard and Ian Livingstone own real estate properties across London which includes apartments, high-end shops and hotels. They own Panama Pacifico which is made up of 20,000 residential properties, commercial space, retail and industrial parks.
In a few words these are real estate tycoons who have built a fortune over three decades of doing business.
The two brothers and sons of a dentist own London & Regional Properties company.
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