John Duffield

John Lincoln Duffield[1][2] (born 1939) is a British financier. He founded Jupiter Fund Management, one of the largest fund managers operating in London.

For the English cricketer, see John Duffield (cricketer).

Career

The second son of physician and psychiatrist John Elwes Duffield (1910-2009) and his first wife, Jean Edwina (née Stellman),[3][4] Duffield was educated at Harrow School and then took a degree in biochemistry at the University of Oxford.[5] After this, he went into investment management and, having become manager of his wife's estates, moved to Switzerland as a tax exile.[6]

He founded Jupiter Asset Management in 1985.[7] After selling Jupiter Asset Management to Commerzbank, he founded New Star Asset Management in 2001.[7]

Family

He was married to Vivien Clore but was divorced from her in 1976; they had one son and one daughter.[6] Duffield owns the Marcham Farms estate at Peasemore, Berkshire.[8]

References
  1. The Directory of Directors 2000, vol. 2, U.K. Companies and their directors, Thomas Skinner Directories, p. 572
  2. John Lincoln DUFFIELD details
  3. The Commonwealth Fund Fellows, 1925-1937, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, 1938, p. 51
  4. "DR JOHN DUFFIELD: Psychiatrist died after 99th birthday". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  5. "John Duffield: the fading star once dubbed 'Croesus in a Mondeo'". MoneyWeek. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  6. What is to become of John Duffield? Archived 2010-09-25 at the Wayback Machine Evening Standard, 2 December 2008
  7. John Duffield rebounds from fall of New Star, Telegraph.co.uk, 15 April 2009.
  8. "The thirty landowners who own half a county". Who owns England?.


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