John Lincoln Duffield (born 1939) is a British financier. He founded
Jupiter Fund Management
Jupiter Fund Management is a UK fund management group, managing equity and bond investments for private and institutional investors. The company manages assets across a wide range of international and UK based mutual funds, investment companies ...
, one of the largest fund managers operating in
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
.
Career
The second son of
physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
and
psychiatrist John Elwes Duffield (1910-2009) and his first wife, Jean Edwina (née Stellman), Duffield was educated at
Harrow School and then took a degree in biochemistry at the University of Oxford. After this, he went into investment management and, having become manager of his wife's estates, moved to
Switzerland as a
tax exile
A tax exile is a person who leaves a country to avoid the payment of income tax or other taxes. The term refers to an individual who already owes money to the tax authorities or wishes to avoid being liable in the future for taxation at what they ...
.
[What is to become of John Duffield?]
Evening Standard, 2 December 2008
He founded
Jupiter Asset Management in 1985.
[John Duffield rebounds from fall of New Star]
Telegraph.co.uk, 15 April 2009. After selling Jupiter Asset Management to
Commerzbank, he founded
New Star Asset Management in 2001.
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Family
He was married to Vivien Clore but was divorced from her in 1976; they had one son and one daughter.[ Duffield owns the Marcham Farms estate at ]Peasemore
Peasemore is a village and civil parish in the English ceremonial and historic county of Berkshire in the West Berkshire unitary authority area, west of the A34 road and north of the town of Newbury.
Geography
Peasemore is a small community wit ...
, Berkshire.
References
External links
John Duffield's official website
1939 births
British financial businesspeople
People educated at Harrow School
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
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