| John Armitage | |
| Birth Name: | John Christopher Armitage |
| Birth Date: | 20 December 1959 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Citizenship: | Irish (since 2018)[1] |
| Education: | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Occupation: | Hedge fund manager |
| Known For: | Co-founder and chief investment officer, Egerton Capital |
| Spouse: | Catherine Armitage |
John Christopher Armitage (born 20 December 1959) is a British-Irish billionaire hedge fund manager, the chief investment officer and a co-founder of Egerton Capital.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Armitage is worth £600 million.[2]
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]
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]
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]