Английская Википедия:Andrew Law (financier)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Andrew Eric Law (born June 1966) is a British financier, hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and major shareholder of Caxton Associates, a hedge fund headquartered on Berkeley Square in London. He is a major donor to the Conservative Party.
Early life
Andrew Eric Law was born in June 1966,[1] and raised in Cheadle Hulme near Stockport, England.[2][3] His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a nurse.[2] He was educated at Cheadle Hulme High School.[2] He graduated from the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with a First Class honours degree in Economics in 1987.[4][5][6]
Career
He started his career in finance at County NatWest, now known as NatWest.[2][4] He then worked as a trader at the Chemical Bank.[2][4][6] In 1996, he joined Goldman Sachs, later becoming a managing director, where he oversaw FICC.[4][6]
Caxton Associates
He started working at Caxton Associates in London in 2003.[4][6] In 2008, he became its chief investment officer.[4][5][7] Since 2012, he has been its chairman and chief executive officer.[5][6][7] Law is the company's main shareholder.[8]
In 2017, Caxton Associates made £7.3 million profit, down from £95.8 million in 2016.[8]
Political affiliations
Between May 2010 and January 2015, he donated £947,911 to the Conservative Party, making him its 11th biggest donor in this period.[9] In May 2017, he gave £250,000 to the Conservative Party.[10]
During the 2019 United Kingdom general election campaign Law donated £413,750 to the Conservative Party.[11]
Philanthropy
He co-chairs the Law Family Charitable Foundation with his wife.[4] They support many non-profit organisations, including the Policy Exchange, a think tank based in Westminster.[4] In 2014, they donated £1 million to The Lowry in Salford, where the spaces inside the Main Gallery were renamed The Andrew and Zoë Law Galleries.[12][13] In 2022, the Foundation provided the £8.1 million funding for the Lowry to purchase L.S.Lowry's Going to the Match, the 1953 painting of people on their way to watch a Bolton Wanderers match at the former Burnden Park stadium.[14]
In 2021 the Law Family Charitable Foundation donated £5.85m to the University of Sheffield to launch a new student support programme and search for new therapies for a range of incurable and debilitating diseases.[15]
In 2022, the Foundation donated £3million to the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester to fund the future of its Power Hall gallery, which will reopen in 2024.[16] In the same year, the Foundation donated £2.9million to Factory International, a destination for arts, music and culture, commissioning and present a year-round programme of interdisciplinary work by leading artists, due to open in 2023.[17]
Law is the chairman of the board of trustees of Speakers for Schools, which invites public speakers to state schools in the UK.[4] He spoke at the Trinity C.E. High School in Manchester.[2] He is on the board of trustees of Social Finance.[4] Additionally, he is a patron of the Hotcourses Foundation, which helps vulnerable schoolchildren in Kenya.[18]
In an op-ed published in The Huffington Post in 2014, he called for hedge fund managers to be more philanthropic.[19]
Personal life
He is married to Zoë Law (née Purvis),[20][4] a former make-up artist whose clients included Sienna Miller, and Emilia Fox and Tamara Mellon. [20] They have a house in west London.[21]
She is now a photographer whose portfolio includes the exhibition LIFE,[22] with portraits of 21 people who have cancer. The exhibition, which was displayed at The Lowry in Salford Quays in 2019,[23] was set up to raise awareness of the cancer support provided by the Maggie's Centres.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2022, Law is worth £750 million.[24]
He is a supporter of the football team, Manchester City F.C.[2] He owns "Manchester City vs Sheffield United", a 1938 painting by L. S. Lowry.[2]
References
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- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 Andrew Cave, Outspoken hedge fund boss who made the journey from city to city, The Daily Telegraph, 26 May 2013
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- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 6,3 6,4 Andrew E. Law, CNBC
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 Sam Jones, Quiet Caxton chief refuses to shout about $1bn gain, Financial Times, 20 October 2013
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Elizabeth Rigby, Gavin Jackson, George Parker, 'Tories double number of big City donors in five years: Miliband attacks 'party of Mayfair hedge funds and Monaco tax avoiders',' Financial Times, 5 February 2015, p. 1, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/11306cd0-ac94-11e4-beeb-00144feab7de.html#axzz3wTjPW2T4
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- ↑ Shelina Begum, Businessman Andrew Law and wife Zoë donate £1m to The Lowry, Manchester Evening News, 2 July 2014
- ↑ The Lowry announces largest ever private donation and achieves £5m capital funding target, The Lowry, 1 July 2014
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- ↑ Andrew Law, The Hedge Fund Formula For Philanthropy, The Huffington Post, 23 January 2014
- ↑ 20,0 20,1 Шаблон:Cite news
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