In this success post, we are going to share the story of Michael Platt, an English Hedge Fund Manager, the co-founder, CEO, and principal of BlueCrest Capital Management, Europe third-largest hedge fund firm.
Platt co-founded the firm in 2000. BlueCrest is a systematic hedge fund, based out of London.
Michael Platt Early life
Platt was born in Preston, England. Following in the footsteps of his father – a professor at Manchester University – Platt studied Civil Engineering at Imperial College London. After a year, he grew bored and switched to Economics and Mathematics at the London School of Economics, graduating in the year 1992.
Michael Platt Early career
Platt started in the city when his grandmother gave him some shares to invest in, and he discovered a talent. He joined the JP Morgan in 1991 as an MD responsible for relative value trading. Platt assumed responsibility for developing JP Morgan swaps and options trading business in April 1992 and, in April 1996, became the head of trading for all swaps products relating to the 11 founder nations of the single European currency. In 2000, Platt co-founded BlueCrest Capital Management LLP, with Williams Reeves.
Michael Platt Personal life
Platt is married and lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a notable art collector having built a contemporary art collection not by shopping for pictures, but by commissioning them from well-known artists. He has a private showroom in the crypt of a deconsecrated church at One Marylebone, which displays a selection of art by, among others, taxidermist Polly Morgan, the Turner Prize-winning sculptor and installation artist Keith Tyson and Reece Jones.
In the year 2013, Platt purchased an apartment on Central Park South, New York, for $14 million.
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