Michael Platt, the British co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, has made the top 10 of The Sunday Times’ latest ranking of the UK’s 350 wealthiest individuals.
Platt, whose stock-picking career was launched on the back of a £500 gift from his grandmother when he turned 14, has a fortune of £11.5bn. This is up £1.5bn from a year earlier as BlueCrest profited from rising interest rates.