Richest banker Jenkins has fortune of £275 million
ROGER Jenkins has been named as Britain’s richest banker with a fortune worth an estimated £275 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
The former Barclays banker, 57, earned more than £120 million during his stint at the British bank from 2004 to 2007. He now works for Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual, in which he holds a stake worth £125 million.
At 299th on the Rich List, Jenkins is the highest placed individual still working in banking whose fortune is not family based. Michael Sherwood, the co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs’ international operations, is the second richest banker (559th) on the list with an estimated fortune of £140 million.
Sherwood pocketed a substantial sum when Wall Street’s premier investment bank listed in 1999. This year the 47-year-old received a bonus of £9.8 million and he holds stock worth £25 million in Goldman Sachs.
This year the 47-year-old received a bonus of £9.8 million and he holds stock worth £25 million in Goldman Sachs
Nat Rothschild, scion of the banking dynasty, is 126th on the rich list with an estimated fortune of £700 million, down £300 million on last year.
Aside from his stake in resources group Bumi, Rothschild has a £216 million stake in the oil company Genel Energy, an east European property firm and a French vineyard.
Lord Rothschild, his father and City legend, comes in at 197 on the list, with a fortune of £470 million. He chairs the £1.9 billion RIT Capital investment trust.