Long Before British Vote, Financiers Weigh In
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Stanley Fink has donated $1.3 million since the 2010 election, records show. CreditRex Features
LONDON — No political party in Europe has done more for hedge funds and bankers in recent years than the British Conservatives.
And the party has been well rewarded for it.
Hedge fund managers have been writing eye-popping checks to the Conservative Party before the British election on Thursday. And with no campaign finance limits for party donations, there is little to hold them back.
More than $2.3 million has come since last year from Michael Hintze, an Australian billionaire who lives in London, where he founded the hedge fund CQS. Michael Farmer, another hedge fund manager, has donated roughly $2.2 million over the same reporting period, and far more in the last decade. Stanley Fink, who once ran the Man Group and has been party treasurer, has donated $1.3 million since the 2010 election, records show…
Long Before British Vote, Financiers Weigh In
