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PLATT - THE TRADER WHO FIRED HIS OWN CLIENTS
In 2015, Michael Platt returned $8 billion to investors and shut Blue Crest Capital to the public — then reportedly made over 50% per year.
Born in Preston in 1968, Platt built BlueCrest from zero into a $35 billion hedge fund giant after leaving JP Morgan with co-founder William Reeves in 2000.
His fund returned 54% during the 2008 financial crisis while competitors collapsed. By 2025, his net worth reached $18.8 billion — built almost entirely after he stopped managing other people's money.
🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#MichaelPlatt #BlueCrest #HedgeFund #GlobalMacro #Finance #WallStreet #Trading #HedgeFundManager
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By Sleepy Stock MarketIn 2015, Michael Platt returned $8 billion to investors and shut Blue Crest Capital to the public — then reportedly made over 50% per year.
Born in Preston in 1968, Platt built BlueCrest from zero into a $35 billion hedge fund giant after leaving JP Morgan with co-founder William Reeves in 2000.
His fund returned 54% during the 2008 financial crisis while competitors collapsed. By 2025, his net worth reached $18.8 billion — built almost entirely after he stopped managing other people's money.
🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#MichaelPlatt #BlueCrest #HedgeFund #GlobalMacro #Finance #WallStreet #Trading #HedgeFundManager