Greg Coffey

Coffey attended St Patrick's College, Strathfield, matriculating in 1988.

Coffey graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University in 1995.^[3]

Coffey joined Macquarie Bank in 1993 and in 1994 traded emerging-market equity derivatives at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank AG.^[4] Coffey was hired by Blueborder Partners, a George Soros related hedge fund and was then hired by Bank Austria to oversee global equity proprietary trading.

Coffey was then a trader at GLG Partners (GLG), and is estimated to have earned £170 million in 2007 after increasing by 51% the value of his emerging markets fund.^[5] In April 2008 he announced his departure from GLG, effective in October, and leaving behind his A$200 million GLG Partners compensation package. Industry sources estimated that Coffey had been responsible for two-thirds of GLG's performance fees during his time there.^[6][7] In November 2008 became co-chief investment officer of Moore Europe Capital Management, a subsidiary of Moore Capital Management.^{[8][9][10][11]} In October 2012, at the age of 41, he announced his retirement.^[12][13]

In December 2017, it was rumored that Coffey would launch a new hedge fund.^[14] In February 2018, Kirkoswald Capital Partners^[15] was reported to have commitments from investors of A$3.5 billion. The size of the new fund would be capped at A$2 billion and offices will be headquartered in London.^[2]

In October 2024, Coffey alongside Stanley Druckenmiller, invested in an AI company Reflexivity in their most recent round to raise 30 million dollars.^[16]

Coffey is married to Ania Brzezinski, and they reside in the Sydney suburb of Balmoral. They also own a ski chalet in Switzerland, a house in London's Chelsea,^[17] and, in 2022, acquired a 18-hectare (45-acre) estate in Southampton, New York for US$105 million;^[18] previously owned by Anne McDonnell, the first wife of Henry Ford II.^[19] The couple has three children.^[20]

In November 2010, Coffey bought Ardfin Estate, a 4,900-hectare (12,000-acre) sporting estate on the island of Jura in Scotland.^[21] The purchase attracted controversy and concern over Coffey's decision to close the estate's public gardens, whose 2,500 visitors a year formed a significant source of income for Jura.^[22] In 2011, a spokesperson for Coffey said that his "full intention" was to re-open the gardens during 2012, but the gardens have remained closed.^[23] Coffey constructed an 18-hole private golf course on the estate. The work was completed in 2018 and the course opened in spring 2019.^[24][25]

Net worth

In 2013, Coffey was listed on the Sunday Times Rich List with an assessed net worth of £260 million.^[26] As of May 2025^[update], the Financial Review assessed Coffey's net worth as A$1.24 billion on the 2025 Rich List.^[27]

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Year	Financial Review Rich List		Forbes Australia's 50 Richest
	Rank	Net worth (A$)	Rank	Net worth (US$)
2008[28][note a]		$300 million
2009
2010[29]		$335 million
2011
2012[30][note a]		$665 million
2013[26]
2014
2015
2016
2017[31][32]		$482 million
2018[33]	177	$486 million
2019[34]	192	$491 million
2020[35]	164	$655 million
2021[36]	170	$668 million
2022	154	$862 million
2023[37]	144	$989 million
2024[38]		$1.10 billion
2025[27]	133	$1.24 billion

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• ^a : Net worth drawn from the BRW Young Rich List