Greg Coffey

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

Coffey graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University in 1995.[4]

Coffey joined Macquarie Bank in 1993 and in 1994 traded emerging-market equity derivatives at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank AG.[5] 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 £170m in 2007 after increasing by 51% the value of his emerging markets fund.[6] In April 2008 he announced his departure from GLG, effective in October, and leaving behind his $200m GLG Partners compensation package. Industry sources estimated that Coffey had been responsible for two-thirds of GLG's performance fees during his time there.[7][8] In November 2008 became co-chief investment officer of Moore Europe Capital Management, a subsidiary of Moore Capital Management. [9][10][11][12] In October 2012, at the age of 41, he announced his retirement.[13][14]

In December 2017, it was rumored that Coffey would launch a new hedge fund.[15] In February 2018, Kirkoswald Capital Partners[16] was reported to have commitments from investors of $3.5b. The size of the new fund would be capped at $2b and offices will be headquartered in London.[3]

In November 2010 Coffey bought Ardfin Estate, a 4,900-hectare (12,000-acre) sporting estate on the island of Jura in Scotland.[17] 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.[18] 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.[19] Coffey constructed an 18-hole private golf course on the estate. The work was completed in 2018 and the course opened in spring 2019.[20][21]