Background
Peter Hall was born in 1960 in Bangkok, Thailand. His father was a journalist and diplomat from New Zealand.
Financier founder prime minister proprietor
Peter Hall was born in 1960 in Bangkok, Thailand. His father was a journalist and diplomat from New Zealand.
He was educated at Bedales School, a boarding school in Hampshire, England. He graduated from the University of Sydney, where he received an Arts degree.
He is the Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Hunter Hall Investment Management, an investment firm. He formerly owned stakes in Prospect and Monocle, two London-based magazines. He has donated millions of dollars to animal conservation charitable causes.
As a result, he lived in Pakistan with his family when he was five years old.
He also lived in Canada, France and England. Hall started his career as a journalist for Fairfax Media.
He embarked upon a career in finance, and served as "Investment Manager at HGL Limited, Portfolio Manager and Analyst at Mercantile Mutual Holdings Limited, Industrial Analyst at Pembroke Securities Limited, Investment Analyst at New Zealand South British Insurance Limited." He credits Warren Buffett"s writings as an inspiration for his career pathological In 1993, he founded Hunter Hall Investment Management, an investment firm which focuses on "ethical investing" with just Army of the United States$1 million.
lieutenant now has from Army of the United States$1.1 billion, and employs 30 people.
Hall serves as its Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, and owns 47% of the firm. In 2008, with fellow financier George Robinson, he acquired 26% of Prospect, a British magazine of political affairs, from Derek Coombs. As a result, both Hall and Robinson had a controlling stake in the magazine.
Moreover, Hall was a founding shareholder of Monocle, a global affairs and lifestyle magazine, but has since sold his stake.
In 2005 Hall, along with James Gurnsey and Cameron McClure, founded Flat White café in Berwick Street, Soho, which was the first of the third wave independent cafes to introduce Antipodean-style coffee, and especially the eponymous Flat White, to London and Europe. He also owns Milk Bar in Bateman Street, Soho.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Rhino Foundation. He is also a Patron of the Asian Rhino Project.
He has made charitable contributions in excess of Army of the United States$8 million to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Greenpeace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, the Wild Camel Protection Society, Save International, Voiceless, the Great Ape Project and the Free the Bears Fund.
He has been named a "Business Visionary" by Compassion in World Farming, a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation based in England. Moreover, he does not eat meat on Mondays for ethical reasons. He served on the Council of the Sydney Film Festival and the Bedales Grants Trust Fund, which benefits his alma mater, Bedales School.
He is a patron of CleanupUK, a non-profit organization which encourages volunteers to pick up litter in England whose president is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
He is a donor to the Conservative Party, having donated in excess of £100,000 from 2010 to 2015, and £500,000 prior to the 2010 election. However, shortly after making the comments, Hall apologised.
In April 2015, he criticised Prime Minister David Cameron"s leadership and called for Boris Johnson to become the next leader of the party, if David Cameron lost the election.
