16-05-2025
Meet the pair donating £5.2m a week to climate change
Hedge fund managers are leading the charitable giving charge in the UK, taking the podium positions in The Sunday Times Giving List.
Joint top for the first time are Suneil Setiya and Greg Skinner, worth an estimated £980 million each, who last year gave away 13.77 per cent of their wealth. The Quadrature Capital founders are notoriously private but their money speaks volumes. Last year the company, owned via the Cayman Islands, gave £4 million to the Labour Party, then in opposition, its largest single donation ever.
Yet the issue Setiya and Skinner care most about is climate change. 'We are passionate about supporting causes that address poverty, inequality and human suffering,' they say. 'Climate change compounds these challenges. This realisation led us to