Stephen Lansdown

Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder

Stephen Lansdown is the co-founder of UK financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown, and is an English-born Guernsey billionaire. Lansdown and Peter Hargreaves started Hargreaves Lansdown from a bedroom in 1981. 

He is also a founder of Bristol Sport and majority shareholder of Bristol Rugby, Bristol Flyers basketball club, and Bristol City Football Club. In April 2009, he sold 4.7% of Hargreaves Lansdown for £47.2m, which he put towards building Bristol City's new football stadium. In May 2017, his net worth was reported to be in the region of £1.48bn.

More recently, Lansdown has backed a sustainable private equity fund investing in technology and manufacturing businesses.

Lansdown was appointed a CBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to business and the community in Bristol.

People moves

Editor's letter: Changing of the guard

Who are leaders of tomorrow?

22 November 2021 • 2 min read

Investment

Ravenscroft names non-exec chair as Stephen Lansdown retires from board

Dominic Jones appointed

31 March 2021 • 2 min read

Platforms

HL shares rise as Peel Hunt upgrades stock to 'buy'

Stock has been 'oversold'

22 October 2020 • 1 min read

Wealth Management

Stephen Lansdown cuts HL stake to 7% - reports

Offloads £160m stake

01 May 2020 • 1 min read

Asset Managers

Ravenscroft 'scales back' from UK retail market

Harries exits

12 July 2019 • 1 min read

Funds

HL's Dampier and Gardhouse cashed in shares weeks before Woodford crisis

£6.1m share sale

10 June 2019 • 2 min read

Industry

Rich List: Schroder family and Peter Hargreaves fall down rankings

Crispin Odey, Terry Smith, Andy Bell fare well

13 May 2019 • 2 min read

Investment

Lansdown-backed Ravenscroft acquires RLAM CI

Purchased for undisclosed sum

21 September 2018 • 1 min read

UK

Lansdown-backed Ravenscroft takes 25% stake in tech firm

'Opportunities to refer each other'

19 July 2018 • 1 min read

Investment

Rich List: Peter Hargreaves jumps into the top 50 while Odey's wealth falls £25m

42nd on The Sunday Times Rich List

13 May 2018 • 2 min read