Ian Gerald Patrick Wace (born January 1963) is a British financier who co-founded Marshall Wace Asset Management, a London-based hedge fund with Paul Marshall in 1997.[1] He and Marshall, along with another hedge fund manager Arpad Busson, co-founded a children's non-profit, Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) in 2001.
Early life
Ian Gerald Patrick Wace was born in January 1963.[2] His brother Charles Wace is CEO of global television production company Twofour Group. He does not have a college degree; Institutional Investor called him "perhaps the only person without a college degree to ever qualify for the Rich List".[3]