Chris Rokos

According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Rokos is worth £775 million.

The Oxford-Rokos Graduate Scholarship is 60% funded by Rokos, and 40% by Oxford University, and covers the entire cost of living and fees for the full duration of a student's course. It is offered to applicants who have "demonstrated excellent academic ability", who will "contribute to the University’s ground-breaking research", and who are "expected to go on to contribute to the world as leaders in their field".

Rokos also supports the Rokos Career Development Fellowship in Economics or Economic History at Pembroke College. It is awarded with preference to candidates whose research area matches those of the Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, Dr Brian A’Hearn, including research on cities and regions, institutions, political economy, technology, labour markets, human capital, and living standards in Europe.

Rokos is known to have an interest in art, especially ‘Old Masters'. In 2010, the Financial Times reported that Rokos was  understood to be the saviour of Domenichino's great baroque painting of "St John the Evangelist" (1620s). The painting sold at Christie's in December 2010 to a US buyer but its export was deferred.  At that point a new buyer – believed to be Rokos – came forward to buy the painting and lend it to the National Gallery.  Rokos was amongst major donors who in 2012 contributed to the National Gallery's successful Appeal to save Titians's Diana and Actaeon for the nation.

The performance of Rokos Capital Management in 2016 was followed by two years of indifference, reflecting a difficult trading period for macro hedge funds. In 2017–2018, Rokos Capital Management's profits fell by 85% to £22.9 million. Rokos continued to complete the build-out of the firm in readiness for the return of more favourable market conditions.

The high-profile case was settled out of court in January 2015, clearing the way for Rokos to start his own firm in one of the "most anticipated hedge-fund launches of recent years", according to the Wall Street Journal. With investors reportedly forbidden from discussing the launch, Reuters reported that much of the money initially invested in the fund would be provided by Rokos himself, with a primary focus on foreign exchange, fixed income and equity index products in developed markets and relatively liquid emerging markets.

Rokos Capital Management began trading in the Autumn of 2015, gaining approximately 20 per cent in its first calendar year (2016). According to the Financial Times, Rokos Capital Management was helped by bets on market moves around Donald Trump's election victory.

Rokos was one of a number of hedge fund managers who made donations to Britain's Conservative Party in the run-up to the 2015 general election, contributing £1.9 million in total. Since 2015, Rokos has been an occasional donor only to the Party.

In 2012, Rokos retired from Brevan Howard, setting up a family office in London's Mayfair to manage his own wealth. But in the summer of 2014, wishing to return to trading, he filed a suit in the Royal Court of Jersey against Brevan Howard contesting the five-year noncompete restrictions which would have prevented him from managing outside capital until at least 2018.

Rokos became widely known as the firm's "star trader" and one of the world's most influential government-bond traders, with positions so vast Wall Street trading desks reportedly sought to stay abreast of his views on the market, as they could move long-standing relationships between prices. Rokos generated $4 billion in profits whilst at Brevan Howard, trading securities tied to interest rates for the firm's flagship Master Fund, including $1.11 billion in 2007, equivalent to 27% of the fund's total profits that year, as well as $549 million in 2008 and $933 million in 2009. His best year for the Brevan Howard Master Fund came in 2011, when he made $1.27 billion for the fund, according to documents filed in his subsequent court case. The same documents also revealed that Rokos personally earned about $900 million during his 10 years at Brevan, a figure dwarfing previous estimates.

In early 2002, Alan Howard and Rokos both resigned, together with three other directors at Credit Suisse – Jean Philippe Blochet, James Vernon and Trifon Natsis. Together, they founded an asset management business which they named Brevan Howard, and which quickly became one of Europe's most successful hedge funds.

After leaving university, Rokos joined UBS in London. Within a year, he was asked to join Goldman Sachs, working there for three years, first in derivative structuring, then swap market making and eventually proprietary trading.  In January 1998, Rokos was recruited by Alan Howard to join Credit Suisse as a proprietary trader.

Rokos was identified by his UK maintained (state) primary school as a pupil with academic potential, especially in maths and science. He was entered for a scholarship at leading public school, Eton College. Rokos attended Eton for five years before going on to study mathematics at Pembroke College, Oxford University, graduating in 1992 with a first class honours degree. He holds an MA from Oxford University and is a Foundation Fellow of Pembroke College.

Christopher Charles Rokos (born 21 September 1970) is a British hedge fund manager. He is the founder of macro hedge fund Rokos Capital Management and a former founding partner of Brevan Howard Asset Management.