What is Stephen Lansdown's Net Worth?

Stephen Lansdown is an English businessman who has a net worth of $2.2 billion. As of March 2013, Stephen Lansdown is said to be one of the world's richest people as one of the major shareholders and co-founder of the UK's financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown. It was back in 1981, when he and fellow billionaire Peter Hargreaves set up the company literally out of a bedroom in Bristol.

Some twenty years later their trading business became reportedly worth around £280 million and as the company's stock price has hiked up over the last year a 20% of the firm is now worth around $1.3 billion. What's more, Landsown is also the majority owner of soccer team Bristol City FC and holds a share in Bristol Rugby. Married with two children, he recently moved to island country of Guernsey with his family, who often spend time in their holiday home in the South of France.