History
The company was founded in 1961 on the initiative of Lord Jacob Rothschild founded and named "Rothschild Investment Trust". It served the English branch of the family Rothschild for investments outside their bank N M Rothschild & Sons. In 1980 there was a conflict between Lord Jacob Rothschild and Evelyn de Rothschild, then the head of N M Rothschild & Sons. Because the investment way of Lord Jacob Rothschild was too risky, Evelyn de Rothschild withdrew the money invested in the banking house of Rothschild Investment Trust and forbade the company to continue using the name Rothschild. Lord Jacob Rothschild pulled his hand back from N M Rothschild & Sons and received compensation as the sole control of the Rothschild Investment Trust, which he renamed "RIT Ltd." In 1988, Lord Jacob Rothschild transformed RIT Ltd. into a publicly traded investment trust with the name "RIT Capital Partners plc."
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