Editing Rothschild family (section)

=== RIT Capital Partners ===
In 1980, [[Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild]] resigned from N M Rothschild & Sons and took independent control of Rothschild Investment Trust (now [[RIT Capital Partners]], a British investment trust), which has reported assets of $3.4&nbsp;billion in 2008.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://miranda.hemscott.com/servlet/HsPublic?context=ir.access.jsp&ir_client_id=1874&ir_option=DIRECTORS
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 |archive-date=25 August 2004 |title=RIT Capital Partners
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 |date=28 October 2003 |access-date=8 July 2010 }}</ref> It is listed on [[London Stock Exchange]]. Lord Rothschild is also one of the major investors behind BullionVault, a gold trading platform.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7842235/Lord-Rothschild-fund-joins-World-Gold-Council-to-put-12.5m-into-BullionVault.html Lord Rothschild fund joins World Gold Council to put £12.5m into BullionVault] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114190710/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7842235/Lord-Rothschild-fund-joins-World-Gold-Council-to-put-12.5m-into-BullionVault.html |date=14 November 2017 }} ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), Garry White, 20 June 2010</ref>

In 2010 RIT Capital Partners stored a significant proportion of its assets in the form of [[gold|physical gold]]. Other assets included oil and energy-related investments.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101124175611/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-17/rit-capital-increases-gold-investments-as-net-asset-value-rises.html Rothschild's RIT Capital Boosts Gold Investments as Net Asset Value Climbs] Bloomberg, 17 November 2010</ref>

In 2012, RIT Capital Partners announced it was to buy a 37 per cent stake in a [[Rockefeller family]] wealth advisory and asset management group.<ref>[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/efe93494-a9a3-11e1-a6a7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1wItLOFQv Rockefellers and Rothschilds unite] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531104306/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/efe93494-a9a3-11e1-a6a7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1wItLOFQv |date=31 May 2012 }} ''Financial Times'' (London), Daniel Schäfer, 29 May 2012</ref> Commenting on the deal, [[David Rockefeller]], a former [[patriarch]] of the [[Rockefeller family]], said: "The connection between our two families remains very strong."<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/transatlantic-alliance-between-rothschilds-and-rockefellers-for-wealth-management-7805035.html Transatlantic alliance between Rothschilds and Rockefellers for wealth management] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412022430/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/transatlantic-alliance-between-rothschilds-and-rockefellers-for-wealth-management-7805035.html |date=12 April 2020 }}
Tom Bawden, Thursday 31 May 2012, ''The Independent'' (London)</ref>