Financier and member of the Rothschild banking family, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has died at the age of 87, his family has announced.
The British peer started his career in the family bank, NM Rothschild & Sons, in 1963, before going on to take control of Rothschild Investment Trust and later co-founding the then J Rothschild Assurance Group, now St James's Place, with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1980.
