👔 Anthony Joshua's Business Empire: Part 2

Last week we began a two-part series exploring the business empire of Anthony Joshua. Week 1 was focused on his earnings.

Week 2 will focus on his investments.

In the short-term, the loss to Dubois this weekend will not be a derailment on his empire. The fight was marketed very well and I’m sure will bring home a LOT of PPV’s and a healthy gate at Wembley.

Long-term however, the brand of AJ took a dent and the prospect of a mouth-watering Undisputed fight with Tyson Fury seems a little further away now than it did previously.

Alas, today we break down how the man invests his money.

As a recap from last weeks edition, this table reflects how much revenue was posted in AJ’s company accounts in the last five company account filings:

The man makes a lot of money!

Today, we are going to focus on his investments. There are four asset classes we can speak to when it comes to Anthony Joshua:

1. Real Estate

2. Startup Investments

3. Private Equity

4. DAZN

The first and most notable asset that AJ invests in is property. His real estate portfolio spans retail homes, commercial buildings and shopping malls. Its quite an impressive haul.

AJ has two homes in North London worth an estimated £2m each.

258 investments the investment vehicle in which he buys properties through have a website and an Instagram page where they also list others.

He owns two buildings in Central London. The first is 73 New Bond Street. A nice building just off London’s famous Oxford Street.

The second is 12-16 Dering Street. Another unit not too far from London’s very affluent Mayfair. These were previously owned by Aviva and were both bought by AJ under the 258 Investments company in 2023.

The CBRE website is fairly revealing. Here it implies both were bought at the same time for £25m. CBRE gives a rental amount of £789,540 a year which is a healthy sum.

The whopper here is AJ’s massive unit in Hertfordshire. The Sun reported early last year that AJ spent a massive £30m on Breakspear Park, the old BP Headquarters in Hemel Hempstead. It’s a massive plot of land sitting on 301,000 sq ft.

On the 258 Investments Instagram page, there is a post with a caption informing us that they are both the Occupier and Owner of this monstrous unit.

What a haul. Some sizeable, appreciating, cash yielding units from the Champ. A real estate empire that seems to be growing and growing.

A bit like his startup empire.

2. Startups

A few years ago. Manchester based company Pulseroll announced that AJ had become an investor. The amount he invested was never revealed, but AJ was labelled as a strategic partner.

Similarly, Anthony Joshua alongside alot of other famous celebrities were announced as investors in Nala’s Baby. The successful skincare branded started by Krept.

Krept raised £3m in their Series A which AJ contributed to alongside others such as Jourdan Dunn and Jadon Sancho.

In a recent lyric Krept said the business was valued at £20m after one of the founders sold 1% of the business for £200,000.

Other startup ventures aren’t public by AJ. Instead, there is Private Equity exposure.

3. Private Equity

Earlier this year Otro Capital announced that they had invested €200m in the Alpine F1 team.

In a press release they revealed a slew of A-LIst investors who had contributed to the raise including Rory McIlroy, Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Trent AA and… Anthony Joshua.

Late in 2023 both Rory and AJ were attendees at the US Grand Prix in Texas speaking on their Alpine investments.

Since Liberty Media took over F1 from Bernie Ecclestone EVERY F1 team has been valued at more than $1bn.

AJ is in on the action!

4. DAZN

Finally, as part of his long-standing relationship with Eddie Hearn, Anthony Joshua now fights on DAZN, the streaming service owned by one of the UK’s richest men Len Blavatnik.

As part of the deal, AJ reportedly received an undisclosed equity slice in the platform which has grown substantially in the last decade.

AJ is a young man and his list of investments is rather impressive.

The Sunday Times Rich List listed AJ’s net worth at £175m in the most recent edition of the Rich List.

I am no IFA but I have that estimation a little conservative.

The crazy thing is, he is a young man with a LOT of life left.

I wouldnt put him past him becoming a billionare before all is said-and-done.

See you next week.