Richard Fagan

Richard Fagan (born April 24, 1947) is an American songwriter and musician. He has had six top ten singles and 18 charted singles on the Billboard Country charts. Fagan's songs have been recorded by Neil Diamond, George Strait, John Michael Montgomery, Clay Walker, Ricochet, Hank Williams, Jr., George Jones, Shania Twain, Patty Loveless, Collin Raye, Shenandoah, The Crickets, Jason & the Scorchers, The Blues Brothers Band and many others.

In 1979 his song "The Good Lord Loves You" was recorded by Neil Diamond and released on the September Morn album. The song charted in the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 67 in April 1980. Fagan accomplished nine Billboard Country chart singles in the 1990s including two of John Michael Montgomery's number one singles: Be My Baby Tonight and Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident). Fagan had three additional songs on the Billboard Country charts in the 2000s, including the song "Why Can't We All Just Get a Long Neck?" that appears on the Hank Williams, Jr. album, I'm One of You.

Richard Fagan (businessman)

Richard Fagan (born 1971/1972) is a British businessman who created the Kijani Commodity Fund in 2011 and is captain of the Irish international polo team.

Early life

Richard Fagan was born in Britain, around 1972. He worked for a family motor repair chain before moving to Gibraltar around 2007 where he began a career in investment funds.

Kijani Commodity Fund

In 2011, Fagan started the Kijani Commodity Fund, "kijani" meaning green in Swahili. Early on, Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi, who was convicted of corruption in an unconnected matter in 2003, lent US$5 million to the fund which was returned in 2012. The fund was marketed to savers in the Middle East and Asia and by 2015 it had grown to around US$130 million according to the fund's own figures. The actual investments were made by Gibraltar incorporated Kijani Resources Ltd., of which Fagan is a major shareholder, with money lent to it by the Kijani Commodity Fund, the only asset of the fund being that loan. Assets of Kijani Resources included such things as forestry rights in Suriname and a West African oil-services company.