Built on a lie : the rise and fall of Neil Woodford and the fate of Middle England's money
Walker, Owen2021
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The proud owner of a sprawling £14m estate in the Cotswolds, boasting a stable of eventing horses and neighbouring the royal family, Neil Woodford was a celebrated and successful British investor. He spent years beating the market; betting against the dot com bubble in the 1990s and the banks before the financial crash in 2008, making blockbuster returns for his investors and earning himself a reputation of 'the man who made Middle England rich'. But, in 2019, after a stream of poorly-judged investments, Woodford's asset management company collapsed, trapping hundreds of thousands of rainy-day savers in his flagship fund and hanging £3.6bn in the balance. In this book, Owen Walker reveals the disastrous failings of Woodford, the greed at the heart of his operation, the flaws of an industry in thrall to its star performers and the dangers of limited regulation.
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Author:
Walker, Owen, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Business, 2021.
Collation:
208 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780241468197 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
332.6092332.609332.609 WALK332.6092 WAL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2281423
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