Built on a Lie
The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England's Money
(Sprache: Englisch)
'This is a must read!' Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
'Reads like a rip roaring tale of a corporate high wire act' John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor
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'Reads like a rip roaring tale of a corporate high wire act' John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor
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'This is a must read!' Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats'Reads like a rip roaring tale of a corporate high wire act' John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor
'Should be sold with a bottle of blood-pressure pills' Edward Lucas, The Times
The proud owner of a sprawling £14m estate in the Cotswolds, boasting a stable of eventing horses, a fleet of supercars and neighbouring the royal family, Neil Woodford was the most celebrated and successful British investor of his generation.
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 £3.6 billion in the balance.
In Built on a Lie, Financial Times reporter 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. With exclusive access to Woodford's inner circle, Walker will reveal the full, jaw-dropping story of Europe's biggest investment scandal in a decade.
'Vital financial journalism with heart' Emma Barnett, broadcaster
Autoren-Porträt von Owen Walker
Owen Walker is an award-winning business journalist, covering European banks for the Financial Times. He was previously asset management correspondent at the newspaper and his reporting on Neil Woodford's downfall led to the FT winning business and finance team of the year at the 2019 Society of Editors' Press Awards. His first book, Barbarians in the Boardroom, covered activist investors and was published in 2016.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Owen Walker
- 2023, 256 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0241468213
- ISBN-13: 9780241468210
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.04.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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An outstanding, readable, well researched account of the collapse of Woodford Investment Management ...'Built on a lie' wasn't a journalist's sound-bite but the judgement of Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, who saw clearly that Woodford was a symptom of a dangerously unstable investment model. When a rogue investor smashes down a rotten door causing so much damage, give some credit to the rotten door. This is a must read Vince Cable former leader of the Liberal Democrats and Secretary of State for Business
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