Neil Woodford was the fund manager who seemed to have it all. Hailed as the genius who “made Middle England rich”, he ran one of the UK’s best performing investment funds for decades. And then in a few hubristic years, after sticking his own name above the door, he raised an insane amount of cash, made some risky bets and lost the lot. Neil and Jonathan talk to David Ricketts, author of a book on Woodford, about his fall, the reasons for it, and what we’ve learned.
In recent years, companies have been deserting the UK stock market as if it were a sinking ship. But what brought on this sudden aversion?
Lucy speaks to body language expert, Judi James, about Boris’s body language at the Privileges Committee and what she would have advised him (and Harriet Harman) to do differently.Â
Neil, Jonathan and Izabella Kaminska of The Blind Spot apply JK Galbraith’s concept of “the “Bezzle” to Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse.
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