Top fund manager Neil Woodford, hedge fund Lansdowne Partners and the Duke of Westminster back a £140 million rights issue by a firm exploiting inventions and discoveries made in British universities... more
Tony Blair is to earn a six-figure sum from top Mayfair hedge fund Lansdowne Partners giving its executives talks on his “geopolitical insights”.... more
The roots of the financial crisis lie not in the greed and excess of a handful of the world’s bankers, nor in their reward systems or penchant for innovation... more
After two years in which the market value of the banking sector as measured by the FTSE 100 index has gone from £325 billion to £35 billion, it is surprising how rarely people ask what the institutional shareholders were doing when the bank managements were setting off down the path to destruction... more
Partners at a hedge fund which made about £12 million in just days betting on a fall in the Barclays share price have donated more than £300,000 to the Conservatives... more
Short selling of Britain’s troubled bank shares has been practically non-existent in recent days despite the practice being demonised by politicians... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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