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Nicola Horlick

Nicola Horlick is a well known, successful investment fund manager whose company, Bramdean Alternatives Limited is based in Guernsey and trades in the London Stock Exchange. Horlick grew up in Wirral in Merseyside, North West England. As a teenager she attended Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Birkenhead High School. Starting in 1979 she attended Balliol College, Oxford to study Law, earning a second class degree in 1982, and leaving knowing that she did not want to pursue a career in the field of Law. In 1997, Horlick set up SG Asset Management, and in 2005 set up Bramdean Asset Management. In December 2008, Bramdean Asset Management had invested about 9% of the company’s assets with investor fraudster Bernard Madoff. The money was lost, and shares in Bramdean Asset Management lost a third of their pre-Madoff scandal value.

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Horlick ends Tchenguiz war with £5m fund sale to Aberdeen

19.11.09
Nicola Horlick, the one-time City superwoman, has sold the management contract on her only stock market-quoted fund to rival fund manager Aberdeen Asset Managers... more

Women miss health check-ups because they fear losing job

16.09.09
Career women are risking cancer and infertility by delaying vital health checks because they are afraid of being sacked, experts warned... more

Horlick’s Bramdean off 12%, after missing rising market

19.08.09
Nicola Horlick looks to have missed out on rising share prices and hedge fund values between April and June, according to the latest update from her only quoted vehicle Bramdean Alternatives... more

How to diagnose dysrationality

17.08.09
Last week Alan Duncan’s loose remarks showed how easy it is to fool supposedly clever people. And he certainly won’t be the last... more

Kaupthing’s loan book is tale of woe

10.08.09
The leaked loan book of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing reads like a who’s who of some of the credit crunch’s biggest losers ... more

'Superwoman' fund spirals down in its worst-ever month

22.06.09
Bramdean Alternatives, the listed fund managed by City superwoman Nicola Horlick, had its worst-ever month in May when its net asset value plunged by 7.7 per cent... more

Tchenguiz seizes Horlick's fund with view to liquidation

18.06.09
Nicola Horlick's future as fund manager to the quoted Bramdean Alternatives was up in the air after property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz succeeded in his bid to remove the original board of the investment fund... more

A leaner and meaner BT: wired up to stay in touch

18.06.09
With Digital Britain, the Government aims to ensure everyone has access to high-speed broadband. And when it comes to delivery, BT remains very much at the heart of all the plans... more

Tchenguiz won't halt crunch Bramdean meet

16.06.09
Vincent Tchenguiz, the largest shareholder in Nicola Horlick's only quoted investment fund, has rejected calls for him to cancel Thursday's shareholder meeting... more

Ronson creates a stir doing porridge

10.06.09
In Gerald Ronson’s new book, Leading from the Front, the veteran Heron boss recalls his time at Ford Open Prison, when he acted as kitchen porter ... more

Horlick faces fresh blow on Bramdean

09.06.09
Nicola Horlick, one-time City Superwoman, has been forced to reveal that she is the mystery bidder for her only quoted investment fund, Bramdean Alternatives ... more

Superwoman row claims first victim

11.05.09
The row between superwoman Nicola Horlick and tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz has claimed its first victim ... more

It’s spooks v briefs in Park Lane as tycoon battles with superwoman

06.05.09
Interview: Vincent Tchenguiz has lost £19m so far on his investment in a fund run by Nicola Horlick. Now he faces a legal fight over his plan to stop the rot ... more

Tchenguiz denies financial crisis as Horlick row builds

05.05.09
The growing row between property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz and Superwoman fund manager Nicola Horlick escalated as her only listed fund complained to the City watchdog... more

More strife for Horlick as Tchenguiz starts revolt

01.05.09
City superwoman Nicola Horlick was in further trouble after property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz demanded the entire board of her only quoted investment fund, Bramdean Alternatives, be removed... more

Horlick’s ailing fund is targeted by a suitor

30.04.09
City superwoman Nicola Horlick’s flagship-quoted investment fund Bramdean Alternatives has received a takeover approach from an unnamed bidder... more

Geithner bets $1 trillion on 'uninvestable' banks

24.03.09
In almost any context, $1 trillion is a fabulous amount of money. When it comes to the latest American banking bailout, it barely scratches the surface, which shows the size of the mess in which that industry remains engulfed.... more

Madoff's London operations to be probed by SFO

08.01.09
Scandal: The Serious Fraud Office have launched an investigation into the London operations of alleged fraudster Bernard Madoff... more

Credit crunch quiz

29.12.08
It was the year the economic bubble finally burst, but can you remember the financial events that made the headlines in 2008? Nick Curtis asks the questions... more

Who's in and who's out

22.12.08
Our annual magazine The 1,000: London’s Most Influential chronicles London’s power-brokers and agenda-setters. However, in the capital influence can shift quickly. Gideon Spanier looks at who’s in and who’s out.... more

Bigger story behind a small deal

22.12.08
The sale last week of Société Générale's UK-based asset management division to the listed hedge fund group GLG is a story of our times... more

Lawyers target funds in bid to get back Madoff scam billions

19.12.08
Scandal: Nicola Horlick's Bramdean, Arkie Busson's EIM and Man Group have been named as potential targets of legal action in the Bernie Madoff $50 billion Ponzi scandal... more

I'm relishing the upside to the downturn - you can too

16.12.08
Warren Buffett, America's most successful investor, is a man of clear vision. I know this because I once got hopelessly lost at Bill Gates's house looking for the loo and bumped into Mr Buffett, who pointed me in the right direction... more

Hedge funds and their failings

16.12.08
THE SCALE of the fraud carried out by Bernard Madoff, affecting RBS, HSBC, several UK pension funds and well-known names such as Arki Busson and Nicola Horlick, is unprecedented - at least according to the perpetrator himself. ... more

Singling me out over loss is sexist says Horlick

15.12.08
Nicola Horlick came out fighting after a company she jointly runs lost millions in a US fraud... more

Madoff's $50bn scam may be the first of many

15.12.08
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British banks lose £1billion in Wall Street fraud

15.12.08
British banks and investors have lost billions in the world's biggest fraud, it has been revealed... more

Investors warned not to buy shares for up to three years

02.07.08
City "superwoman" Nicola Horlick has warned investors to avoid the stock market for the next two to three years because of the credit crunch... more

Caught napping, Rose faces tough questions

02.07.08
Marks and Spencer's profit warning is the one the stock market has been waiting for - and dreading... more

Mothers aren't on Superwoman's planet

15.04.08
Superwoman Nicola Horlick gave an interview to this paper yesterday and lived up to her name. She has built up her own asset management company but it's her powers of organising her family that are truly awesome.... more

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  • Horlick has been drawn into public admiration for her efforts and ability to balance her high-stress, long-hours financial career, with the raising of five children.
  • She has been married twice, first to Timothy Horlick in 1984 (whom she divorced), and currently to Martin Baker in 2006
  • While at school, Horlick earned nine O-Levels, four A-Levels and an S-Level (the no longer used Scholarship Level)
  • Upon leaving university, Horlick first worked in an animal feed business belonging to her father, before working at S.G. Warburg & Co in 1983, and then moving to Morgan Grenfell Asset management in 1991
  • Of the five hundred students at Balliol College at Oxford university, Horlick was one of only thirty women among four hundred and seventy men – interestingly, this mirrors her younger life, when she was one of only three girls with 300 boys at her prep school
  • Horlick met her current husband Martin Baker when she was interviewed by him for the Sunday Telegraph in 2005

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