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 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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