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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

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

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

Tony in the Footsie, and in the money

11.06.09
Former mercenary Tony Buckingham, whose exotic connections with the notorious Executive Outcomes and Sandline organisations and as a former associate of jailed Etonian Simon Mann, have in the past excited much comment, is set to become a FTSE 100 boss ... 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

The Tchenguiz sister

15.05.09
Lisa Tchenguiz has been defined by the alpha men in her life: her property developer brothers and her soon-to-be-ex-husband. Now single, she has found a new Lisa life...... 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

Awkward facts about Heathrow third runway

07.05.09
As leading business figures puncture the BA/BAA claim that a Third Runway is vital for the British economy by saying that, er, it isn’t, how does the airport operate.. ... more

Who’s up for the cup in the banking Premiership?

07.05.09
As the football season draws to a close — it must be because it’s raining at Lords, halting the First Test — and the football writers ponder their final vote for next week’s award, I think we need a team assessment of the UK banks ... 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

Mayfair’s poker ‘Don’ who gambled it all

31.03.09
He has won millions at cards but, as the Serious Fraud Office probes his £1 billion development company, has Achilleas Kallakis finally been dealt a losing hand? ... 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

The plug is pulled on hi-tech adverts firm Streetbroadcast

10.03.09
A hi-tech West End advertising billboard company backed by tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz and private-equity giant Apax has collapsed into administration... more

Crunch takes fizz out of property jamboree

03.03.09
The once-mighty Mipim international property trade fair in Cannes next week will see nearly 10,000 fewer people attending than last year as the economic crisis keeps delegates from London and around the world at home... more

Scuba-diving 'banker to the stars' who took HBOS in too deep

18.02.09
Profile: Peter Cummings' ambitious strategy made billions by riding the UK property boom, but now he is being blamed as the bank faces huge losses... more

Three ways to bring a new dawn to Oxford St

17.10.08
On Saturday, 6 December this year the annual ritual of transforming Oxford Street into a pedestrian precinct is due to be repeated. Why not experiment further?... more

Finance

08.10.08
Britain will look to the Square Mile to pull it out of the economic mire, and these are the big names who will deliver the recovery. ... more

How Branson’s Rock dream ended in tears

25.09.08
Pass the tissues. In his new book, Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson, tells, sob, how he was foiled in his ambition to buy Northern Rock, sob... more

Forget falling house prices - land is booming just like oil

26.06.08
Buy land, they're not making it any more - that was the advice of Mark Twain more than 100 years ago, and it still looks pretty sound today... more

Playing for high stakes but holding all the aces

04.04.08
Achilleas Kallakis is on his way to becoming one of London's most significant property developers, says Peter Bill.... more

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