EAN: 9780241468210

BUILT ON A LIE - OWEN WALKER KARTONIERT (TB)

'This is a must read!' Vince Cable  former leader of the Liberal Democrats'Reads like a rip
roaring tale of a corporate high wire act' John McDonnell  former Shadow Chancellor 'Should be
sold with a bottle of blood-pressure pills' Edward Lucas  The Times The proud owner of a
sprawling £14m estate in the Cotswolds  boasting a stable of eventing horses  a fleet of
supercars and neighbouring the royal family  Neil Woodford was the most celebrated and
successful British investor of his generation. He spent years beating the market  betting
against the dot com bubble in the 1990s and the banks before the financial crash in 2008 
making blockbuster returns for his investors and earning himself a reputation of 'the man who
made Middle England rich'.But  in 2019  after a stream of poorly-judged investments  Woodford's
asset management company collapsed  trapping hundreds of thousands of rainy-day savers in his
flagship fund and hanging £3.6 billion in the balance. In Built on a Lie  Financial Times
reporter Owen Walker reveals the disastrous failings of Woodford  the greed at the heart of his
operation  the flaws of an industry in thrall to its star performers and the dangers of limited
regulation. With exclusive access to Woodford's inner circle  Walker will reveal the full 
jaw-dropping story of Europe's biggest investment scandal in a decade.'Vital financial
journalism with heart' Emma Barnett  broadcaster

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