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  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Built on a Lie — Neil Woodford’s fall from star stockpicker

    Owen Walker’s salutary tale about Britain’s best-known fund manager will invoke the ire of investors

  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    Lex
    Woodford: FCA, like Hargreaves, has a case to answer Premium

    The affair has shed an uncomfortable light on the symbiotic relationship between intermediaries and star fund managers

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    Investments
    Neil Woodford: the continuing fallout of a scandal

    The writer of a new book argues that the fallen star manager highlighted some harsh lessons for the fund industry to learn

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Jersey financial regulator attacks Neil Woodford’s relaunch plan

    Channel island vows to uphold strong protections for fund investors

  • Sunday, 28 February, 2021
    FCA first alerted to concerns over Woodford’s business in 2015

    UK regulator did not intervene until two years after issues were raised

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Neil Woodford’s rocky return

    A more remorseful man might have had a better chance of a comeback

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    City InsiderOwen Walker
    Neil Woodford: a curious time to announce a resurrection

    Fallen star stockpicker has yet to gain regulatory approval for new business he announced this week

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    City regulator under fire from UK parliament over Woodford probe

    Treasury select committee chairman demands clear timetable for investigation by FCA

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Neil Woodford’s relaunch plan prompts calls for independent inquiry

    UK regulator yet to conclude 20-month probe into disgraced stockpicker’s previous company

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Woodford Investment Management
    Woodford investors trapped in fund to end of 2021

    Equity income administrator pays out £15.5m in fees but still has £288m assets to sell

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Investors in stricken Woodford fund to share £183m capital return

    Total repaid reaches £2.45bn but there is still no timescale to sell remaining £290m of assets

  • Wednesday, 1 July, 2020
    Hargreaves says revamped ‘best buy’ list would exclude Woodford fund

    Investment platform rebrands its recommended funds following Woodford fund collapse

  • Friday, 5 June, 2020
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Neil Woodford is unlikely to make a comeback — but could value investing?

    Value stocks are unfashionable and cheap — they’re already bouncing back

  • Friday, 5 June, 2020
    Woodford fund sells biotech portfolio for up to £224m

    A Wall Street-listed patents specialist agrees to buy healthcare assets once owned by former star fund manager

  • Friday, 5 June, 2020
    UK companies
    Woodford anniversary proves provident for Invesco

    Fund house sees to unfinished business one year on from former star’s fall from grace

  • Sunday, 31 May, 2020
    News in-depthFTfm
    Has the investment industry learnt from the Woodford scandal?

    Questions hang over fund rules, conflicts of interest and role of intermediaries

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    Personal Finance
    Neil Woodford fund: investors still await final payout

    Twelve months after Equity Income fund’s suspension, pandemic leads to further delays

  • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
    Executive Pay
    Chair of former Woodford trust receives 15% pay rise

    Susan Searle criticised for role in overseeing close-ended fund that halved in value during 2019

  • Friday, 22 May, 2020
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Neil Woodford, Mark Barnett and the case for active management

    The average UK active fund has outperformed over the long term

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    City InsiderMatthew Vincent
    ‘Woodford protégé’ finds he needs to update CV

    Fallen investor’s former apprentice Mark Barnett has lost second of three jobs

  • Wednesday, 1 April, 2020
    Invesco
    Invesco cuts value of Barnett’s unquoted holdings by 60%

    US fund manager to offload problem investments to avoid Neil Woodford-style liquidity crunch

  • Thursday, 12 March, 2020
    Trapped Woodford investors in line for £142m repayment

    Savers are warned they will not recoup all their money until next year

  • Wednesday, 11 March, 2020
    Moira O'Neill
    How many funds make an ideal portfolio?

    Most investors will find that more than 20 or 25 funds is way too many

  • Sunday, 8 March, 2020
    Terry Smith
    Terry Smith blasts platforms for fuelling illusion of fund liquidity

    Fund manager accuses Hargreaves Lansdown and others of putting investors at risk

  • Saturday, 29 February, 2020
    Fund management
    Ex-Woodford fund shrinks 16% since reopening

    New manager Standard Life Aberdeen hit by investment in Tui

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