Owen Walker.
OWEN WALKER
BUILT ON A LIE: THE RISE AND FALL OF NEIL WOODFORD AND THE FATE OF MIDDLE ENGLAND’S MONEY (2021)
Neil Woodford (born 1960) was for 25 years a star investment manager with Invesco, building his portfolio of investments under management to a value of over £20 billion. In 2014 he left Invesco to establish his own investment management company Woodford Investment Management. But after five years everything went very wrong.
The Times described Owen Walker’s biography of Neil Woodfdord thus: ’This book should be sold with a bottle of blood-pressure pills. Owen Walker paints a picture of complacency, incompetence and deceit that allowed Woodford, arrogant and naive in equal measure, to splurge his investors' cash on half-baked schemes, covering up the results with financial jiggery-pokery and outright lies.’
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Owen Walker is a jouranlist with the Financial Times. He was their asset management correspondent, then moving to cover European banks. His first book, published in 2016, was Barbarians in the Boardroom - an account of the activities of activist investors moving on under-performing quoted companies.
