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  • Woodford fund manager set to return £20m to burnt investors

    Woodford

    The manager of Neil Woodford’s collapsed investment fund said today it plans to give £20m back to investors after it was warned by the financial watchdog it would be hit with a hefty bill over its role in the scandal last month.

  • Link faces £50m fine over Woodford fund’s collapse

    Woodford Fund

    The UK firm that managed Neil Woodford’s flagship investment fund is facing a £50m fine over its running of the fund before its collapse in 2019. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a draft warning notice against Link Fund Solutions Ltd (LFS) indicating it could be forced to pay £306m in costs and [...]

  • Law firms join forces to press claims on Woodford fund collapse

    Woodford collapse

    Two of the law firms pressing claims over the alleged mismanagement of the now collapsed Woodford Equity Income Fund are looking to join forces in a bid to win redress for investors.

  • Advisers call on FCA to strengthen investor protections following Woodford collapse

    October 19, 2021

    Financial advisers have called on the City’s watchdog to impose stronger investor protections where illiquid assets are held in funds, drawing on lessons learned from the collapse of Neil Woodford’s flagship fund. Since the fund was shuttered by former star stockpicker Woodford in late 2019, the biggest lesson learned among financial advisers was to give [...]

  • Woodford investors to wait until 2022 at earliest for last £124m

    August 2, 2021

    Investors stuck in Neil Woodford’s collapsed flagship fund will have to wait at least until 2022 to claw back the £124m remaining in the fund, it was revealed today. In an update for shareholders, fund administrator Link said that it was “hoped that the sale of the remaining assets will be concluded in 2022”. Shareholders [...]

  • Neil Woodford registers new firm in Cayman Islands – report

    April 25, 2021

    Disgraced stockpicker Neil Woodford has registered a new firm in the Cayman Islands as his bid to relaunch his career goes on. According to CityWire, new firm WCM Partners, which Woodford announced two months ago, has been registered in the tax haven. The move comes two months on from the start of the former star [...]

  • MPs urge FCA to set date for Woodford investigation end

    February 18, 2021

    The Treasury Committee has urged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to set out when it expects to conclude its lengthy investigation into the collapse of Neil Woodford’s fund. The City regulator has been investigating the situation regarding the gating and subsequent collapse of the Woodford Equity Income Fund since 2019, a process that has so [...]

  • The biotech bosses welcoming Neil Woodford back, even if FCA and savers stay wary

    February 18, 2021

    Neil Woodford is far from universally popular, and those fans he has are for the minute rare to put their head above the parapet. But Angharad Carrick found some, leading a number of Britain’s fastest-growing biotech firms. The return of Neil Woodford has, understandably, annoyed plenty. Chief amongst them are the savers he left out [...]

  • Neil Woodford’s comeback: Four City fund managers who also said ‘sorry’

    February 17, 2021

    News that the disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford is plotting a comeback may have raised eyebrows in the City, but he is not the first stockpicker who said sorry for his vehicle’s performance, and who did manage to stay in the game. Woodford gave an emotional interview over the weekend in which he apologised for the collapse [...]

  • Neil Woodford’s shock comeback raises eyebrows in the City

    February 15, 2021

    News that the disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford is looking to make a comeback in investment management has taken many in the Square Mile by surprise. The former star manager gave an emotional interview to the Sunday Telegraph yesterday in which he apologised for the collapse of his investment company and said he is working [...]

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