Former Woodford favourite Oxford Nanopore targets £300m listing

Former Woodford favourite Oxford Nanopore in potential £4bn London listing to boost ‘ambitious growth plans’ ON revealed plans to list last week with analysts suggesting a £4bn valuation  Firm aims to raise around £300m with free float of at least 25% of share capital  Biotech business does not expect to break even for at least … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: FCA must act faster on Greensill than it did on Woodford

The City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, acts in mysterious ways. For months now all our questions about holding an investigation into Greensill Capital (UK) and Greensill Capital Securities have been batted away. We were told that the ‘Appointed Representative’ (AR), Mirabella Advisers, was the supervisor of Greensill Capital Securities and that was the end … Read more

More misery for Woodford investors as former flagship fund dives 29%

More misery for Woodford investors as disgraced stock picker’s former flagship fund crashes another 29% By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 26 April 2021 | Updated: 22:48 BST, 26 April 2021 Investors in the former Woodford Patient Capital Trust are still suffering as its chairman admitted performance had been ‘disappointing’ over … Read more

Neil Woodford poised to set up new venture in Cayman Islands

Disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford could set up new venture in notorious tax haven of Cayman Islands By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 25 April 2021 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 25 April 2021 Disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford is poised to set up his new venture in notorious tax haven, the … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Will Woodford investors see payout?

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: When will Woodford investors see a payout? Government not inclined to compensate them for the losses they have suffered By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 24 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 24 April 2021 Brazen double standards. That was the verdict last week of many Woodford Equity … Read more

Neil Woodford and partner shared £1.5m payout before collapse

Neil Woodford and his business partner Craig Newman shared a £1.5m payout just months before their investment empire imploded By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 18 April 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 18 April 2021 Fallen fund manager Neil Woodford and his business partner Craig Newman shared a £1.5m payout just … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: FCA stuck in lockdown over Woodford saga

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: The FCA is stuck in lockdown over the Woodford saga By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 10 April 2021 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 10 April 2021 Another week goes by and yet again there is more depressing news on fallout from the demise of the Woodford investment empire.  … Read more

Woodford savers in new worry over deal to invest their money in Mafic

Woodford savers in new worry over ‘curious’ deal to invest their money into little-known US firm By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 1 April 2021 Link’s decision to invest more of Woodford victims’ money in a little-known firm called Mafic has been branded ‘very … Read more

Woodford administrators accused of of throwing ‘good money after bad’

Woodford Equity Income investors accuse fund administrators of throwing ‘good money after bad’ after cash is diverted into struggling US firm By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:56 BST, 31 March 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 31 March 2021 The Woodford Equity Income Fund is being wound up following Neil Woodford’s fall from … Read more