Woodford investors face a further wait for cash from his ruined fund

Woodford investors face a further agonising 10-day wait for what’s left of their savings as ruined fund delays payouts The first payouts are now due to start on 30 January Investors will be told the amount they will get around 28 January 2020  The equity income fund has lost 15%  since investors were locked in … Read more

Woodford investors to hear size of first payouts on January 13:

Damage to Woodford investors will be revealed in January: Payouts will start with 56% of the stricken fund sold and £1.65bn raised so far Hundreds of thousands of investors face losses following collapse of the fund They will be told what they are to receive in their first payout on January 13  These will start … Read more

Woodford shamed again in infamous ‘Spot the Dog’ fund list

The worst investment performer in the latest notorious list of ‘dog funds’ is, unsurprisingly, Neil Woodford’s doomed equity income fund. The fallen star manager’s two former Invesco Perpetual funds are also named and shamed among the ‘biggest beasts’ – the poor performers holding the largest sums of customer money – in Bestinvest’s Spot the Dog … Read more

ASI INCOME FOCUS: Duo hope to rebuild from Woodford wreckage

ASI INCOME FOCUS: The managers who hope to rebuild from wreckage of Woodford’s other fund By Toby Walne for The Mail on Sunday Published: 23:46 BST, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 13:54 BST, 24 February 2020 Investment fund ASI Income Focus reopened earlier this month from the ashes of Woodford Income Focus Fund. The firm charged … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Why wasn’t HL more wise to fissures in the Woodford approach

Most savers with direct or indirect holdings in funds run by Neil Woodford are nursing nasty losses.  It is worse than that. Investors in two of the firms that promoted the Woodford cult – investor platform Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) and advisers St James’s Place – have had a nasty shock. Not everyone is a loser. … Read more

What’s gone wrong for Neil Woodford and Philip Green? This is Money podcast

What’s gone wrong for fund manager Neil Woodford and retail mogul Sir Philip Green? The This is Money podcast By This Is Money Published: 14:53 BST, 7 June 2019 | Updated: 16:08 BST, 7 June 2019 It’s been a rocky week to say the least for Britain’s most recognisable fund manager Neil Woodford – he … Read more

Neil Woodford protege Mark Barnett dumps all unquoted shares

Neil Woodford protege Mark Barnett dumps all unquoted shares from his Income and High Income funds By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:21 BST, 31 March 2020 | Updated: 22:21 BST, 31 March 2020 Mark Barnett will wash his hands of all the companies his funds own which are not listed on the … Read more

High-flyers cashed in weeks before Woodford crisis sent stock tumbling 

Hargreaves Lansdown chiefs in £6m share sale: High-flyers cashed in weeks before Woodford crisis sent stock tumbling By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 6 June 2019 | Updated: 10:08 BST, 7 June 2019 Two high flyers at Hargreaves Lansdown sold millions of pounds of shares in the company just weeks before … Read more

He’s back… Woodford plots £500million fund 

He’s back… Woodford plots £500million fund By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 Disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford is in talks about making a spectacular comeback just months after being sacked in one of the City’s biggest investment scandals. Woodford has been … Read more