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David Ricketts is an experienced financial journalist and has covered the fund management industry for more than a decade. He is asset management correspondent at Financial News, the Dow Jones-owned publication based in London where has worked since 2017. He began his career as a reporter at the Financial Times Group just before the onset of the global financial crisis. He lives in Kent with his ... Read more on David Ricketts
An excellent book Paul Lewis, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Money Box
[A] vivid and affecting account, providing greater insights into 'Woody' Woodford’s private life and character. ... Ricketts depicts the ensuing slow-motion car crash well Ian Fraser, Literary Review
A revelatory book, which fascinatingly recounts how small investors were let down by a big fund manager who lost his golden touch and lost them significant amounts of money. Essential reading for ordinary investors and hopefully a wake-up call for regulators too. Baroness Ros Altmann CBE, former pensions minister
A fascinating read. James Max, host of talkRADIO's the Business Breakfast
A page turner that gives a fly-on-the-wall account of how Woodford went from hero to zero. It serves a salutary reminder of how a sure-fire winner, left unchecked, can cause so much financial misery to hundreds of thousands of small investors who were led to believe that Woodford had the Midas touch. The book singles out the red flags that were ignored by investors, their advisors and the regulators alike. It deserves to be read widely in this age where individual investors are obliged to plan for their own retirement nest egg. Professor Amin Rajan, academic, leadership coach and CEO of Create Research
This is an interesting book, written as a fast paced story that makes you eager to turn the next page. I highly commend David Ricketts’ book as recommended reading for any investor prior to allocating significant money to any fund manager. Cliff Weight, director at ShareSoc
A highly readable account of one man’s rise and fall from grace in an industry which most of us rely on in some way for our pensions and savings income. This book serves as a reminder that what goes up usually does come down, but in this case was aided by a culture of arrogance based on past performance and a view that rules were there to be broken. Nicky Morgan, The Rt Hon the Baroness Morgan of Cotes
The Evidence-Based Investor
I read the first of those books — When the Fund Stops by journalist David Ricketts — over the holiday period. It’s well worth reading, and I don’t want to give too much away about its ...
Read moreMaster Investor
Overall, When the Fund Stops is an exceptionally well researched page turner. Not only does it provide new and informative insights into the Woodford saga it should also give readers the foresight to ...
Read moreLCP
Show hosts Dan Mikulskis and Mary Spencer bring on David Ricketts onto the show to discuss his book 'When The Fund Stops.'
Read moreInvestors Chronicle
Ricketts' book ably traces Woodford's growing confidence (and later hubris), the conflicts that began to emerge at what is now Invesco, where his interest in unquoted companies would prompt concerns, ...
Read moreBloomberg
Before being forced to stop redemptions from his flagship fund, Neil Woodford was a poster-boy for U.K. fund management after evading the worst of the Dot Com bubble and the 2008 financial crash, and ...
Read moreTalk Radio Europe
David Ricketts joins the Talk Radio Europe team to discuss his new book depicting the downfall of Neil Woodford, When The Fund Stops.
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