Hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey’s wager against the pound has paid off as profits at the Boris Johnson donor’s investment firm soar. Profits at Odey Asset Management rose 81pc to £16m for the year to April 2019, according to accounts seen by The Telegraph. Mr Odey is believed to have taken £3.8m …
Read More »Crispin Odey’s wife to chair the Jupiter fund he shorts
A top hedge fund manager known as one half of the City’s “Posh and Becks” has been appointed as chairman of a fund house her husband Crispin Odey has been betting against. Nichola Pease – whose family helped found Barclays Bank, where her brother-in-law John Varley was formerly chief executive – will take over at …
Read More »‘I’ve stopped shorting the pound and am now investing in Britain’
Hedge fund billionaire Crispin Odey has hit back at criticism that he is betting against Britain, arguing that he has ended his wager against the pound and has invested several hundred million pounds in UK companies. Mr Odey told The Sunday Telegraph that he was “no longer short on the …
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