Star fund manager Neil Woodford's new venture has been named after the man himself, according to documents published to Companies House.
Woodford Investment Management (WIM) was set up in the middle of January, according to a Companies House filing, at the same address as Oakley Capital, the business whose infrastructure Woodford will be using for the new venture. WIM was set up by Nicholas Hamilton and Richard Graham Catherwood Smith. Hamilton is an ex-Invesco Perpetual employee. Hamilton, head of institutional business at Colonial First State in Sydney, will return from Australia to work at Oakley Capital Management in Woodford's retail asset management business when he joins on 1 May 2014. Prior to joining Colon...
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