Hedge funds

Madcap antics: The Pentecost Papers, by Ferdinand Mount, reviewed

2 August 2025 9:00 am

Hapless Dickie Pentecost is drawn into a consortium involved in short-selling scams disguised as environmental activism in the Amazon

A hedge-fund protagonist – Gary Shteyngart takes aim in Lake Success

29 September 2018 9:00 am

‘We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favoured…

Detroit’s bankruptcy isn’t ‘creative destruction’ – it’s old-fashioned mismanagement

27 July 2013 9:00 am

One of the best articles I ever commissioned as an editor was an account by James Doran of a road…