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MoneyWeek looks at the rise and downfall of Takafumi Horie, the young hotshot behind recent stockmarket turmoil in Japan.

"The nail that sticks up, gets hammered down", runs the old Japanese saying. And there will certainly be many among Tokyo's "smirking corporate old-guard" savouring the truth of the maxim following the downfall of Takafumi Horie, says The Economist.

The police investigation into his Livedoor internet empire wiped 6% off the Tokyo Stock Exchange in two days last week and has so far precipitated at least one suicide as well as Horie's own arrest.

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She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.