Katherine the Great loses her throne after bitter war with activists

Katherine Garrett-Cox has been made redundant from Alliance Trust. But will the Veuve Cliquot Business Woman of the Year be vindicated in her fight against activist investors?

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Will Katherine Garrett-Cox be vindicated?

Bad news for compilers of City superwomen lists there's now one fewer in the fold, says Citywire. Katherine Garrett-Cox, "one of a small band of women to make it to the top of fund management", has been made redundant from Alliance Trust, after her position as chief executive of its fund-management business was abolished.

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