Great frauds in history: Jeff Carpoff’s green Ponzi scheme
Great frauds in history: Jeff Carpoff’s green Ponzi scheme
Jeff Carpoff's plan to make money from renting out solar-powered generators quickly turned into a Ponzi scheme.
4 Mar 2021
Ian and Richard Livingstone: the brothers who built a $7.2bn fortune
Ian and Richard Livingstone: the brothers who built a $7.2bn fortune
As 20-somethings, Ian and Richard Livingstone began snapping up cheap London property. Their knack for spotting promising but underrated assets has se…
28 Feb 2021
Great frauds in history: Helmut Kiener, Germany’s mini-Madoff
Great frauds in history: Helmut Kiener, Germany’s mini-Madoff
The performance of Helmut Kiener’s fund of funds, which invested money from institutions and private investors into hedge funds, seemed too good to be…
25 Feb 2021
Cathie Wood: the superstar investor shooting for the stars
Cathie Wood: the superstar investor shooting for the stars
Cathie Wood has quietly built a reputation for picking the unloved and misunderstood stocks that go on to thrive. She has just launched a new ETF that…
21 Feb 2021
Meet Andy Jassy – the new broom at Amazon
Meet Andy Jassy – the new broom at Amazon
Andy Jassy is taking over from departing CEO Jeff Bezos at the world’s largest online retailer. Will he be able to fill the founder’s shoes? Jane Lewi…
14 Feb 2021
Kate Bingham: the grande dame of venture capitalists
Kate Bingham: the grande dame of venture capitalists
The success of Britain’s vaccine strategy is largely down to one woman – Kate Bingham, a biotech expert for a venture-capital firm. It’s not the first…
7 Feb 2021
Stanley Thai: making a billion from rubber gloves
Stanley Thai: making a billion from rubber gloves
Malaysian entrepreneur Stanley Thai first spotted an opportunity in latex in 1987. He made his first million by the age of 29, and booming demand than…
31 Jan 2021
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Great frauds in history: the oil well that gushed fake shares
Great frauds in history: the oil well that gushed fake shares
Oil man S.C. Lewis and his henchman Jacob Berman issued unauthorised shares in their Californian oil company, defrauding many of Los Angeles' most pro…
28 Jan 2021
Great frauds in history: how Elizabeth Bigley, AKA “Madame DeVere”, spirited away cash
Great frauds in history: how Elizabeth Bigley, AKA “Madame DeVere”, spirited away cash
Serial fraudster Elizabeth Bigley AKA, the “psychic” Madame Lydia DeVere, conned people into believing she was the long lost daughter of fabulously we…
28 Jan 2021
Peter Cowgill: the force behind a fashion phenomenon
Peter Cowgill: the force behind a fashion phenomenon
Peter Cowgill became the accountant for a small sports shop in the Pennines in the early 1980s. Now, JD Sports is one of the most formidable forces on…
23 Jan 2021
Christopher Columbus Wilson: the spiv who cashed in on new-fangled radios
Christopher Columbus Wilson: the spiv who cashed in on new-fangled radios
Christopher Columbus Wilson gave radios away to drum up business in his United Wireless Telegraph Company. The company went bankrupt and Wilson was co…
21 Jan 2021
Elon Musk: the space oddity seeking world domination
Elon Musk: the space oddity seeking world domination
Elon Musk, the electric-car and space-travel pioneer who wants to move to Mars is now the world’s richest man. If he seems delusional, that’s all part…
16 Jan 2021
Great frauds in history: Philip Arnold’s big diamond hoax
Great frauds in history: Philip Arnold’s big diamond hoax
Philip Arnold and his cousin John Slack lured investors into their mining company by claiming to have discovered large deposit of diamonds. There were…
13 Jan 2021
Adar Poonawalla: the vaccine prince who will save the world
Adar Poonawalla: the vaccine prince who will save the world
Adar Poonawalla, the chief of the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer by volume, has an ambitious plan to rescue us all from Covid-19. The future for…
11 Jan 2021
The faces of 2020
The faces of 2020
Great leaders thrive in the midst of turmoil and upheaval, as we have seen this year. Four of the great movers and shakers of 2020 stood out for us.
29 Dec 2020
Three women CEOs who prove that diversity is the key to success
Three women CEOs who prove that diversity is the key to success
Tom Saunders looks at how three very different women – Shahrzad Rafati, Trinny Woodall and Anne Boden – have grown successful businesses.
28 Dec 2020
Great frauds in history: rogue trader Kweku Adoboli’s £1.4bn loss
Great frauds in history: rogue trader Kweku Adoboli’s £1.4bn loss
Kweku Adoboli's risky trading and his desperate attempts to cover it up wiped £2.7bn off UBS’s market capitalisation.
24 Dec 2020
The return of Janet Yellen
The return of Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen, the former US central-bank chief is back, this time as US Treasury secretary. Donald Trump wondered whether she was too short for the jo…
19 Dec 2020
Great Frauds in History: Robert Schuyler’s illicit share issue
Great Frauds in History: Robert Schuyler’s illicit share issue
Robert Schuyler was known as “America’s first railroad king” issued millions of dollars' worth of fraudulent shares in his company, and kept the money…
17 Dec 2020
The Kwoks: a soap opera set to run and run
The Kwoks: a soap opera set to run and run
Boardroom battles, bribery convictions, feuds, kidnapping – the Kwoks’ Hong Kong property empire has seen the lot. But for all the drama, they have te…
13 Dec 2020
Great Frauds in History: Michael Meehan’s market manipulation
Great Frauds in History: Michael Meehan’s market manipulation
Stockbroker Michael Meehan manipulated the markets, driving stock prices up and making a mint.
8 Dec 2020
Philip Green: retail king who lost the Midas touch
Philip Green: retail king who lost the Midas touch
Philip Green’s empire has collapsed, taking great chunks of the high street with it. In the Noughties his Topshop chain was called Britain’s favourite…
4 Dec 2020