The fall of Crispin Odey, an old-school City icon

Crispin Odey cultivated a reputation as one of the smartest guys in the financial industry and by 2008 his firm was managing $5.25bn in assets. Now, his empire is crumbling. Jane Lewis reports

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Earlier this year, Crispin Odey joined colleagues at Grosvenor House in Mayfair for “the hedge-fund world’s equivalent of the Oscars”, says the Financial Times. Odey Asset Management won “firm of the year”. 

Few of those celebrating the win at the black-tie gala would have guessed that, within months, the £3bn asset manager would all but cease to exist. 

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Jane writes profiles for MoneyWeek and is city editor of The Week. A former British Society of Magazine Editors editor of the year, she cut her teeth in journalism editing The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page and writing gossip for the London Evening Standard – while contributing to a kaleidoscopic range of business magazines including Personnel Today, Edge, Microscope, Computing, PC Business World, and Business & Finance.

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.