<div>Some of our conversations are deliberately different, and the man I interview here has cost me a lot of money! I also consider him a friend and somebody whose perspective I have valued.  </div>

<div>It could be said that Neil Woodford, CBE, has had a career of two halves, the first of which encompassed extraordinary investment success at Invesco Perpetual and then at Woodford Investment Management (2014-2019).  </div>

<div>At its peak, Woodford’s business managed £15bn and was backed by Hargreaves Lansdowne and St. James’s Place. Its clients included Kent County Council’s pension fund, a range of wealth management firms and 300,000+ retail investors. Neil was dubbed ‘Britain Warren Buffett’ by the UK media.  </div>

<div>Yet in 2019 the fund was suspended and then liquidated, following a shift in asset allocation from blue-chip public equities to illiquid, unlisted companies (he denies this was the cause of the collapse in this discussion). In the run up to the collapse, he experienced approximately £7bn of outflows.  </div>

<div>Using an investment lens, here we try to examine and understand what went right, what went wrong and now what may lie ahead.  </div>

<div>Neil remains under investigation by the UK Financial Conduct Authority at the time of this interview (March 2025). </div>

<div>​​The Money Maze Podcast is kindly sponsored by <a href="https://www.schroders.com/en/global/individual/">Schroders</a>, <a href="https://tracker.gold.org/l/824153/2024-03-19/bffk1">World Gold Council</a>, <a href="https://www.lseg.com/en">LSEG</a> and <a href="https://www.ifminvestors.com/">IFM Investors</a>. 
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