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Monday, February 15, 2021 11:00:41 AM
"Woodford makes dramatic comeback with Jersey fund launch. The disgraced manager has reunited with right-hand man Craig Newman and US investor Acacia Research for a biotech fund aimed only at institutional investors."
'Neil Woodford is making a dramatic return to investment management with a new fund, less than 16 months after his previous firm collapsed in a spectacular fall from grace.
The disgraced manager has reunited with right-hand man Craig Newman to set up Woodford Capital Management Partners, which will partner with US-based Acacia Research, to launch a Jersey-based biotechnology fund.
‘We’re going to rebuild the Woodford investment operation under a new brand,’ Woodford told the Telegraph in an interview at the weekend.
‘I didn’t want what happened to me in 2019 to be the epitaph of my career, I didn’t want it to be the full stop. I’m not trying to rebuild an ego, I just felt I wanted to continue to do the things that I believe in.’
The new fund will only be available to institutional investors and will hold a number of stocks previously owned by the failed LF Woodford Equity Income fund.
Woodford’s empire collapsed in October 2019 after he was ignominiously sacked from his flagship Woodford Equity Income fund by administrators Link Fund Solutions.
This followed a run of poor performance after a string of bets on illiquid, unlisted companies turned sour, leaving investors unable to withdraw their money for months. At the time of gating, £3.6bn of investor cash was trapped in the fund.
‘I’m very sorry for what I did wrong,’ he told the Telegraph. ‘What I was responsible for was two years of underperformance – I was the fund manager, the investment strategy was mine, I owned it, and it delivered a period of underperformance.’
He remains angry with Link for suspending the fund in June 2019 ahead of his sacking, claiming performance would have turned around if he’d been given more time.
‘I can’t be sorry for the things I didn’t do. I didn’t make the decision to suspend the fund, I didn’t make the decision to liquidate the fund. As history will now show, those decisions were incredibly damaging to investors, and they were not mine. They were Link’s decisions,’ he said.
Woodford highlighted the subsequent performance of several of his former fund’s holdings.
Synairgen’s share price more than quadrupled in one day after the Southampton-based biotech company found a potential Covid-19 treatment, and Oxford Nanopore surged on developing a rapid Covid-19 test.
Another holding, Kymab, was bought by Sanofi in a $1.45bn (£1.08bn) deal in January, months after Link had sold the position for a third of its current valuation.
Link also came under fire last June for selling a portfolio of up to 19 quoted and unquoted healthcare stocks to Acacia Research, the company Woodford is working with on his new venture, in a £224m deal.
Acacia went on to flip some of these stocks, making a £113m profit in just five months.
The remaining stocks held by Acacia will form the cornerstone of Woodford’s new fund. This portfolio will only be offered to institutional investors, with Woodford saying he now accepts that unlisted stocks are unsuitable for retail funds.
It remains to be seen how much money Woodford’s new venture will raise, but the fallout from the collapse of Woodford Investment Management will continue to be felt for some time.'
https://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/woodford-makes-dramatic-comeback-with-jersey-fund-launch/a1465595?ref=wealth_manager_all_stories_list
I expect he still believes in the investment case for NWBO!
Would make for an interesting twist in the tale...
Acacia made a ton by buying his old holdings on the cheap.
I see another of his past holdings, Prothena, is up 45% on the day..
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