About Nils Taube
Baron Nils Taube was Britain's longest serving fund manager. A colleague of George Soros and advisor to Lord Rothschild, he also anticipated the 1987 stockmarket crash, while delivering an annual return of 15 percent for over 35 years while he ran his own fund. That year he left to establish Taube Hodson Stonex Partners, building up assets of £9 billion. After the collapse of Communism, Taube became involved in charitable and advisory work for his native country.
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