Asset Management

Odey AM’s James Hanbury: ‘Mike Ashley is hugely misunderstood’

The capitalist contrarian on having disdain for received wisdom, his predilection for ‘last-man-standing companies‘ and how his thoughts on the PM have changed

Odey AM’s James Hanbury: ‘Mike Ashley is hugely misunderstood’
Photo: Danilo Agutoli

To thrive at Odey Asset Management, flamboyant money manager Crispin Odey’s hedge fund, you need to have disdain for received wisdom.

James Hanbury has it in spades. Hanbury, who manages four of the firm’s funds, including its largest, the Odey Absolute Return fund, is not afraid to blast conventional City thinking on Brexit and the UK economy.

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