John Armitage, founder of hedge fund Egerton Capital and one of the key speakers at the Sohn Investment Conference in London, has literally put his money where his mouth is.

In the line-up of speakers yesterday, Armitage was scheduled to go up right after Peter Harf, executive chairman and co-founder of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS, Tuebingen, which is not for profit and the largest Bone Marrow Donor Center in the world.