City Cinderella by Peter Stormonth Darling
The Cinderella story of Mercury Asset Management, the despised and unwanted offspring of the merchant bank SG Warburg, which went on to outperform them all.
Jonathan Davis, The Independent A highly readable memoir of the City's more recent pastMax Davidson, Daily Telegraph City Cinderella paints a fascinating portrait of the Square Mile in a period of transition... the best of the book is in its deft sketches of people. Charles Ellis, author of Winning the Loser's game A great business adventure story - wonderfully told and beautifully written. Ian Kerr, Euroweek ...it is a brilliant read... Colin Leach, Times Literary Supplement ...enlivened by agreeable (occasionally risqui) anecdotes and lively, sometimes sharp, pen portraits...
Peter Stormonth Darling was chairman of Mercury Asset Management from 1979 to 1992. Before that, he fought as an infrantry officer in the Korean War, studied law at Oxford and emigrated to Canada, where he joined a small financial business in Toronto which had been set up by Siegmund Warburg, founder of Warburgs, the merchant bank. After six years in Canada, he returned to the UK to join Warburgs, where he later became vice-chairman. He lives in London and is an investment consultant, sitting on a number of boards and committees in England, Scotland and the United States and Canada, including the investment committee of the United Nations pension fund.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781587990359 |
| ISBN 10 | 1587990350 |
| Title | City Cinderella |
| Author | Peter Stormonth Darling |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2003-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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