Nils Taube
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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.
Born in 1928 to English mother and Estonian father, his family fled to Germany after the Soviet Union occupied Estonia in 1940. He completed his schooling in Germany and arrived in Britain in 1946 and joined the stock broker Kitcat & Aitken in 1948.
After Estonia regained independence, he was a member of the Estonian prime minister's research and development council, advisor to an Estonian cabinet committee overseeing state investments and helped run the Soros Open Estonia Foundation. He funded a cancer research laboratory at Tartu University.
George Soros
George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...
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.
Born in 1928 to English mother and Estonian father, his family fled to Germany after the Soviet Union occupied Estonia in 1940. He completed his schooling in Germany and arrived in Britain in 1946 and joined the stock broker Kitcat & Aitken in 1948.
After Estonia regained independence, he was a member of the Estonian prime minister's research and development council, advisor to an Estonian cabinet committee overseeing state investments and helped run the Soros Open Estonia Foundation. He funded a cancer research laboratory at Tartu University.