'I’m not try­ing to re­build an ego': Neil Wood­ford ap­peals to pro­fes­sion­als for his come­back biotech fund

Neil Wood­ford is back. For re­al.

More than a year af­ter he was fired from his epony­mous flag­ship fund — which fol­lowed a con­tro­ver­sial and chaot­ic sus­pen­sion that came on the heels of in­vestors de­mand­ing their mon­ey back fol­low­ing two years of un­der­per­for­mance — the dis­graced stock­pick­er said he’s ready to re­build a biotech in­vest­ment op­er­a­tion from scratch.

The new brand will be chris­tened WCM Part­ners, af­ter Wood­ford Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, he told The Tele­graph in an in-depth in­ter­view. Speak­ing pub­licly for the first time since get­ting sacked, he was at times emo­tion­al, apolo­getic and an­gry. Yet if any­thing, he still sounds con­fi­dent.

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