Lars Windhorst and Bruno Crastes – inside the most mysterious and destructive friendship in high finance

He was one of the most gifted fund managers of his generation. Why did he bet so much on a notorious financial escapologist?

18 January, 2024 by Cynthia O’Murchu and Robert Smith

In October 2019, hundreds of wedding guests flew in from around the world to the grandest resort on the French riviera, the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. But this was to be no ordinary stay at the pleasure palace immortalised in F Scott Fitzgerald’s

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