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

A Poster against Investor Lars Windhorst is held up from supporter of Hertha BSC Berlin during the Bundesliga match between Hertha BSC and Sport-Club Freiburg at Olympiastadion on October 09, 2022 in Berlin, Germany.
A poster of investor Lars Windhorst is held up by a supporter of Hertha BSC Berlin during a match. Photo: Cathrin Mueller/Getty Images

The Financial Times

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

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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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