Tributes pour in for fund veteran Nils Taube

Taube, who was still as active as ever and in the process of setting up his own investment company, was Britain’s longest-serving fund manager, having run his own fund for 37 years from 1969. Steven Bishop, chief operating officer at Taube, Hodson & Stonex, of which Nils Taube was one of the founder members, says everyone at the firm was shocked by the news. “He was a great man,” he says. “He was a very able and successful fund manager and a very charismatic personality.” In a joint statement, the firm adds: "The partners and staff at Taube, Hodson & Stonex are deeply saddened by the rec...