Hargreaves Lansdown chair rumoured to have resigned under pressure

Hargreaves, who owns a 20% stake in the company he founded alongside Stephen Lansdown in 1981, left the board in 2015. He recently lashed out at the chair over the performance of the firm. "Look at the performance of the company while Deanna Oppenheimer has been chair — it has diabolical. She has presided over a disaster," Hargreaves said in October last year. Sky News  has now reporter that the firm has begun working with headhunters to replace the outgoing chair. In October, Oppenheimer was re-elected with 66.5% of the vote at the firm's annual general meeting, after Hargreaves p...