A fond farewell to Bill Mott

As West Ham football club move, on to a new era with a change of ownership to an Icelandic biscuit m...

As West Ham football club move, on to a new era with a change of ownership to an Icelandic biscuit maker, it seems appropriate to pay tribute to fund management's most famous Hammer - Bill Mott. Come the end of this year, Bill may finally have the opportunity to hang up whatever fund managers do when they properly retire. A calculator or balance sheet maybe? Whatever. He's had more farewell tours than Frank Sinatra over the past three or four years - first acting as a consultant to the fund Leigh Harrison took over, and more recently holding the fort with Errol Francis' departure to Schro...