James Hanbury blasts Hargreaves Lansdown for backing £5.4bn PE bid

Undervaluation and conflicts of interest

Cristian Angeloni
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Lancaster Investment Management portfolio manager James Hanbury and analyst James Spalton have penned an open letter to Hargreaves Lansdown chair Alison Platt to criticise the platform’s support of the £5.4bn bid received by a private equity consortium.

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