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H2O Asset Management

  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    H2O investors file legal challenge to €250mn FCA settlement

    Group of 10,000 stakeholders applies for judicial review of compensation deal approved by regulator

    FCA signage
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    FT Asset Management
    Asset Management: Lunch with economist Eugene Fama

    Plus, H20’s cover up, ESG funds double down on defence, and Hôtel de Gallifet in Aix-en-Provence

  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Business InsightPatrick Jenkins
    H2O vs FCA: a case study in not moving on from a scandal

    Regulators must show pragmatism as well as toughness but playing legal mediator, rather than policeman, looks odd

    H20 logo
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Carl Icahn’s billions in margin loans Premium content

    Plus, the great lengths of H2O Asset Management and a long-shot bid emerges for 7-Eleven

    Carl Icahn
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Secret superyacht trips and fake documents: how H2O tried to cover up a scandal

    UK watchdog accused firm of misleading it over ties to financier Lars Windhorst

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Coca-Cola’s mysterious tax formula Premium content

    Plus, H2O Asset Management pays up for ‘serious breaches’ and Glencore’s coal rethink shows how the pendulum has swung on ESG

    The side of a Coca-Cola delivery truck
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    H2O to pay investors €250mn over ‘serious breaches’

    Regulator criticises ‘false’ statements, lax due diligence and failing to declare hospitality including use of a superyacht

    An FCA sign on a glass door at its offices in London
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Lars Windhorst
    Nathaniel Rothschild agrees to back Lars Windhorst’s Tennor

    Scion of Rothschild financial dynasty joins investment firm as executive chair and takes minority stake

  • Sunday, 3 March, 2024
    H2O’s auditor warns accounts ‘do not give a true and fair view’

    Mazars issues ‘adverse’ audit opinion on asset management group’s latest accounts

    View of La Defense district in Paris
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    H2O to repay €70mn to investors with funds trapped in illiquid assets

    Investors in asset manager were hit by group’s outsized exposure to German financier Lars Windhorst

    Montage of Lars Windhorst and euro notes
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Inside the most mysterious and destructive friendship in high finance

    Bruno Crastes was one of the most gifted fund managers of his generation. Why did he bet so much on the notorious Lars Windhorst?

  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    H2O hit with investor lawsuit claiming €700mn losses

    Natixis, KPMG and CACEIS also sued in first major litigation relating to illiquid asset scandal

  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Lars Windhorst
    Lars Windhorst hit with €150mn freezing order

    German financier is trying to fend off litigation from a number of aggrieved creditors

    Lars Windhorst
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    Lars Windhorst
    Indebted financier Lars Windhorst denies living ‘billionaire lifestyle’

    German struggles to answer questions about net worth and solvency at London court

  • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
    Fund management
    Singapore’s GIC cuts exposure to H2O Asset Management

    Decision by sovereign wealth fund follows French market regulator’s fine last month

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Bruno Crastes battles on at H2O following investment ban

    Firm’s founder makes clear to clients he will still play an active role despite sanction by French regulator

    Bruno Crastes
  • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
    Regulator slaps record fine on H2O over Windhorst-linked investments

    Penalty comes as asset manager announces first repayment to investors with frozen funds

    Lars Windhorst
  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Lars Windhorst offered La Perla role to H2O chief’s wife

    Asset manager was pouring investors’ money into financier’s ventures when post was proposed

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
    Due Diligence
    H2O: the FT investigation’s big finale Premium content

    Plus, a proxy fight with big implications for activists, and Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari owners seek a big-ticket valuation

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    H2O tells clients French regulator did not accuse it of fraud

    Asset manager moves to reassure customers after French authorities accused it of ‘grave’ rule breaches

    Bruno Crastes
  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    H2O faces record €75mn fine and investment ban for chief

    French regulator recommends tough action over the asset manager’s investments in illiquid bonds tied to Lars Windhorst

    Bruno Crastes, H20’s co-founder and chief executive
  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
    Lars Windhorst
    Lars Windhorst hired corporate spies that targeted football club boss, lawsuit says

    Israeli company mounted operation to oust Hertha Berlin president, according to court documents

    Lars Windhorst, pictured in Los Angeles in July 2021
  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Lars Windhorst
    Behind Lars Windhorst’s scramble to repay H2O

    Controversial financier has pledged to find half a billion euros in ‘weeks’

    Montage of Lars Windhorst and H2O logos
  • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
    Lars Windhorst
    Lars Windhorst pledges to repay €550mn to H2O in ‘weeks’

    Controversial financier tells FT he will make large payment to troubled asset manager

    Lars Windhorst
  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Natixis completes deal to cut ties with H2O Asset Management

    French bank finalises plan to dispose of troubled subsidiary

    A Natixis office in Paris
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