The return of Neil Woodford

There was a time when Neil Woodford, 60, was regarded as Britain’s best fund manager. It might seem hard to believe now, but during his 25-year tenure at Invesco, Woodford rode out the pitfalls of both the 1990s dot-com bubble and 2008’s devastating financial crash, emerging relatively unscathed at times when the world of finance was being turned on its head.