James Buchanan

But the real corporate restructuring is just beginning - and this is where the real opportunities will be for long- term recovery in earnings."Over the last couple of years companies have focused more on restructuring their corporate debt than their underlying businesses, so there is still plenty of scope for value to be realised."Fundamental FactsFund Manager: Henry Ho (left)Age: 41Fund: Atlantis Asian RecoverySize of Fund: Capped at US$100m (po...

The UK chairman has persuaded senior executives to get out and meet real consumers. He has also set up a Foresight Group that involves rising managers investigating the effect of future trends on parts of the business. "Remuneration is now much more aligned with performance," adds Mr FitzGerald, whose own 1998 total package was pounds 1.1m.The Irish-born Mr FitzGerald, who likes to jog to work from his Chelsea home and plays jazz and opera in his...

His Haymarket activities are on top of his roles as chairman of the recently established Anglo-China Forum, Millennium Commissioner and MP for Henley-on-Thames.But he spends virtually all of his time at Haymarket. He returned to the family firm as a director the day he left hospital in 1997, and applied himself with vigour, negotiating a complex publishing deal in China and helping the company's drive into America. Before our appointment, he had ...

But he says neither the first grant, when the Conservatives were in power, nor the one a year ago had caused him to take the steps he did. They merely helped.He had largely ignored the approaches of the local Business Link and associated government-supported advisers because he felt they probably knew little about his market "You don't want to depend on them," he says. "You've got to run your own business and make your own decisions."It is an old...

The FBI pulled her in anyway.The FBI agent Mary Hogan helped to find Soliah and, as the Stevens case was linked to "terrorism", she thought it, too, was worth pursuing. The FBI found Kathleen Soliah, for instance, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group that kidnapped Patti Hearst. Two of them - Augustus Evans and Kevin Jackson - were quickly caught, and a third - Gregory Lewis, who killed the vegetable trader - was picked up...