Paul Marshall

A riposte to the Archbishop

Leading hedge-fund manager Paul Marshall says Rowan Williams was wrong to scapegoat share traders

issue 11 October 2008

When Rowan Williams and John Sentamu took up their crosiers against short-sellers, they chose strange company: Ken Lay, the disgraced chief executive of Enron, Dennis Kozlowski, the jailed boss of Tyco (who took out full-page ads against short-sellers, before his company sank under the burden of accounting fraud) and the former prime minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad are probably the most renowned critics of short-sellers.

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