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FB Roundup: David Fattal, Sanjeev Gupta, Ted Lerner

February 21, 2023

In this week’s FB Roundup, Israeli billionaire David Fattal buys Brighton’s Grand Hotel; Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance aims to rescue collapsed UK steel companies; and tributes are paid to baseball team owner Ted Lerner.

Israeli billionaire David Fattal buys Brighton’s Grand Hotel
Leonardo Hotels UK and Ireland, part of Israel's Fattal Group, has bought one of the UK’s most famous seaside hotels as part of an expansion into the luxury market.

Owned by the billionaire David Fattal, Leonardo Hotels UK and Ireland said it planned to “Invest significantly” in the 159-year-old Grand Hotel in Brighton in a bid to return the 201-room Victorian building to its “Iconic status”.

Jonthan Ruffer’s investment review of growth and gains

January 21, 2021

Somewhere in a cupboard, I have a set of eight contract notes dated 8 January 1975, when I invested—upwards of £100 per holding!—in a range of UK equities. Reader, I called the bottom of the market—a dangerous thing for a young man to do.

Maggie and the new British disease

April 9, 2013

When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 Britain was a paralysed country. She did a lot that was necessary, but is she responsible for the quick-fix culture that has become the new British disease?

Comment: Stanley Ho and how not to run a family business

January 26, 2011

Stanley Ho, the Hong Kong and Macau-based casino king, has often been a controversial figure during his long career as one of East Asia’s better-known entrepreneurs.

Stanley Ho, the Hong Kong and Macau-based casino king, has often been a controversial figure during his long career as one of East Asia's better-known entrepreneurs.

According to some sources, the casino and property entrepreneur has allegedly been linked to the Chinese organised crime group, the Triads, and allegedly collaborated with the Japanese during World War II.

Not the sort of background – it might be felt – you would want hung out for wider scrutiny.