Evening Standard – He may look like a jolly country gent (passions include fishing and shooting) but Crispin Odey has the markets constantly in his thrall. He is known for taking daring, often counter-intuitive, positions. And he has paid himself at least £85million in the past five years – more than £30 million last year alone.
Together with his wife, Nichola Pease, a member of one of the Barclays founding families and deputy chairman of private wealth group JO Hambro (her sister is married to ex-Barclays chief executive John Varley and her brother Richard Pease is a star fund manager), Odey, 52, is part of a formidable and impeccably well-connected unit.
