Between the lines: Rushbrook was right – and he will be sorely missed

TODAY it is doubly sad to sit down and write this column. Many in the fund management industry across Scotland and beyond will share my shock at the death over the weekend of fund manager Ian Rushbrook, managing director of Personal Assets Trust.

It is achingly ironic that Ian should have passed away just as his clarion warnings of a massive collapse in global equity prices came cataclysmically true.

Rushbrook reminded us of how vicious and how unforgiving of credit excess financial market...