London's non-conformist fund managers

David Weill

Fund performance: up about 100 per cent (USdollars ) in 1993.

Background: left Salomon Brothers in 1989.

Expertise: International arbitrage.

Crispin Odey, Odey Asset Management

Fund performance: Odey European Inc - up more than 60 per cent (DM).

Background: economic history at Christchurch, Oxford; manager of Baring European Growth Fund; left Baring Asset Management in 1991.

Michael Sophia

Fund performance: Arral International Hedge up more than 50 per cent ( pounds ).

David Craig and Richard Atkinson, IFM

Fund performance: Premier up 27 per cent (dollars ); Iliad up 28 per cent (dollars ).

Skills: variety of executives with business school and top academic backgrounds.

Peregrine Montcrieff, Buchanan Partners

Fund performance (estimated): Global USdollars up 34 per cent; Global pounds up 37 per cent.

Skills: variety of executives with business school and top academic backgrounds

Sources: Tass Management, Micropal.