Hedge fund manager suffered extreme stress before taking his own life
Guy Rushton worked at Polar Capital before taking his own life.
A hedge fund manager who killed himself last year had experienced a build-up of “high stress” over his job, health and the financial impact of Covid-19, his widow told an inquest.
Guy Rushton, 36, was found dead in a barn near his Wiltshire home last May, just hours after being classified as missing.
Rushton had worked at asset management firm Polar Capital, where he was the sole manager of the UK Absolute Equity Fund, which he founded in 2014.
Alannah Rushton, his widow, told the Wiltshire and Swindon assistant coroner that her husband had “experience high stress due to a number of factors,” and felt that he was unable to take time off as the sole manager of his hedge fund, the Times reported.
Polar fund manager Guy Rushton took his own life following extreme stress
Inquest hears how fund manager was ‘extremely stressed’ about his health, work pressures and dwindling fund
Polar Capital fund manager Guy Rushton took his own life in May last year having been “uncertain about the future” and “extremely stressed” about his health, the pressures of work and the dwindling size of his fund, a coroner’s court has heard.
Rushton, 36, was found dead in a barn near his home in Wiltshire shortly after he went missing on 22 May, 2020. Two weeks before his death, he had been discharged from a psychiatric hospital and had been prescribed antidepressants following a previous suicide attempt.