An award winning hedge fund manager hanged himself after becoming stressed about the financial implications of coronavirus, an inquest has heard.
Guy Rushton, 36, who was married with children, was found in a barn near his £3.5million Wiltshire home less than two weeks after he was discharged from a psychiatric hospital.
The £292million hedge fund he managed had lost around £180million in value due to the effect the global pandemic was having on the stock market, according to reports.
His wife told an inquest that as a result he was feeling uncertain about the future and extremely stressed .
He had previously suffered with high blood pressure whic his family attributed to pressure of being sole manager of the high-stakes fund.
An award-winning hedge fund manager who took his own life last year had experienced a build-up of “high stress” over the demands of his job, his health and the financial impact of the pandemic on his
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Miryam Lopez, 11, waited outside the doors of IS 318 in East Williamsburg with her mom Thursday morning, eager to walk into a classroom and see her teacher and her best friend.
Eager, the sixth-grader said, to get a break from the non-stop remote learning, where she found herself easily distracted.
“It was a bit hard to learn, because you have your phone out, you have your tablet, and you open any site you want,” Miryam said. “So that was a bit hard for me.”
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SCDF old firefighting hoses to be used to furnish new habitat for Sumatran Orangutans
Fire hoses can be manipulated into many different shapes and forms to provide multi-dimensional, stimulating, climbing and resting environments for orangutans. (Photo: Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme)
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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has donated 90 firefighting hoses to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP), which will repurpose them for use in a new orangutan habitat in North Sumatra.
This is the third such donation made by SCDF to various wildlife organisations, as part of its efforts to “give new life to old firefighting hoses”, it said in a news release on Monday (Dec 21).
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