Does scientific, artistic or political brilliance translate into investing success? It’s a topical question with hedge funds today accused of sucking talent away from the rest of the economy. So, the FT’s Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth sat down with reporter Toby Nangle, who has dug into the archives to assess the investment portfolios of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, John Maynard Keynes and other widely regarded geniuses of the past. What Toby found may surprise you, as will the historical wildcard he’s unearthed.

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Toby’s sources:

On Churchill: https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Champagne-Churchill-Money/dp/1784081817

On J.M.W. Turner:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5718586

On John Maynard Keynes:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2023011

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2287262

On Einstein:

https://einstein-website.de/en/what-happened-to-the-nobel-prize-money/#:~:text=By%20May%201924%2C%20Mileva%20had,visible%20result%20of%20my%20musings%E2%80%9D.