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Barclays’ hedge-fund risks made it ‘beyond saving,’ Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund exec says

David Forbes, who worked at a firm running the fund and was close to the bank’s 2008 bailout, told the court that he was concerned

Barclays’ hedge-fund risks made it ‘beyond saving,’ Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund exec says
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The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund was advised against investing in Barclays at the height of the financial crisis due to the bank's hedge-fund liabilities.

The stance against the bank came from a former director at the International Petroleum Investment Company, which used to run Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, the High Court learned on 15 July in the latest twist in Amanda Staveley’s £1.5bn case against the lender.

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