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History isn’t as precise as we imagine. It’s pieced together from scraps and fragments, which is why some names fade over time. One of them is Jim Slater.
As the BBC once wrote, ‘The name probably means nothing to anyone under 50, but in the 1970s Jim Slater was a truly famous businessman’.
Slater’s 1977 autobiography Return to Go is long out of print, but it captures the rise and fall of a remarkable financier. Fifteen years later, he wrote The Zulu Principle, a classic investment guide that distilled his hard-won lessons.
Read together, the two books chart the…
