In the London mansions and country estates of the Schroder family, the Champagne corks were popping and young siblings have been pleading to hear their favourite bedtime story, "How many zeros make a billion, Daddy?" With some superb financial advice from Lazards and the genius of Win Bischoff, the Schroder family, led by the amiable Bruno, has unloaded a mediocre investment banking business which was going precisely nowhere and removed the one risk area that could have decimated the family fortune.
January 21, 2000