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Jim Slater | |
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Born | Heswall, Cheshire, England | 13 March 1929
Died | 18 November 2015[1] | (aged 86)
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Chartered accountant Businessman |
Employer(s) | Park Royal Vehicles ACV Group AEC Leyland Motors |
Known for | Slater Walker Capitalist column in The Sunday Telegraph author, The Zulu Principle |
Spouse | Helen (1965–2015, his death) |
Children | 4, including Mark |
James Derrick Slater (13 March 1929 – 18 November 2015) was a British accountant, investor and business writer. Slater rose to prominence in the 1970s as a businessman and financier, who was the founding Chairman of Slater Walker, an investment bank and conglomerate which collapsed in the secondary banking crisis of 1973–75.