IW's 25th anniversary: Where are the rising stars of 1995 now?

It was the middle of a bull market, South Africa won the Rugby World Cup and there was a Conservative Party leadership election initiated by Prime Minister John Major, prompted by divisions within the party about the European Union. He was re-elected in July, comfortably beating eurosceptic John Redwood. It all sounds rather familiar, but this is not the noughties. The year was, in fact, 1995. Nothing much, it seems, changes. A headline from the 30 January 1995 issue of Investment Week reads 'World markets await Fed Reserve meeting', back when the central bank's chairman was Alan G...