Brian Ashford-Russell, a non-executive director of investment management firm Polar Capital Holdings, let go of 375,000 ordinary shares in the firm on Thursday, picking up nearly £2m in the process.
Ashford-Russell, a member of Polar's board since July 2017, sold the shares at a price of 518p each for a total of £1,942,499.94.

Polar Capital reported an increase of more than £1bn to its assets under management earlier in January, due in part to market movement and its improved performance after it chose to close several underperforming funds.

The company had £11.7bn of assets under management as of 31 December 2017 and reported a pre-tax profit of £11.8m on its interim report card.

As of 1700 GMT, shares had inched forward 1.97% to 518.00p.

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Polar Capital Holdings (POLR)
Director name: Ashford-Russell,Brian J D
Amount sold: 375,000 @ 518.00p
Value: 1,942,499.94£

Polar Capital Holdings (POLR)
Director name: Woolley,Tim
Amount sold: 163,720 @ 518.00p
Value: 848,069.57£

Cropper (james) (CRPR)
Director name: Wild,Phil
Amount sold: 1,000 @ 1,735.00p
Value: 17,350.00£

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Director name: Watson,Dave
Amount sold: 626 @ 1,726.00p
Value: 10,804.76£

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