David Webb, Hong Kong’s Most Vocal Activist Investor, Dies (1)

David Webb, Hong Kong’s most vocal activist investor whose investigations into corporate malfeasance triggered regulatory probes and made him a celebrity in the city’s financial industry, has died. He was 60.

Webb passed away peacefully in Hong Kong on Jan. 13 from metastatic prostate cancer, according to a statement on his official X account. Diagnosed in 2020, he saidin February that he might have only months more to live.

A resident of Hong Kong since being transferred there by Barclays Plc in 1991, the British-born Webb made his name and fortune spotting investments in the city’s notoriously volatile ...