Donald Brydon, one of the City's best-known figures, has lost his job as deputy chief executive of BZW, 48 hours after Bill Harrison moved in as the new head of the investment bank. In 1995 it lost 65m Swedish crowns (pounds 6.3m) on sales of 766,000 crowns but that never daunted Mr Young.. The company, which was founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs in 1983, has developed a patented process used in the manufacture of cast iron products mainly for the car industry.Hyundai of Korea has signed an agreement to evaluate the process and SinterCast has installed it system in a large US foundry but executives will cheerfully tell you it has never made a profit in 13 years. Last week, much to everyone's amazement, including that of Sintercast, Morgan Grenfell emerged as its majority 58 per cent shareholder.Though listed on the Stockholm bourse, SinterCast's head offices are on the ninth floor of an office block half a mile from Twickenham rugby ground.It moved there from Lucerne at the beginning of August to be nearer its markets. Confused? Then spare a thought for the forensic accountants trying to track the byzantine share dealings of Peter Young. SinterCast, is one of the myriad high-technology stocks bought into by Mr Young's European Growth Trust.

The Swedes, however, will tell you that it never left Stockholm, writes Michael Harrison. But wherever it is, the company has never made a penny in profit. This week SinterCast is in Twickenham, south-west London A month ago it was in Lucerne, Switzerland. The SFO is being kept informed but has not begun an inquiry.Brokers who carried out deals for Mr Young say they received confirmations of all his trades from Morgan Grenfell and also received instructions from Maurice Wheller, the custody official in Jersey.No suspicion is attached to Mr Wheller.. I don't want to go back to a three-bed semi," Mrs Young said."Last week I really felt the world was crashing in on me. But he keeps coming home saying we will be all right."Mr Young is spending a great deal of time with his solicitors, City firm Peters & Peters, and could be sacked from his job next week. Morgan Grenfell Asset Management declined to respond to the suggestions made by Mr Young.The firm's investigators are thought to be analysing the contents of a Jersey bank account which was held in Mr Young's name, and which could hold the key to the start of any criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.The account, held at Morgan Grenfell in Jersey, could show if he benefited personally from any of the complicated transactions he carried out.

One described him as "incisive and focused".But there have also been questions about his state of mind amid reports that he was suffering from an enormous amount of stress.Mr Young has just moved into his five-bedroom home with his wife, Harmanna, and two children.But investigators want to establish how he purchased the house as speculation mounted that he secured a loan against some of the firms that were listed in the funds' portfolio.A Land Registry search shows that there is no mortgage attached to the property."I am worried we will lose the house It's my pride and joy We have only just finished having it redecorated. He has also had his passport confiscated and fears lawyers' fees could wipe him out."It seems as if we will lose everything with the lawyers' fees alone but it is one of those things in life That's just the way it is There are worse things that could happen You have got to keep things in perspective. At least I still have my family," said Mr Young.His skills as a fund manager were widely admired by many of his colleagues and business contacts before he was suspended from his job last week. The funds he ran had been among the top-performing funds before sliding through the rankings earlier this year."People want to believe in magic, they want to believe in gurus. They don't want to look inside the box because it might spoil the trick," Mr Young said.Morgan Grenfell froze his assets, and those of a Luxembourg company, Russ Oil & Technology, last week. Investigators are attempting to unravel a maze of Luxembourg-registered shell companies set up by the 38-year-old fund manager and assess whether he made any personal gain from his actions. Speaking at his pounds 450,000 house in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Mr Young said that he went out of his way to tell senior management about the companies in which he bought shares.But, he said his managers did not scrutinise his work because they trusted his previous performance.