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Stephen Aikin has over 20 years financial markets experience,mainly in derivatives. He started his career in 1985, working for Kleinwor... Read more...»

After completing his BSc in Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research at Exeter, Keith Anderson worked for some years as a syste... Read more...»

Nick Antill is a Director of EconoMatters, an energy consultancy offering an ... Read more...»

Rebecca Ash studied philosophy, french and psychology then spent the first years of her working life in China living on £80 a month. S... Read more...»

Gerald Ashley has over thirty years experience in international financial markets, having worked for Baring Brothers in London and Hong... Read more...»

Natalie Avella is a part-time design writer and full-time francophile. She lives in London, fortunately close to Waterloo and an easy h... Read more...»

Paul V. Azzopardi has decades of experience in investment.

He trained and worked as a certified public accountant and then obtained ... Read more...»

Charles Bal is currently completing a PhD examining the role played by emotions in the sponsorship persuasion process, at the Universit... Read more...»

Michelle Baltazar is an award-winning finance journalist with more than five years of experience in the media sector. Up until 2003, sh... Read more...»

Sean Tully is one of the City of London’s most experienced traders. An American, he graduated in 1985 from the State University of Ne... Read more...»

Richard Beddard has been editor of the investment website, Interactive
Investor, since 1999. In December 2003 he launched a 'Financial... Read more...»

David Belbin is the author of more than thirty novels for Young Adults, including Festival, The Last Virgin and The Beat series. His wo... Read more...»

David Bennett is a grain futures trader living on the Gold Coast in Australia. His formal career spanned computing, teaching and human ... Read more...»

Robin Bennett came to business relatively late: not for him selling lemonade to neighbours from the front garden, cleaning cars with ra... Read more...»

Philip Beresford compiles the annual Rich List for the Sunday Times. He was previously editor of Management Today and industrial editor... Read more...»

George G. Blakey is a stockbroker of many years' experience. In the past he has worked for a number of banks and investment groups as a... Read more...»

Anthony Bolton left Cambridge University with a degree in engineering to start a career in the City. In 1979, aged 29, he was recruited... Read more...»

Simon Briscoe has been Statistics Editor at The Financial Times since 1999.

Before that he worked in the Central Statistical Office,... Read more...»

Robin has been associated with the financial markets since 1971, starting from the humble position of FX Instruction Clerk in the back ... Read more...»

Robbie Burns has been a journalist and writer since he graduated from Harlow Journalism College in 1981. After starting life as a repor... Read more...»

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Hor Chan is a Director of Financial Markets Training & Advisory Ltd. He provides specialist financial markets consultancy and training ... Read more...»

Edward Chancellor is a financial journalist and author. After reading history at Cambridge and Oxford universities, he worked for Lazar... Read more...»

John Chatfeild-Roberts (43) has been analysing and investing in funds professionally for 14 years. He and his team manage the Jupiter M... Read more...»

Grace Cheng is an investor and FOREX trader, and is the co-founder and chief editor of DailyMarkets.com - a financial community weblog ... Read more...»

Dimitris Chorafas has advised financial and industrial corporations in strategic planning and risk management for four decades and has ... Read more...»

Ross Clark is a journalist who has written extensively for The Times, The Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday. For some years he wrote ... Read more...»

Shirley Clarkson is a 73-year-old tour-de-force who continues to live life to the full. As well as creating the physical Paddington Bea... Read more...»

James joined SWIP in 2007 and is responsible for analysing UK utility and banking stocks, and for managing client portfolios. He is als... Read more...»

Russell Cockburn B.Sc(Hons). is a Former HM Inspector of Taxes providing tax consultancy and advisory services to other professionals, ... Read more...»

Dominic Connolly has been at the forefront of equity derivatives and contracts for difference (CFD) trading for nearly fifteen years. I... Read more...»

Rupert Cook has experienced technology corporate finance from every angle over the last 20 years. He understands intimately the aspirat... Read more...»

Oxford University educated financial journalist Peter Cooper found himself made redundant by Emap plc in London in the mid-1990s and de... Read more...»

Dr. George Cooper is a principal of Alignment Investors a division of BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd. He was born in Sunderland and s... Read more...»

Michael Coulson has been associated with the mining sector for over thirty years first working on the mining desk at James Capel in 197... Read more...»

Iain Dale is a writer, broadcaster, publisher, bookseller and political activist. He is the author or editor of 15 books including Marg... Read more...»

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Vic Daniels is the publisher of Here Is The City, a group of financial markets-related websi... Read more...»

Nicolas Darvas was a celebrated private investor of the 1960s. His colourful lifestyle, coupled with his highly successful investing me... Read more...»

Catherine Davey is an active CFD trader and the business editor of The Week magazine in Australia. She is a member of the Australian Pr... Read more...»

Jonathan Davis is one of the UK's leading authors and commentators on stock market investment. He is the author of Money Makers (Texere... Read more...»

Christopher Davis has spent more than 40 years in publishing, the majority of them with DK, which he joined as one of the founding memb... Read more...»

Little is known about the personal lives of each of this author, from the quality and clearness of the writings in his works, it soon b... Read more...»

Chris Dillow was educated at Oxford and Manchester Universities, and spent several years as an economist in the City, before becoming e... Read more...»

Jeremy trained as an automotive engineer, then an economist, but gave them both up to become a Technical Analyst. In 1983 he founded In... Read more...»

The greater part of William Dunnigan's life was dedicated to close association with stock and commodity markets and what makes them tic... Read more...»

Stephen Eckett read mathematics at London University and then joined Baring Securities on the Japanese equities and warrants desk. Afte... Read more...»

Matthew Elliott is co-founder and Chief Executive of The TaxPayers' Alliance, a pressure group launched in 2004 to represent taxpayers ... Read more...»

Nicole Elliott is a graduate of the London School of Economics and a member of the Society of Technical Analysis. She has worked in the... Read more...»

William Essex is a freelance journalist, writer and occasional broadcaster who also trains executives to deal with the media. He has ex... Read more...»

Bill Eykyn worked at the BBC before becoming a full-time trader on his own account. He specialises in trading the American 30-Year Trea... Read more...»

Richard Farleigh was born as one of eleven children in the country town of Kyabram in Australia in 1960. He was placed in foster care a... Read more...»

Guido Fawkes is best known as one of Britain's leading political bloggers, writing the pseudonymous "Guido Fawkes' blog of parliamentar... Read more...»

Matt Finnigan is a professional punter/sports trader who specialises in making money on horse racing and live soccer.

Matt also runs... Read more...»

John Forbat was an immigrant to London from Hungary, at the age of seven. After qualifying as an aeronautical engineer, his professiona... Read more...»

Gary Ford is a successful investor who tired of spending each day following market moves and searched for a way to remove the constant ... Read more...»

Justin Fox is the business and economics columnist for Time magazine. Previously an editor and writer at Fortune, he appears frequently... Read more...»

Jane Fuller is an independent consultant working in media and investor relations, and public and private business research. She is cons... Read more...»

After education at Westminster School, Oxford University and The College of Law, Anthony Garner spent a few formative years as a solici... Read more...»

Robin Griffiths joined Phillips & Drew in 1966, having taken a degree in Economics at Nottingham University. He went on to be a partner... Read more...»

Sam Griffiths-Jones is the author and maintainer of the Daily Sudoku website (www.dailysudoku.com), which provides free daily logic puz... Read more...»

Francis Groves studied modern history at the London School of Economics and has many years of experience working for legal and financia... Read more...»

Max Gunther is the author of several books, including 'The Zurich Axioms' (9781897597491) 'How to Make Your Man More Sensitive' and 'Th... Read more...»

Dr. Bruce Vanstone is an Assistant Professor at Bond University in Australia. He completed his PhD in Computational Finance in 2006. He... Read more...»

Nick Hanna is a writer specialising in green investments, and the creator of www.TheGreenInvestmentGuide.com. He is a director of a pri... Read more...»

Peter Hargreaves has over twenty-five years experience in investment having co-founded Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the UK's leading ind... Read more...»

Sean Harkin is a risk manager working in the City of London. He specialises in quantitative analysis of financial and economic data and... Read more...»

Rodney Hobson is an experienced financial journalist who has held senior editorial positions with publications in the UK and Asia and i... Read more...»

Pat Holland, B.Sc. has been a maths teacher and a recreational gambler for most of his life. Today he works as a freelance writer and t... Read more...»

Anthony Holmes is an international corporate turnaround specialist and transitional leadership expert who has led the revival of 7 comp... Read more...»

William Houston joined the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War and specialised in weapons. After leaving the Service, he qual... Read more...»

Mark Ingebretsen, has been writing about finance and investing for over 20 years. He is a featured columnist at TheStreet.com and his a... Read more...»

Nick Inman was born in Yorkshire in 1956 and studied politics at the University of Bristol in the 1970s before becoming a travel writer... Read more...»

Urban Jaekle provides trading systems' advisory services to a hedge fund with automated trading systems on futures. He holds a diploma ... Read more...»

Emma Jenkins is currently the managing director of EJJ International Limited, a niche consultancy specialising in commodity related pro... Read more...»

Luke Johnson is Chairman of Channel 4 Television and Risk Capital Partners. For eight years he wrote a weekly column on business in The... Read more...»

Emma Jones is founder and editor of Enterprise Nation , the home business website, and ha... Read more...»

David Jones first became involved with forex and spread betting in 1995, going on to work as a currency technical analyst in the late 1... Read more...»

Dr Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Maastricht School of Management [MSM] since January 2007, graduat... Read more...»

Michael N. Kahn currently writes the twice-weekly column "Getting Technical" for Barron's OnlineRead more...»

Arif Khurshed completed his PhD from ICMA Centre, University of Reading in 1999 and joined Manchester Business School (MBS), University... Read more...»

Peter Kilfolye has been Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton since 1991. He played a key role in the expulsion of Militant ... Read more...»

Mervyn J. King has over twenty years treasury experience. He has held senior positions with Standard Chartered Bank, Commonwealth Bank ... Read more...»

Joe Kolman has been a financial writer for more than two decades. He began his career in 1983 as an associate editor at Institutional I... Read more...»

Andrew Komarnyckyj is the Director of a niche legal practice delivering innovative legal services to the public and to other profession... Read more...»

Dr. Niels Kroner has worked for a number of years as a management consultant in the Financial Institutions Group at McKinsey & Company.... Read more...»

Clive Lambert has been writing daily technical analysis for futures traders since 2000 as director of FuturesTechs. Previous to that he... Read more...»

Robert Leach FCCA FIPPM ACertCM is a certified accountant, private investor and author of over 30 books. His titles include How to Make... Read more...»

In what now seems like a previous life, Kenneth was an accountant and tax consultant with Arthur Andersen in Dublin. He then held vario... Read more...»

Terry Lloyd has spent over thirty years in the world of development. After training as a mechanical engineer, he joined Rolls Royce Aer... Read more...»

Tony Loton trades a range of financial instruments including equities, exchange traded funds, covered warrants, and spread bets on his ... Read more...»

Freelance journalist Nick Louth has a monthly column in the Financial Times, writes the weekly Bernard Jones Investment Diary in the In... Read more...»

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Charles Mackay (1841-1889) was born in Perth, Scotland. His mother died shortly after his birth, and his father, who had been in turn a... Read more...»

Patricia Mansfield-Devine is a professional writer and journalist. She and her husband, writer and photographer Steve Mansfield-Devine ... Read more...»

Brian Marber can make a fair claim to be the most widely experienced technical analyst in the world, having been one since 1963.

A... Read more...»

Alfredo Marcantonio was Advertising Manager of Volkswagen GB during the early seventies. Inspired by DDB's work on the account, he lef... Read more...»

Ondrej Martinsky specialises in mathematics and computer science, intelligent and decision support systems. He has been working on seve... Read more...»

Dan Matthews was born in Epsom, Surrey, and educated at Glyn School and Keele University where he achieved a masters degree in global s... Read more...»

Ruth Ann McEwen is Associate Dean of Accreditation and Administration and Professor of Accounting for the Sawyer Business School at Suf... Read more...»

Mel McGee is a Mumpreneur Coach and the founder of www.supermummy.com - a website helping mums to build a successful and flexible onlin... Read more...»

Andrew McHattie is editor and publisher of Warrants Alert, ... Read more...»

Since April 2008, Stephan Meier has been head of the Private Banking Brazil Ultra High Networth Individuals (UHNWI) practice of one of ... Read more...»

Valeria Miceli is a lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Centre in Eco... Read more...»

Brian J. Millard's background was as a scientist, and until 1980 he was a senior lecturer at the University of London, publishing over ... Read more...»

Russell Napier is a consultant with CLSA writing on issues affecting global equity markets. After studying law, he began his investment... Read more...»

Andy Nash began his career at Cadbury - Schweppes in 1978 after graduating in Economics and Geography from the University College of Sw... Read more...»

Sally Nicoll has a ready-made fanbase, and the word is about to spread a whole lot wider. Before squandering her fortune on financial t... Read more...»

Pete Nordsted is currently serving notice as an administrator/statistician in the Royal Air Force and will leave the armed forces after... Read more...»

David Norman has been involved in trading and financial markets technology for over 20 years. He has traded and overseen corporate trad... Read more...»

Daniel O'Sullivan is a journalist who has covered the energy and mining sectors for the past decade. He is currently employed by the In... Read more...»

Mark Oaten was born in Watford in 1964. He was educated in Watford and attended the main local Comprehensive School. He obtained a degr... Read more...»

Born in Nairobi in 1959, Jim Parton was educated at Haileybury and St Andrews University, where he read French (but only for the two we... Read more...»

Alpesh B. Patel is one of the UK's best known financial commentators and authors. He is the founder of www.investingbetter.com. As well... Read more...»

Nishika Patel has a Masters Degree in Journalism and has experience in international journalism. She has formerly interned at Bloomberg... Read more...»

Andrei Pehar is a private fund manager, consultant to management, and a sought-after speaker and coach for professional traders and ind... Read more...»

Paolo Pezzutti has been active in the financial markets for over 20 years and is currently based in America. He has his own trading blo... Read more...»

John Piper has been involved with markets since his early twenties. In the late 1980s he started to trade options full time and did so ... Read more...»

Malcolm Pryor is an experienced spread bettor and a qualified technical analyst. He writes articles on trading and technical analysis a... Read more...»

After 24 years working for the same company, and many years within the corporate sales division, Bob Pugh realised it was time for a ch... Read more...»

Alberto Quadrio Curzio is Full Professor of Political Economy, Dean of the Political Science Faculty and Director of the Research Centr... Read more...»

Xavier Quattrocchi-Oubradous is an artist-turned investment banker-turned media entrepreneur. After many years of cello practice trying... Read more...»

Hamish Raw has twenty years' experience as an options market-maker on LIFFE, the Sydney Futures Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade an... Read more...»

Professor Graham Richards has worked with spin-out companies since 1988, when he was involved in founding the University of Oxford's te... Read more...»

Marc Rivalland is an active trader of futures,options and CFDs. Between 1975 and 1978, Marc was a share analyst for one of South Africa... Read more...»

Dr Lee Rotherham is by background a linguist and historian. His Mediaeval Occitan was just one of several languages that proved to be a... Read more...»

Nikki Royston is a freelance writer, based in Vancouver. After becoming disheartened by the male-dominated workplace, she took the deci... Read more...»

William D. Rubinstein is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He writes on a wide variety of topics, including... Read more...»

Nicolas Sarkozy is the President of France.

He was born in 1955 in Paris where he was brought up. He has risen through the ranks of ... Read more...»

Considering the fact that Richard Schabacker died aged thirty-six, he left a remarkably strong mark on the investment world. Considered... Read more...»

A history and politics graduate from University College Dublin, following the completion of his MA in Film and a subsequent short stint... Read more...»

James J Sharpe is a foreign exchange manager at a private bank in London.... Read more...»

Jim Slater trained as an accountant. He first became interested in investment in the Sixties, while a director at a British Leyland sub... Read more...»

Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and pioneering political economist and one of the key figures of the intellectual movement ... Read more...»

Mike Smithson is the founder of the highly regarded blog, www.politicalbetting.com For 13 years, he was a journalist with BBC News, and... Read more...»

Winner of two National Career Awards, 2009 for her Job Search Support Programme and in 2007 for The Gold Career Programme.

Denise Ta... Read more...»

Little is known about the personal lives of each of this author, but Owen Taylor was certainly extremely capable, being more the expert... Read more...»

Peter Temple has been involved in the City and its Financial Markets for nearly thirty-five years as a Fund Manager, an Investment Anal... Read more...»

Helen has been teetotal for over two years after deciding that life without alcohol is infinitely better than a life with it. She made ... Read more...»

Edmund has been teetotal for over 21 years after drinking heavily during his years at university and subsequently finding it difficult ... Read more...»

Emilio Tomasini is a proprietary trader for many European banks and hedge funds and Adjunct Professor of Corporate Finance at the Unive... Read more...»

John Train founded Train, Smith Investment Counsel in New York. His other books on investing include 'The Craft of Investing', 'The M... Read more...»

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Sean Tully is one of the City of London’s most experienced traders. An American, he graduated in 1985 from the State University of Ne... Read more...»

Dr. Bruce Vanstone is an Assistant Professor at Bond University in Australia. He completed his PhD in Computational Finance in 2006. He... Read more...»

Toby Walne is an award-winning national journalist who specialises in alternative investments. A writer for the Mail on Sunday he also ... Read more...»

Brian Walters A.C.I.B. has worked in the banking industry for 36 years, having started his career at Barclays in 1971, moved up to the ... Read more...»

Steve Ward is a trader performance coach and FX trader. He provides specialised trader performance and psychology coaching and training... Read more...»

David Watson read a bachelor's and master's degree in economics and finance at Manchester University. He is a Fellow of the Institute o... Read more...»

Heinrich Weber is a co-founder of and served as CEO of the pan-European options market-making firm Servisen Trading/QT Optec.

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Wiz Wharton was born in 1969 and had her first publishing success at the age of 13 as co-illustrator on the children's book, Never Trus... Read more...»

Lionel Zetter went to Sussex University where he took a BA Hons in History and an MA in African Studies, writing his thesis on 'Strateg... Read more...»

Kermit Zieg has written nine books and numerous articles on investment strategy. His two major areas of trading and research interest a... Read more...»