Simon Nixon

Biography

Simon was a senior scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in history, and was president of the Cambridge Union. He worked for six years in investment banking, first at Credit Lyonnais Securities and then at Flemings. He was a founding editor of MoneyWeek and City editor of The Week. He has contributed to a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including The Independent, The Spectator and The Tablet. Simon is currently executive editor of Breakingviews.com and writes the weekly City View column for MoneyWeek.

Articles written by Simon Nixon

Osborne could still be a useful asset for the Tories (21 November 08)–Subscriber only
Economic Jurassic Park: four dinosaurs that could well come back to life (14 November 08)–Subscriber only
Hedge funds must adapt or die (07 November 08)–Subscriber only
Brown is right to want to stop repossessions - but what can he do? (31 October 08)
Don't blame the media for fuelling the crisis (24 October 08)
The bail-out will have an adverse effect on banks' liberty (17 October 08)
Regulators don't need more power, they should use the ones they've got (26 September 08)
It's hard to sympathise with City job losses, but they are bad news for us all (19 September 08)
The impact of the last Great Depression? It's still too early to tell (12 September 08)
Things are bright in asset management, despite darkening times for investors (05 September 08)
Banks and government will search in vain to cure the City's ills (29 August 08)
Four lessons from Russia – and what the West must do to hobble the bear (15 August 08)
Darling’s footling reform is so pathetic I don’t know whether to laugh or cry (08 August 08)
The credit crunch is far from over. Here are the five reasons why (01 August 08)
Why the real scandal over our public finances is hidden under the carpet (25 July 08)
We need a strong opposition. What we’ve got is half-baked and socialistic (18 July 08)
Are things really as bad as they seem for British banks? (11 July 08)
From good to bad to worse: three ways the credit crunch could end (04 July 08)
Zimbabwe may be a basket case, but other sub-Saharan countries are faring better (27 June 08)
FSA’s new rules are short of the mark – and will do more harm than good (20 June 08)

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