Simon Nixon
Simon Nixon 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. He is currently executive editor of Breakingviews.com and writes the weekly “City View” column for MoneyWeek.
- Mervyn King was right about City bonuses – they’re at the heart of this financial crisis
- UK bank shares look attractive, but any rally will prove short-lived
- The bare-faced cheek of begging bankers at Gordon Brown’s breakfast
- Mega-banks should face up to the painful truth that small is beautiful
- Bank stocks rally and the worst may be over – but don’t pop the champagne just yet
- Bankers have regulators over a barrel – but reform is in their own self-interest
- Choose your hedge funds with care
- Whatever the Fed does, this crisis has a long way to run
- Private equity is putting on a brave face, but its players are feeling the pain
- Why a cult of youth is weakening the Treasury
- Britain will pay a price for Darling’s shambolic tax policy
- Why it's time to rethink incentives
- The real scandal has nothing to do with a rogue trader
- Why capitalism itself is now at risk
- Why the EU is weak – and condemned to long-term decline
- Darling's intiatives: useless at best
- The event of 2008 will be the US election – and we all have a stake in the outcome
- The seven events that defined the year
- The property sector is not all doom and gloom
- Five reasons for festive cheer in the City
- Darling is caught between a Rock and a hard place
- Hedge funds are no longer the preserve of the rich – they’re good for us all
- Unanswered questions over Northern Rock are damaging UK plc
- Why it's time for Scottish independence
- We’ve managed this crisis well so far – but the world has changed, nonetheless
- Why has Darling’s sensible-sounding proposal enraged almost everyone?
- Has the City lost confidence in Brown's judgement?
- Why to buy emerging market bonds
- The greatest blank cheque in history
- Britain is vulnerable to Bernanke’s whim
- Who’s to blame for the mess in the markets?
- OK, hands up, who’s got billions of dollars of debt they’ve not told us about?
- There could be more squalls to come, but it’s not yet a perfect storm
- Why shares in Europe’s largest firms are the safest havens around
- Five reasons to remain cheerful about the private-equity boom
- Have we reached the end of the credit cycle?
- The Tories' tax gift to Gordon Brown
- Why attacks on private equity are a richly deserved comeuppance
- Does the end of gentlemanly capitalism really matter?
- Why are levels of philanthropy in the UK so low?
- Why this hedge fund backlash has no teeth
- Has the commercial property market peaked?
- Why are investors still piling into Russia?
- Who will benefit from the new breed of hedge funds?
- How to profit from the property boom
- Why the British prefer gambling to investing
- Why London's choked transport network is bad for business
- Why subprime doom and gloom is overdone
- Why bad news in the press is good news for markets
- Rise of private equity a case for celebration, not condemnation
- US attack on Iran could be closer than you think
- The failed generation Blair will leave behind
- How British business taught the world a lesson in democracy
- Grab a piece of the hedge fund action
- Why we must resist the coming counter-revolution
- Can the new breed of hedge fund managers be trusted?
- Is it too late to profit from PFI?
- Climate change: a godsend to politicians and business
- What did the Big Bang do for UK industry?
- The Iraq war: a disaster for Bush and Blair, but not for markets
- Why Tory tax cut demands are deluded
- Why David Cameron's optimism is the mark of a good investor
- Boring no longer - why you should hang on to your utilities shares
- Simon Nixon's City View: Don't get complacent on globalisation
- As Russia’s Young Turks rush into resources, old hands hear echoes of the dotcom boom
- Simon Nixon's City View: the pound can't ride this high for long
- How private equity went mainstream
- Simon Nixon's City View: What a loss of faith in the US will mean for the dollar
- Simon Nixon's City View: US borrowing - not oil - is the real problem
- How Brown's bungling could pose a threat to the pound
- Simon Nixon's City View: Why we have to learn to live with globalisation
- Simon Nixon's City View: why investment bankers aren't on the shareholders' side
- Simon Nixon's City View: Why you can't buck the markets
- Why has the correction dragged on so long?
- Simon Nixon's City View: Could Merkel become the most significant European leader since Thatcher?
- Simon Nixon's City View: Why British shareholders should value their hard-won rights more highly
- Why the UK market shake-out was long overdue
- Why it's too late to jump on the property bandwagon
- Private equity set for mega-cap splurge?
- Why alcohol really is the answer to our problems
- Why weak politicians are good for markets
- Has Japan finally recovered?
- Is fat a threat to the food industry?
- What's driving the utilities merger boom?
- Why are European firms taking over Britain?
- What gilts are telling us about the UK economy
- How oil profits move world markets
- The best piece of financial advice I've ever received
- The state of Britain’s pensions
- How has Brown managed UK plc?
- Why all the gloom?
- What’s happening in the metals market?
- Can the EU and US avert a trade war?
- Why won’t the Tories promise tax cuts?
- Why aren’t we saving any more?
- Is this the end for equities?
- Finding an alternative to oil
- Will Greece be an Olympic winner?
- There goes my retirement
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