Authors

News Team

Sam Allcock

Claire

FI Team

Edward Sefton

Edward Sefton spent eighteen years in asset management before he started writing about markets. He began on the graduate scheme at a large UK fund house, moved to the multi-asset desk, and spent the bulk of his career running balanced mandates for pension schemes and charities. He left after the third reorganisation in five years and started filing copy because the industry needed fewer product launches and more honest commentary. He writes about fund performance, asset allocation, pensions, and the gap between what the marketing deck says and what the factsheet shows. He has sat through enough quarterly reviews to know when a fund manager is explaining alpha and when they are explaining luck. Edward lives in Hampshire. He reads the IA sector averages before breakfast and considers most investment commentary to be hindsight with a Bloomberg terminal.

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Publishing Wizard

Meera Chakraborty

Meera Chakraborty trained as an actuary and spent twelve years in financial services before moving to journalism. She worked at an insurance company pricing annuities, moved to a wealth manager building retirement income models, and spent her last years consulting on DB pension scheme de-risking. She writes about retirement planning, ISAs, tax wrappers, passive investing, and the quietly important decisions that most people put off until it is too late. She explains complexity without dumbing it down and has no patience for jargon used to obscure fees. Meera lives in West London. She thinks the phrase 'past performance is not a guide to future results' is the most ignored sentence in the English language.