Andy Davis began training as a journalist in the local press in 1990 and moved to the Financial Times in London five years later. He has been covering finance and business ever since.
Between 1995 and 2010 he held a series of senior roles at the FT in the UK and India, rising to become Editor of FT Weekend from 2007-2010. After 15 years at the paper, he left to become an independent finance, investment and business writer.
Since 2011 he has been Investment Columnist and Associate Finance Editor at Prospect magazine. He writes regularly for Financial World, published by the London Institute of Banking and Finance, and is the author of the Last Word column in The Review magazine, published by the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment.
For the past decade he has also worked extensively with corporate clients to produce incisive, original content for their publications and websites. He has acted as chair or moderator at numerous conferences, events and private roundtables
Specialist Areas
Andy Davis writes on a wide variety of financial services including:
- Asset management in public and private markets, including private equity and debt, infrastructure and real estate
- Retail and investment banking including digital challenger banks
- Fintech and alternative finance including marketplace lending and equity crowdfunding
- Wealth management and financial advice
- Pensions and personal finance
- Sustainability and ESG investments
- Financial regulation
He has a special interest in small business finance, including sources of non-bank finance for SMEs and early-stage equity markets. He wrote some of the first in-depth research into the Peer-to-Peer and Equity Crowdfunding sectors for Nesta and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation.
In 2019, he contributed a chapter on Financial Education in UK schools to the book Banking on Change, published by the London Institute of Banking and Finance. Andy also served a two-year term as a member-nominated trustee director of the Pearson Group Pension Scheme, gaining direct experience of the issues facing corporate pension schemes.
When he’s not at his desk, you’ll find him in the swimming pool or bugging his children to do their homework.
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