Richard founded the Good Money Guide (previously Good Broker Guide) in 2015 and has been a broker for 20 years most recently at Investors Intelligence and previously a multi-asset derivatives broker at MF Global (Man Financial). Richard started his career working as a private client stockbroker at Walker Crips and Phillip Securities (now King and Shaxson) after interning on the NYMEX oil trading floor in New York and London IPE in 2001 & 2000.
Darren is a veteran of the financial markets with almost 36 years of experience under his belt. He has worked in trading, sales, analytical, and research roles, he has been a regular guest & commentator on financial television channels and publications. During his career, Darren has been fortunate to act for and advise major hedge funds and investment banks as well as HNWI. Darren analyses the markets using a blend of technical and fundamental analysis
Jonathan Davis MCSI has been analysing and writing about financial markets for more than 35 years. Initially, as a business journalist on The Times, The Economist and The Independent, more recently as a qualified professional investor and founder/editor of the Investment-Reader.com website. Jonathan has also written several books on investing including Money Makers, Investing With Anthony Bolton, Templeton’s Way With Money and The Investment Trusts Handbook.
Simon Young was a journalist for 20 years, becoming a news editor on national newspapers including the Sunday Express. He went on to lead the teams at one of the world’s largest online companies before setting up Magic Word Media.
Jackson has over 15 years experience as a financial analyst. Previously a director of Stockcube Research as head of Investors Intelligence providing market timing advice and research to some of the world’s largest institutions and hedge funds.
Expertise: Global macroeconomic investment strategy, statistical backtesting, asset allocation, and cross-asset research.
Jackson has a PhD in Finance from Durham University.
Emily Perryman is a freelance financial journalist with over a decade of experience writing for national, consumer and trade publications. She specialises in investments, pensions, property, fintech and tax. Emily was previously the personal finance editor at Shares magazine.
Simon Read is a money writer and broadcaster. He writes for the BBC, the Evening Standard, Daily Mirror and appears as a money commentator on several tv and radio stations. He is Moneywise Magazine’s Fight For Your Rights columnist and writes a monthly column for Financial Adviser magazine.
Robin Powell is a freelance journalist. He blogs as The Evidence-Based Investor, and you can find him on Twitter @RobinJPowell.
Tom Cropper is a financial journalist with work which has appeared in titles such as the Guardian, Euromoney and many others.
Ruth Jackson-Kirby has been writing about personal finance for 15 years. She writes for The Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping, MoneyWeek and Moneywise.
Hannah Smith is a freelance financial journalist with 14 years’ experience covering asset management, personal finance and business. She writes for a range of consumer and B2B publications including Money Observer, Shares, MoneyWeek, FE Trustnet, Morningstar, Investment Week and has broadcast experience producing for BBC Radio 5 Live Business.
Based in London, Edward is an investment writer whose clients include a broad range of financial services firms located all over the world. Prior to launching his own investment writing business, Edward spent 15 years working in private wealth management and institutional asset management, both in the UK and in Australia. Edward holds a Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne, as well as the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and the highly-regarded Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.