The City Grump
The City Grump, having recently turned 64, has spent north of 30 years in the City of London. He started as a stockbroker's analyst but after some years he decided he was too grumpy to continue with the sell side of things so he moved to the buy side and became a fund manager for the next 20 years, selling his own business in the 1990s. Post the millennium, he found himself in turn chairing a stockbroker, a financial PR company, and an Exchange. He still keeps his hand in, chairing a brace of VCTs and investing personally in startups.
Author posts
Why 'the Establishment' needs to learn humility
10 min read
The Maybot: Artificial, yes. Intelligent, no
4 min read
MiFID II – The mother of all EU turkeys
7 min read
2017: The year of economic naivety
7 min read
Cheap labour is the curse of our times
6 min read
The Christmas Story – Brussels style
3 min read
Gatwick versus the people
13 min read
The failure of the Davos elite
7 min read
Windsor Holdings Plc. Trading Statement
4 min read
Knowledge is power and power corrupts
4 min read
Is Cameron spending our money well?
4 min read
The Diary of George Osborne age 41 ¾
4 min read
Crowdfunding vs Nanny
5 min read
Equity investors are back in town
3 min read
What’s happened to your pension?
4 min read
Good values are good for business... right?
3 min read
The return of the dividend?
6 min read
Alice in our 21st-century Wonderland
6 min read
Banks mis-selling to SMEs: an update
1 min read
Banks mis-selling to SMEs: will the FSA act?
5 min read
Has the FT given up on British businesses?
4 min read
Don't finance your business with debt
4 min read
2011: the year of smoke and mirrors
6 min read
What on earth would Margaret Thatcher think?
4 min read
Mervyn King: More Titanic than QE2
3 min read
News Corp: a culture run amuck
2 min read
Equity financing RIP?
3 min read
Can an affair damage your business?
4 min read
The Queen's AGM statement
4 min read
Osborne should back quality not quantity
4 min read
Why a big bank split-up makes sense
3 min read