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The NHS ransomware affair highlighted the need for ever better cyber security. David C Stevenson tips the best funds to profit.

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The NHS ransomware affair now seems like a dim and distant memory for most of us, but it left a big impression on me. Even though I'm a starry-eyed liberal on most things, I have a very well hidden "prepper" sensibility. Preppers are a weird crew, who believe that Western civilisation is more fragile than we think and that it could all cave in with the right attack and thus we should always "prepare" for the worst.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.