Simon Nixon

The government’s benefit reforms have been plagued with disasters since their introduction in 2013. The Covid-19 crisis, however, has revealed a posit…

The shadow chancellor has looked out of his depth for much of the credit crunch. But getting rid of him won't resolve the Tories' main dilemma: how to…

Ideas thought to have been consigned to history are now being presented by politicians as the answer to the world's problems. Here, Simon Nixon picks …

The hedge fund industry is heading for an almighty shake-out, says Simon Nixon. At least one third look set to disappear - and the rest must adapt to …

Simon Nixon has sympathy with Gordon Brown's attempts to stop newly-nationalised banks from repossessing people's homes. But the sooner house prices f…

It seems the media is fast becoming public enemy number one. But far from exaggerating the risks, says Simon Nixon, most journalists are actually down…

It's hard to quibble with the UK's bank bail-out, says Simon Nixon. The plan is pretty smart. But we must take with a pinch of salt Alistair Darling's…

The City is already heavily enough regulated. The FSA's problem isn't lack of powers, says Simon Nixon, but its failure to use the powers it already h…

Simon Nixon says we should have more compassion for soon-to-be-bankrupt City bankers who've lost their bonuses and risk having to flog off their yacht…

Many of the challenges we're facing today can be traced back to the 1930s and the responses to the Great Depression, says Simon Nixon. But will today'…

Now is the time of year when investors consider changes to their portfolios. This year, that task is more difficult than ever. The credit crunch did n…

The government is desperately hunting for the magic bullet to end the credit crisis, says Simon Nixon, Meanwhile, major job cuts are inevitable in the…

Despite many people giving Russia the benefit of the doubt when deciding where to put their money, Simon Nixon remains cautious about investing in Rus…

Simon Nixon is not impressed with the Chancellor's desperate bid to reboot the housing market and urges him to stop meddling.

Simon Nixon doesn’t believe that the credit crunch is anywhere near over after mid-July's stock market rally. Here, he explains why.

The outrageous thing about the UK's public finances, says Simon Nixon, is how it has kept some enormous liabilities out of the official figures: PFI, …

As governments bail-out failed banks, the financial world has realised that politics is not irrelevant. So their economic plans are now coming under c…

Desperate for capital and with share prices in free-fall, the UK banking sector is clearly in a bad way. But some people think banks are a good, cheap…

Trying to call the outcome of the credit crunch is a fool's errand, says Simon Nixon. We all hope for a shallow downturn; the truth is it could end in…

Zimbabwe may have been brought to ruin under Mugabe, but many other countries in the region have achieved a remarkable transformation over the past de…

The FSA's new regulations on short-selling mean disclosure rules are far more onerous for shorts than longs. And that amounts to manipulation of the m…

Ben Bernanke has been more upbeat on the US economy recently, downplaying a recession and hinting at inflation-busting rate-hikes. But while it may su…

The aftershocks of Bradford and Bingley's botched rights issue will shake the rest of the UK banking sector, the economy and the City's reputation, sa…

Dirty Russian money threatens to undermine London's reputation, built on respect for the law and mutual trust. And Russia's dominance of the energy ma…

With an ageing population, millions of Britons unwilling to work and thousands more emigrating every year, the last thing this country needs is fewer …

It’s been fashionable over the last few years to joke that the UK has become a giant hedge fund. And we know what happens to them when investors lose …

Britain needs a government that can take difficult decisions. But there’s not much in the Tory record over the last year to suggest they have grasped …

It was good to see Mervyn King launching an attack on the City bonus culture. But reforming the City’s incentive structures won’t be easy, says Simon …

Investors are hoping that the bad news is out of the way for the banks. But we are still in the very early stages of the credit crunch, and the long t…

Gordon Brown’s recent breakfast with Britain’s top bankers to discuss the mortgage crisis was, by all accounts, a dispiriting affair, writes Simon Nix…

The names that used to dominate the square mile have rolled up in successive waves of bank mergers into one of the giant bulge-bracket banks that domi…

The euphoria that greeted the latest rally in bank stocks has led many in the City to start talking excitedly about whether the worst of the credit cr…

The financial services industry has never had a reputation for saintliness. But its recent behaviour suggests that it is taking arrogance, cynicism an…

Some have gone quietly whilst others have blown up in spectular style. And there are plenty of good reasons why more hedge funds are destined to go th…

Should the Fed intervene or allow a crash? Simon Nixon unravels the City's goings-on and wonders where it will all end.

Hanging out with the private-equity crowd at the SuperReturns conference is a surreal experience: everyone accepts that this year will be a stinker, b…