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…

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 …

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'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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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 …

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…

In the short term, the EU may be able to avoid the worst of the US-led credit crunch and economic downturn, says Simon Nixon. But bureaucracy and secu…

The FSA has released a doom-laden warning of dark days ahead for the property market. Could it be a buy signal? asks Simon Nixon.

Once, hedge funds seemed like the part of the financial system most likely to trigger a global crisis. Yet the current crisis has seen them really com…

From poor regulation to inept communication, mistakes were made at every stage of the Northern Rock crisis. Simon Nixon explains why the run on the ba…

There are plenty of countries in the world that offer all the characteristics you would look for in a safe haven, says Simon Nixon. And you'll find th…

The skies over Britain may have cleared, but in the City the storm rages on. However, whilst most believe that there is more fallout from the US housi…

Is the flotation of asset managers such as Fortress and Blackstone a sign that we've reached the top of the market? Unlikely - this is no 'Netscape' m…

Blue chips Barclays and Vodafone have both been badly bruised by run-ins with activist investors. But does the City's old guard have a right to compla…

Hazel Blears (left) made a good point when she called for the government to do more to encourage philanthropy. But what, exactly, can be done? asks Si…

European politicians including President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel (pictured) are determined to reign in hedge funds. The industry has little to f…

Whilst relations between Russia and the West may be at the chilliest since the Cold War, economically they are hotter than ever. But Simon Nixon wonde…

There's little doubt that the next big thing in hedge funds, the 130/30 funds, will make a fortune, but for whom? Simon Nixon reports on the latest de…