Andrew Craig: How to Own the World.
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Show Notes:
Andrew studied Economics and International Politics at the University of Birmingham, Congressman on Capitol Hill. Here he was lucky enough to research various topical policy graduating in 1997. His first job took him to Washington DC to work as an intern for a US issues and write a number of speeches for the Congressman.
On returning to the UK, he began his career in finance on the Eurobond desk of SBC Warburg (now UBS) but moved to equitie two years later to join the UBS smaller companies team at the end of 1999. Andrew subsequently headed smaller company sales On returning to the UK, he began his career in finance on the Eurobond desk of SBC Warburg (now UBS) but moved to equities and sales trading at Williams de Broë and then held senior equity sales positions with Credit Agricole Cheuvreux and SEB in London and New York from 2007. In addition to his responsibilities at Plain English Finance, he has also been a partner at boutique life sciences investment bank, WG Partners, since January 2015.
During his career in finance, he has met with the senior management teams of well over one thousand companies and with several hundred professional investors. Andrew has regularly been involved in high profile stock market transactions. These have included the Kingdom of Sweden’s sales of Nordea Bank AB in 2013 (totalling $7.6 billion) and the stock market flotation of several dozen companies including the likes of: easyJet, HMV, Burberry, Campari, Carluccio’s, the Carbon Trust, lastminute.com.
Since founding Plain English Finance in 2011, Andrew has appeared in numerous national and specialist financial publications Michael Winterbottom’s 2015 film “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and interviewed by Eamonn Holmes for theChannel 5 including: The Mail on Sunday, The Mirror, CityAM, The Spectator, Shares and MoneyWeek magazines, YourMoney, This Is programme “How the other half live”.
The third edition of Andrew’s book has been No. 1 rated on Amazon in categories such as Pensions, Investments and Personal Finance for a good proportion of the last few years. It was the best-selling new finance book in the UK for much of 2019. The book currently enjoys more than 2,000 reviews across Amazon (https://pef.io/buy-htotw-3), Audible (https:// www.audible.co.uk/pd/How-to-Own-the-World-Audiobook/1473695333) and Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43844355-how-to-own- the-world), the significant majority of which at five-stars.
Contact Details:
Twitter - @pef_uk
Facebook - Plain English Finance UK
Website - www.plainenglishfinance.co.uk
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