Andrew Craig graduated in Economics and International Politics in 1997. His first job took him to Washington DC where he worked for a US Congressman on Capitol Hill and where he was lucky enough to research various topical policy 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 equities two years later to join the UBS smaller companies team at the end of 1999. Andrew subsequently headed smaller company sales and sales trading at UK stockbroker, Williams de Broe¨, and then held senior equity sales positions with Credit Agricole Cheuvreux and SEB in London and New York from 2007. Andrew founded personal finance website, www.plainenglishfinance.co.uk in January 2011 and has also run PEF's global investment fund (the VT Plain English Finance Global Multi Asset fund) since launching it in September 2017.
In addition to his responsibilities at Plain English Finance, he is a partner at boutique life sciences investment bank, WG Partners. During his career in finance, Andrew has met with the senior management teams of over one thousand companies and with several hundred professional investors and has regularly been involved in a large number of 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, Burberry, Campari, Carluccio's, the Carbon Trust, lastminute.com. Since founding Plain English Finance, Andrew has appeared in numerous national and specialist financial publications including: The Mail on Sunday, The Mirror, CityAM, The Spectator, Shares and MoneyWeek magazines, YourMoney, This Is Money and Money Observer. He has been interviewed on Bloomberg and Shares Radio and on IG TV, was featured in Russell Brand and Michael Winterbottom's 2015 film "The Emperor's New Clothes" and interviewed by Eamonn Holmes for the Channel 5 programme "How the other half live". Andrew does not claim to be a financial "guru", but he is confident he can help you.
At the most basic level his view is simply that you really owe it to yourself to learn enough about money and investment to get your financial house in order. The rewards for doing this are life-changing. Learning about money is also nowhere near as difficult as you may previously have thought. You can learn how to do a perfectly good job with your money just as easily as you learnt how to drive, for example. Andrew would argue that it is crazy that nearly everyone accepts that it is normal and entirely possible to learn how to drive but most people think that learning about money is too hard or just not for them. Real financial literacy should be taught at every school in the country. To that end, he knows that you will find the information in How to Own the World truly life changing. Andrew lives in south west London with his wife, Rachel and baby daughter, Ella.