The Financial Times launched Alphaville in 2006 as a “daily news and commentary service giving financial market professionals the information they need, when they need it.”
Finance blogging has changed a lot since then but Alphaville’s purpose has not. We aim to be read by an audience that’s smart, informed, questioning, open-minded, sometimes obsessive and occasionally unserious.
Alphaville seeks to cover everything in financial markets through a wide-angle lens. From microstructure to M&A, corporate fraud and big-idea macroeconomics, if it interests you it should interest us. And if it doesn’t interest you, we’ll be trying our hardest to change that.
Unlike the FT, Alphaville does not cost anything. All you need to do to read us is to register with your email (look for the “free limited access” option in the menu). You can follow Alphaville on Twitter and by setting a story alert on your myFT profile . You can email the team at alphaville@ft.com or individually at the addresses below.
Here’s the team.
Louis Ashworth
Louis joined FT Alphaville in September 2022. This coincided with a sharp sell-off in UK assets, but he insists that correlation is not causation. Previously, he worked at the Telegraph, where he covered economics and markets. He’s interested in macro- and micro-economics, path dependency, political economy and [Björk voice] human behaviour, but also dodgy dealings and unusual business arrangements. Louis has been described (by himself) as one of the great Photoshop talents of his generation. louis.ashworth@ft.com
Alexandra Scaggs
Alex returned to FTAV in 2022 after writing for Barron’s about bonds and the best places for investors to find yield, and discovering that the best places to find yield were not in the bond market. Alex first joined Alphaville in 2016, weeks before the Brexit vote, but still isn’t entirely confident in her understanding of what Brexit means for the UK. Before that she wrote for Bloomberg and the WSJ. Alex is interested in bonds, private markets, utilities, regulation and market structure, and grudgingly pays attention to cryptocurrencies. alexandra.scaggs@ft.com
Bryce Elder
Bryce is Alphaville’s City editor and has been a sporadic contributor to the blog since 2008, when he joined the FT as UK equities reporter. Before that he wrote about UK equities at Morningstar. Before that he wrote about UK equities at The Times. Before that he wrote about UK equities at Bloomberg. Before that he wrote about UK equities at AFX News. Before that he did not write about UK equities. bryce.elder@ft.com
Robin Wigglesworth
Robin is the editor of Alphaville, before which he did a variety of financial, markets and investing roles for the FT, after joining the paper from Bloomberg as a Gulf correspondent in 2008. He once wrote a book about passive investing, which he has very actively told everyone about ever since. Robin has soft spots for quants, sovereign debt restructuring, Islamic finance and the Eurovision Song Contest, and lives in Oslo, Norway. robin.wigglesworth@ft.com
Craig Coben
Craig is contributing writer at Alphaville. In his 25 years of investment banking he held various senior positions, including global head of equity capital markets and vice chairman of global capital markets at Bank of America. His only previous media experience has involved co-hosting Cottage Talk, a podcast for Fulham FC fans.
Toby Nangle
Toby is a contributing writer at Alphaville and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. He spent 25 years in asset management but left the industry in 2022 having singularly failed to get it to stop managing money for sovereign clients engaging in crimes against humanity. He now continues this quixotic task from afar. Toby geeks out on pensions, long-run data, the asset management industry and Flourish.