About the Author

Nicholas Dunbar grew up in London and trained as a physicist at Manchester, Cambridge, and Harvard universities. He was inspired to become a financial journalist by university friends who took their mathematical skills from academia onto the trading floors of investment banks.

From 1998 until 2009, Dunbar was technical editor of Risk magazine, a specialist derivatives publication. In 2005, he launched Life & Pensions, a sister publication to Risk aimed at the insurance and pensions industry.

During this time, Dunbar wrote a series of exclusive stories on derivatives blowups, which cemented his reputation as an investigative journalist, and in 2007 he won the State Street award for institutional financial journalism. He has also ...

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