Robin Wigglesworth
Robin Wigglesworth is the Global Finance Correspondent for the Financial Times. He focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing and finance more broadly across the world, with a particular focus on technological disruption and quantitative investing, and writing longer-form features, analyses, profiles and columns. He also covers macroeconomics, finance, and international markets. Additionally, Robert is the author of Trillions, the book on the past, present and future of passive investing. In Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever, Robert examines the incredible history of index funds, and how the passive investing-phenomenon is reshaping even capitalism itself.
Robin Wigglesworth Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Global Finance Correspondent
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Nordic Economics and Politics Correspondent
Academic History
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History of International Relations
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Bachelor's Degree, Journalism and Contemporary History
EARLY CAREER
Robin is also FT's US Markets Editor where he oversees coverage of US stocks, bonds, commodities, forex, derivatives, and asset management.
He joined the FT as a Gulf correspondent in June 2008, and covered the Arab Spring in Bahrain and Libya for the paper.
He was FT's capital markets correspondent, focusing particularly on countries in financial and economic distress.
MEDIA
He speaks on Wall Street's history and future, as technology reshapes every facet of the financial system.
Robin has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.