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Andrew Hill is an Associate Editor of the FT. He has been City Editor of the FT and editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance since September 2006.
He was the FT’s Financial Editor from June 2005 to September 2006, with overall responsibility for coverage of companies and markets. Before becoming Financial Editor, he was the FT’s Comment & Analysis Editor, in charge of the paper’s opinion and features pages.
From 1999 to 2003, he was the FT’s New York Bureau Chief. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as foreign news editor, UK companies reporter and correspondent in Brussels and Milan. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1987 with a first-class degree in English.
He was named Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.
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Ernie and friends are too popular for our own good
The shadow of unfair competition has loomed over the retail banking market since the nationalisation of Northern Rock. But could the biggest threat really come from old Ernie and his friends at National Savings and Investments
Colgate-Reckitt: a kitchen colossus that makes sense
The market frisson about a potential merger between the UK’s Reckitt Benckiser and US toothpaste king Colgate-Palmolive has a certain logic
Good to grow: why Bolland is right choice for M&S
Simultaneous resolution of succession questions at Marks and Spencer and ITV is like being blitzed by retailers’ pre-Christmas advertising campaigns
Regal fine punishes victims of scandal again
There’s a palpable sense that justice has not been done at Regal Petroleum. The oil and gas group has been censured and fined for misleading the market about its Greek oil interests between 2003 and 2005
Mayhew is the key to keeping Cazenove’s culture safe
If JPMorgan makes Cazenove’s bankers nervous, the seniors, such as David Mayhew, the evergreen Cazenove chairman, may simply step aside, while the juniors will be fair game for headhunters
BA pension trustees are flying into a stormy debate
Willie Walsh has handed British Airways’ pension trustees and the Pensions Regulator a superjumbo-sized dilemma: agree a solution to BA’s pension deficit that is “satisfactory” to the group’s betrothed, Iberia, or take the blame for wrecking the marriage
Tories must find a way to save Turner for the nation
If a merger of the FSA and the Bank of England’s prudential supervision functions goes ahead, that leaves a big question: what happens to FSA chairman Adair Turner? It’s clear that for the good of the world financial system, Lord Turner ought to stay at the regulatory reform table
Reed and digest: lessons in succession
We know Reed Elsevier’s transfer from Sir Crispin Davis to Ian Smith was ‘seamless’ – but nothing can smooth over a transition to the wrong person
Financial engineers have not stood test of time
Sir John Rose would have been forgiven for standing up at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce on Tuesday night and simply saying: ’I told you so’
Kraft decides to string it out rather than bid it up
Kraft’s formal offer for Cadbury is virtually unchanged from the unsolicited approach first revealed in September. In fact, it contained fewer fireworks than on Bonfire Night at the Health and Safety Executive
