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Matthew Vincent is the personal finance editor of the Financial Times. In this role, he edits the Weekend Money section and presents the FT Money Show podcast, as well as writing for the daily newspaper and FT Wealth magazine.

He was previously editor of Investors Chronicle, where he presented the award-winning online video The Market Programme, and launched the BBC-FT standalone magazine ‘How to be Better Off’. He began his career on the consumer finance magazine Moneywise, which he went on to edit for five years, and has since written columns for The Spectator and presented TV programmes for BBC2.

E-mail matthew.vincent@ft.com

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Fund managers lack Dutch courage

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