About Citywire - Global

How can we help you?

Being a fund selector is harder than ever before. More funds, more strategies to choose from.  Citywire aims to help shine a light on the people who want you to buy their funds.

We talk to the fund managers to discuss their strategies; we examine how good their performance really is and whether they can keep it up. And we involve our audience as well through constant contact with your peers to see what they are doing and what challenges they face.

Why can we help you?

Without sounding too immodest, we think we have the best team of financial journalists around.

There’s more than 25 of them and a large majority of them have taken their exams and are registered as investment advisers with the UK Financial Services Authority.

They have won a stack of awards including the team award for excellence in investment writing from the UK Investment Managers Association every year since 2005.  They’re our version of the Oscars although we manage to keep our eyes dry when we accept the trophies.

We’re also pretty good at providing the information tools you might need. If you visit our Performance Section you’ll find a treasure trove of facts and figures that can help you make the best investment selections.

We’re particularly proud of the way we sort out the best fund managers with our unique Fund manager Ratings. They were our idea and are used by many major fund management houses in their adverts.

You’ll also learn quite a lot from fellow readers via the comments facility and our Forums. They tend to be an opinionated lot. (Money edition only)

So how do we make money?

The site is completely free to read. This is broadly how we earn our money:

• Advertising and sponsorship on the website
• Advertising and sponsorship in our magazines for financial professionals
• Sponsored events attended by financial professionals
• Fund management companies paying us to licence the Citywire Fund Manager Ratings. Note that we never charge them to rate their managers. They only pay us if they want to license the Ratings.

How many people work at Citywire?

Right now (June 2010) we’ve around 100 people in departments ranging from editorial to sales, IT, events, accounts and production.

What do they look like?

Here’s a random selection of Citywire faces.

Who owns Citywire?

A lot of the people who work here own shares in the company. Also Thomson Reuters, the world renowned news agency and financial information group, bought a quarter of our company in 2001.