Edward Chancellor

John "Edward" Horner Chancellor (born 1962) is a financial historian, journalist, and investment strategist. He is the author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[1] In 2005, he published Crunch-Time for Credit?, an analysis of the credit boom in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Financial Analysts Journal has described him as "one of the great financial writers of our era."[2]

Chancellor is the son of John Paget Chancellor (1927–2014), editor of the partwork Knowledge, and the brother of actress Anna Chancellor. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with first class honours in Modern History, and from St Antony's College, Oxford with a Masters of Philosophy in Modern History. He is a former deputy US editor for Breakingviews.com, and worked for Lazard Brothers in the early 1990s. From 2008 to 2014 he was a senior member of the allocation team at the Boston investment firm GMO.[3] He is a columnist for Reuters' financial commentary website Breakingviews,[4] and contributes to several other publications, including the Wall Street Journal, MoneyWeek, the New York Review of Books, and the Financial Times.


Awards

Works

As author
  • Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999, ISBN 978-0-374-13858-5
  • Crunch Time for Credit, Harriman House, 2005 ISBN 978-1-89759-753-8
  • "Ponzi Nation", Institutional Investor, February 2007
  • "Wall Street is firmly in Wonderland", Reuters, July 2020

As editor
  • Capital Account: A Money Manager's Reports from a Turbulent Decade (1993-2002), Thomson/Texere, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58799-180-6
  • Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle: A Money Manager’s Reports 2002-15, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st ed. 2015, ISBN 978-1137571649

References
  1. "Notable Books". The New York Times. 1999-12-05. p. 66. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  2. Bernstein, William J. (2016). "Capital Returns: Investing through the Capital Cycle: A Money Manager's Reports 2002–15 (a review)". Financial Analysts Journal. 11 (1). Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. "GMO LLC - Asset Allocation". www.gmo.com. Archived from the original on 2005-11-24.
  4. "Journalists – Breakingviews". Breakingviews. Reuters. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
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