Dan Mccrum

About

Dan writes about listed companies. His previous work at the FT includes helping to expose accounting problems at Quindell, the world's largest listed law firm, which pretended to be a technology company; Globo, the software group which had pretend customers; Slater & Gordon, the Australian listed law firm which pretended it was good at buying other ones; and Folli Follie, the Greek trinket tragedy where $1bn of sales just vanished.In more than a decade at the FT he's also been editor of FT Alphaville, Capital Markets Editor, worked as the FT’s Investment Correspondent in New York, and had stints writing for the Lex Column. Before that Dan worked briefly at the Investors Chronicle, and has at one point or another carried furniture, sold kids books on doorsteps, and painted but not really decorated.He also spent four years loitering in Citigroup’s equity research department where he picked up a few ideas about the value of luck, timing and a catchy pitch.Send him ideas or even call him up, he’ll write about almost anything (not gold).