Alex Edmans

1. My new book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It, will be published by Penguin in April. lnkd.in/eDbujwUd

@AffordAnything Thanks for your interest! My publisher (Penguin Random House) reached out to you a few weeks ago offering an advance copy - please DM me if you can't find the email.

@aedmans Would love to read an advance copy

Just received my spiral-bound copy of The Madness of Markets. I've never enjoyed writing anything more than this and I can't wait for it to come out in September.

The tin-eared hubris of posts like this. You’d think that if Reeves had been successful, she could simply write: “It’s been the privilege of my life. I tried my best. Good luck to my successor.” Instead, we get this self-congratulatory drivel, contradicted by almost every reply underneath. It’s exactly this disconnect that leaves people disillusioned with politics and those who make decisions that affect all our lives.

@RachelReevesMP "The economy today is stronger, fairer and more resilient" Bond mkt says "say what?"

@RachelReevesMP Yeh you've done really well 🙄

.@bphillipsonMP claims that "standards in reading, writing, spelling, punctuation, grammar, maths and science have all been improving" – when she just lowered the pass mark. Yet more spin and lies from a politician who addresses inequality by making everyone equally worse-off.

The FTSE 100 has opened 0.5% lower, despite UK growth hitting a 13-month high. Yahoo Finance partly attributes it to "last night's England loss". Investor sentiment matters. #TheMadnessofMarkets uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ftse-100-…

@MerrynSW Indeed. A £10k annual liability at a 5% discount rate (conservative, as it's higher than the gilt yield) gives a liability of £200k in present value terms. The tax wipes off 10% of the value of the house.

Mansion tax. You have a £2m house. You add a £10k annual liability to it. Now it is no longer worth £2m. So not liable for the mansion tax. How does this work?

"An entertaining writer ... Edmans summarizes the field of behavioral finance research with a refreshingly light touch". Grateful for this review of The Madness of Markets by Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. jasonzweig.com/some-summer-re…

My 30s video on Rational Sustainability has now surpassed 3m views. It aims to encourage balanced conversations on sustainability: recognising its potential to create value, while being mindful of its limitations, diminishing returns, and trade-offs. youtube.com/watch?v=x8TKbp…

My beef with Gary Stevenson isn't the wealth tax. It's his attack on young, working-class people. One of my friends is the co-founder of a UK startup worth £30-40m. He's from a working-class background. He explained: 'I was a good student. But no one told me I could start a business. 'Working class kids get less encouragement to be entrepreneurs. Even the brightest ones.' This stuck with me. The UK's core problem is a cynical, negative attitude toward wealth, entrepreneurship and risk takers. Every other problem is downstream. And this hurts working-class kids the most. Kids from extreme wealth live in a social bubble. They are insulated from any attempts to police and belittle their ambitions and income. Gary Stevenson has done nothing to change this. Instead, he's kicked the ladder away and made life harder for kids from working-class backgrounds. These kids need to meet successful founders from working-class backgrounds who succeeded and built businesses, products and jobs. Instead, Gary tells them, 'Give up. You can't make it in life, so don't bother trying... 'But remember to buy my book.' I struggle to think of a nastier and more damaging lie.

"Síndrome de eliminación" #Mundial Alex Edmans @aedmans London Business School @LBS fue de los 1° en plantear que una emoción capaz de disparar la tasa de infartos podía afectar a bolsa Cae si estás afuera, descuenta el pase de ronda 👇 @pibeacasuso elobservador.com.uy/espana/miradas…

🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch says Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is a "disgrace to people who grew up on a council estate" as she attacks the VAT policy on private school fees "She doesn't want to talk about the lives she's ruined... it's all about her"

"The Education Secretary grew up in poverty." And the Chancellor was British U14 Girls' Chess Champion. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Why not commit to appointing the best people for the job? It would be equally absurd to require the England football team to reflect the racial makeup of the UK. What matters is diversity of skills (defenders, midfielders, strikers) not superficial characteristics.

Durham High School, a private school with 281 pupils, is closing. “For 142 proud years, Durham High School has stood solidly as a beacon of hope for girls who were once denied the education enjoyed by their male counterparts. These halls have rung with laughter for 142 years”.

I'm delighted that Katherine Garrett-Cox CBE has been appointed the incoming Chair of The Investor Forum, effective 1 September 2026. Katherine has 36 years of experience in the asset management industry and is a passionate champion of UK capital markets and long-term stewardship. She currently serves as CEO of Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd and Chair of both the Clean Air Fund and the CDP. Previously, she was CEO and CIO of Alliance Trust and Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum's 2015 Annual Meeting. I first met Katherine at a 2014 Davos session titled Exploring Our Limits. It was about personal growth rather than finance (one of the speakers was Lewis Pugh, the first person to swim across the North Pole) but it highlighted the long-term thinking and perseverance that characterises Katherine's investment approach. My first TEDx talk, The Social Responsibility of Business, used Alliance Trust (at 15:27) as an example of long-term investing. Families who bought shares in 1888 had passed them down through generations, and many of their descendants still owned them in 2015. £100 invested in 1888, with dividends reinvested, would have grown to £18.5 million by 2015. Full press release here: investorforum.org.uk/press-release-…

@CJames_1969_Au @Alexarmstrong Thanks for sharing the facts!

@Alexarmstrong Show us the game, any of us that know chess will sort this out quickly- here is the truth: maycontainlies.com/was-rachel-ree…

Rachel Reeves, once an under 14’s Chess Champion in the UK (heavily disputed as she never actually won according to Chess records) has sadly lost an amateur game of chess against a local in Ukraine.

Reeves was indeed never the British Girls' Under 14 Champion as she claimed. She won a different tournament with a similar name – rather like confusing the Championship with the Champions League in football. See alexedmans.com/was-rachel-ree… for the facts. She also breaks a very basic rule at 0:27 by moving with one hand and pressing the clock with the other. The laws require the same hand for both, to ensure you've completed your move before starting your opponent's clock. A Chancellor should be judged primarily on her policies, not her chess. But whether to raise taxes, increase welfare, or cut defence is subjective. Whether you were British champion or follow the rules is objective. If you misrepresent the facts and ignore the rules in small things, it inevitably affects trust in the larger things.

@GBVeteranJane Correct. alexedmans.com/was-rachel-ree…

She's a fake all round .... She placed 26th out of only 37 entrants 😂🤣😂🤣in the 1993 British Under-14 Championship won by Emily Howard. in other words a complete loser ,....