Philip Augar

Philip Augar is a British author, and was an equities broker in the City of London, for twenty years from the 1970s, first with NatWest and J. Henry Schroder, and was part of the team that negotiated the sale of Schroders investment bank to Citigroup.

Augar holds a doctorate in History and is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management.

Works

• " Rajan roundtable: Break up the banks", The Economist, April 9th 2009
• "National interests". The New Statesman. 8 January 2010. http://www.newstatesman.com/banking-and-insurance/2010/01/nationalised-banks-banking. 
• "A Better Way to Break Up the Banks", Harvard Business Review, February 4, 2010

• The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of London's Investment Banks (Penguin, 2000)
• The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Played the Free Market Game (Penguin, 2005).
• Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade, Bodley Head 2009

Reviews

...That is made good by Philip Augar, a former investment banker who has made it his mission to reveal the systemic and destructive way that British finance works. He understands both the people and the processes - and Chasing Alpha is his best book yet. He even devotes a chapter to Brown's Mansion House speech.