Personal Investment: financial planning in an uncertain world

About A. ShipmanAlan ShipmanAndrew TriggJonquil LoweMariana Mazzucato

MARIANA MAZZUCATO is Professor of Economics of Innovation at The Open University. She is the coordinator of a European Commission collaborative project on Finance Innovation and Growth and Director of The Open University's research centre on Innovation Knowledge and Development. Her work on the relationship between technological innovation and stock price volatility has been published in various journals. She is the author of Firm Size Innovation and Market Structure: The Evolution of Market Concentration and Instability (Edward Elgar 2000) and co-editor of Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: Pharma-Biotech (Cambridge University Press 2006). JONQUIL LOWE is a Lecturer in Personal Finance at The Open University and a personal finance practitioner specialising in consumer research and financial capability resources. Her recent book publications include The Pension Handbook (Which? 2006) Save and Invest (Which? 2008) The Personal Finance Handbook (Child Poverty Action Group 2009) and with Sara Williams The Financial Times Guide to Personal Tax (Pearson Education 2009). ALAN SHIPMAN is a Lecturer in Economics at The Open University. A former emerging-markets analyst and consultant his publications include The Market Revolution (Routledge 1999) The Globalization Myth (Icon 2002) and Knowledge Monopolies (Imprint Academic 2006). ANDREW TRIGG is Senior Lecturer in Economics at The Open University. He is co-editor of Economics and Changing Economies (Thomson 1996) and Microeconomics: Neoclassical and Institutionalist Perspectives on Economic Behaviour (Thomson 2001); and author of Marxian Reproduction Schema: Money and Aggregate Demand in a Capitalist Economy (Routledge 2006).