Simon Bain

Business Correspondent/Personal Finance Editor

Business correspondent and personal finance editor since 1998, four times Scottish financial writer of the year, and once journalist of the year. Likes bringing business personalities to life, responding to unhappy consumers, and investigating bust businesses and the murkier corners of money. Highly commended in the 2013 UK Regional Press Awards.

Business correspondent and personal finance editor since 1998, four times Scottish financial writer of the year, and once journalist of the year. Likes bringing business personalities to life, responding to unhappy consumers, and investigating bust businesses and the murkier corners of money. Highly commended in the 2013 UK Regional Press Awards.

Latest articles from Simon Bain

Robots offer alternative to high advice fees

Would you trust your investment to a robot? A growing army of ‘robo-advisers’ is offering an alternative to personal advice, which is seen as expensive, and to banks, who may not be trusted.

Royal London enjoys auto-enrolment boom

Royal London, the UK’s biggest insurance mutual which employs over 1000 in Edinburgh, has continued to benefit from the government’s pension reforms with another big rise in new business.

Car giant says Brexit vote bump in the road

Lookers, owner of Scotland’s 120-year-old car retailer Taggarts, has said the Brexit vote was a ‘bump in the road’ but car sales are as currently as strong as they were a year ago.