Yuri Bender is a journalist covering private banking, asset management and capital markets. He has launched and edited several magazines and websites at the Financial Times group and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Professional Wealth Management global magazine, website and events hub. He moderates panel discussions, conferences and round tables on financial, business and cultural issues in Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia.
He has reported from Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine for the FT Wealth magazine and writes regularly for FTfm, the fund management section of the FT newspaper.
He studied Investment Management at the London Business School and International Relations at Cambridge University, writing his thesis on the economics of armed conflict, with special emphasis on eastern Ukraine.
Yuri gives talks and lectures on journalism and media, technology and start-ups, asset management, private banking and international relations. He contributes to the ‘Tuesday Club’ wealth management think-tank in London, where he is a regular guest speaker.
