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About Oliver Haill

Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s. He started out as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor, focusing on AIM companies and small caps, before becoming a columnist and then head of research a few years later. He joined Proactive after a few years of freelancing, where he worked for the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters Sports, London Olympic News Service, Rugby World Cup News Service, Gracenote… Learn more

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Our proactive financial news and online broadcast teams deliver fast, accessible, informative and actionable business and financial news content to a global investor audience. All of our content is independently produced by our experienced and skilled teams of news journalists.

The proactive information team covers the world’s major financial and investment centres with offices and studios in London, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney and Perth.

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Our human content creators have decades of valuable expertise and experience. The team also has access to technologies that they use to facilitate and improve workflows.

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