Andrew Brigden

Andrew Brigden is a partner at Fathom Consulting and its Chief Economist. Since leaving the Bank of England to join Fathom some 20 years ago, he has carried out research and consultancy relating to a wide range of issues confronting the global economy and its financial markets.

Throughout his career, Andrew has been involved in building econometric models. While at the Bank of England, he developed models that described the relationships between money, credit and expenditure in different sectors of the economy. Some of this work was published in peer-reviewed journals including the Manchester School. He developed and continues to maintain FIRM-DB – Fathom’s model of a typical UK defined-benefit pension scheme. This model has been used both to advise individual schemes, and to produce original research for clients active in the DB pensions landscape. He has substantial experience of presenting complex ideas simply and clearly and is often invited to speak at investor conferences.

Andrew leads Fathom’s research effort, and over time has helped formulate and develop Fathom’s distinctive, sometimes out-of-consensus calls, on topics ranging from the causes and consequences of the ongoing productivity crisis, through to the factors underpinning record valuations in the UK housing market.