Dan Coatsworth is AJ Bell's Head of Markets. Dan has been with the company since December 2012 and has more than 18 years' experience in the industry, following the markets and all things investing. He has a degree in Corporate Communications from Southampton Solent University.
Dan is involved in a lot of the content published by AJ Bell, which includes; providing market commentary, starring in our educational videos, writing for Shares Magazine and co-presenting our Money and Markets podcast, as well as hosting and presenting at events for customers – both in person and online.
Dan’s passion lies with educating customers all about investing and staying informed about market events. He previously worked for Teletext on the business and personal finance desks which taught him the importance of telling a story in as few words as possible. He has also appeared as a business commentator on Times Radio and LBC News and written investment-related articles for The Telegraph, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday and The Week.
A fun fact Dan learned about investing early on was to not get caught up on the hype around certain stocks. He found this out himself when the first share he bought was a company trying to recover copper from a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean… this sounded exciting but sadly didn’t make him any money! Outside of work, Dan enjoys swimming and going to live gigs.
28 November 2025
Daily market update: FTSE 100 steady, Whitbread, Burberry, Mitchells & ButlersThe FTSE 100 looks set to end the week in decent fashion and US futures point to post-Thanksgiving gains when Wall Street opens for business.
UK housebuilders remain in decent fettle after the Budget – which didn’t contain any nasty surprises in terms of property taxes, bar the so-called ‘mansion tax’.
The exception to the sector’s positivity is...
25 November 2025
Daily market update: Domino’s Pizza, Hilton Foods and Treatt, KingfisherUK stocks are shaking off a dicey end to last week as increased hopes of a pre-Christmas interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve give stocks on both sides of the Atlantic a boost.
Tech stocks powered the recovery on Wall Street yesterday and fostered hope of a Santa Rally as we approach the beginning of December. Google-owner Alphabet is closing...
21 November 2025
Daily market update: markets go back into reverse, Babcock, ASOSRelief around Nvidia’s results didn’t last long as investors couldn’t shake their fears that the AI boom might have got ahead of itself.
There is a lingering concern that the AI revolution might take longer than expected to truly transform the way companies do business. People in the late 1990s were right to predict the internet would change the...
20 November 2025
Nvidia reassures on AI trend, but fears over tech sector overspending may not go awayNvidia’s results on 19 November had the potential to be a make-or-break moment for global financial markets. Any disappointment could have fuelled concerns around an AI bubble poised to burst. Fortunately, Nvidia has brought the party back to life, with suggestions that everything is going fine with the business.
Demand for its products remains...
14 November 2025
Daily market update: gilt yields, DFS, Landsec, PPHE Hotel GroupWall Street gloom has spread across European and Asian markets like a contagious disease.
Markets are down across the board as investors fret about cracks in the narrative that’s driven the mother of all tech rallies over the past few years. Investors are worried about rich equity valuations and how billions of dollars are being spent on AI just at...
14 November 2025
How to get children interested in saving and investingWhether you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or a close friend to someone who is a mum or dad, there are many ways you can get children interested in investing.
12 November 2025
What a share price jump or slump tells you about a CEO hireThe announcement of a new chief executive can have a pronounced impact on a company’s share price, good or bad. Guinness owner Diageo hiring former Tesco head Dave Lewis as its chief executive drove its share price up 5.2% on the day of the announcement.
That might not sound out of the ordinary until you realise the change in the company’s market...
12 November 2025
The pros and cons of income-focused ETFsWhile global equity tracker funds such as ETFs are firm favourites among everyday investors due to their simplicity and low costs, passive income products are less common in the average portfolio. That might change as more investors discover the options available.
Historically, investors gravitated towards actively managed funds in the search for...
7 November 2025
The path out of the pandemicSunday 9 November 2025 marks the fifth anniversary of a defining moment in stock market history. Pfizer/ BioNTech’s announcement of the first effective covid-19 vaccine gave investors confidence that the world could recover from a major pandemic.
News of the vaccine breathed new life into stock markets around the world, particularly in the UK...
5 November 2025
Marks & Spencer mounts a comeback after profit hit by cyberattackMarks & Spencer has laid bare the full impact of a gruelling cyber-attack on its earnings. Profits have nosedived as shoppers were unable to buy everything they wanted during a catastrophic summer for the retailer.
A £100 million insurance payout will help to soften the blow, yet there are bigger issues at hand which need to be resolved.
Its...
