Dwight Cass

Biography and Professional History

Dwight specializes in risk, corporate finance, alternatives, fintech, general business trends, and financial markets, and he has broad experience managing complex projects. Dwight is an author for the Traders Union website.

Dwight was a financial columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times during the Great Financial Crisis. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Worth, a personal finance magazine for the wealthy, and as Editor of Risk, the premiere global publication about derivatives, risk management, and quantitative finance, based in London.

He has also served as Managing Editor at The Economist Group and ran the Americas operations of two British trade publications.

For the last 12 years, Dwight has worked as a freelance writer and editorial project manager, serving clients in the financial technology, banking, broker/dealer, consulting, asset management, and corporate sectors. This has given him considerable experience in idea generation and project management, working collaboratively to help clients meet their goals with little or no supervision.

Expertise

risk management
derivatives
capital markets
regulation
market data

Achievements and Education

Dwight is a journalist and editor with over 30 years of experience writing and editing sophisticated financial, economic, and business articles for leading magazines, newspapers, and web sites. He specializes in personal finance, risk management, capital markets, and wealth management. He served as editor of Risk magazine and editor-in-chief of Worth magazine. His financial commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere. He has provided on-air commentary for CNN, CNBC, and the BBC.

As proprietor of Cass Editorial Services since 2010, Dwight has provided writing and editorial project management services to a range of financial services, government and corporate clients including Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (now DWS), The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Interactive Data, Euler Hermes, Ernst & Young, The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, The Project Management Institute, Reval, and The Financial Accounting Standards Board.