Andrew McKean
Andrew McKean is a finance journalist at Rampart whose reporting follows the money from institutional decisions down to the businesses and customers who live with the consequences. His work stands out for forensic, narrative coverage of banks, fund managers, superannuation and financial advice, built around concrete case studies and clear numbers rather than abstractions. He joined Rampart as a staff writer after covering superannuation, financial advice and investment markets at a specialist finance masthead, and he continues to treat those sectors as interconnected parts of the same story.
Bank shocks and stressed lenders
McKean’s coverage of banks focuses on how seemingly ordinary borrowers can expose deep structural weaknesses in lenders. In his piece on Judo Bank, he anchors the story in three specific customers - a window manufacturer, a financial planning firm and a builder - whose inability to keep up with their obligations helped trigger a sharp market repricing.
He quantifies the impact directly, tying those cases to a loss of about $800 million in market value and a 40.8 per cent share price fall, and then works back to the lending decisions and risk controls that allowed the situation to build.
In more recent reporting he looks at clients who maintained full confidence in a lender that was only weeks from receivership, using their experience to show how information gaps and optimistic communication can mask imminent distress. Across these stories he concentrates on mid-tier banks and non-bank lenders under strain, blending corporate detail with the practical reality facing borrowers, depositors and shareholders.
Superannuation, advice and investment markets
Before joining Rampart, McKean built his beat around superannuation, wealth management and financial advice, and that background continues to shape how he covers investment markets. At his previous finance publication he reported on product launches and strategy shifts, including the creation of a $100 million private credit fund aimed at providing tailored financing for mid-market businesses.
In that work he pays close attention to fund structure, target borrowers and how managers plan to deploy capital, treating private credit as both an investment opportunity and a business-lending tool.
He has also covered the establishment of founder-owned boutique firms such as TWC Investment Management, outlining ownership, positioning and the niche they seek to occupy in a crowded market. Alongside trade coverage, he has written for Money magazine on superannuation, wealth management and financial advice, carrying over the same emphasis on how product design, fees and regulatory settings affect long-term retirement outcomes and client relationships.
Fund managers, fees and governance
McKean’s work on fund managers centres on governance, timing and fee structures, often framed through specific portfolio decisions. In his reporting on Hyperion, he asks directly why the manager sold $88 million of Domino’s shares six days before shareholders learned of the chief executive’s resignation, using that sequence to probe how investment decisions intersect with corporate events and disclosure.
He combines those questions with technical detail on trade size and portfolio impact, putting readers inside the decision-making process rather than simply relaying outcomes. Earlier at Rampart he dissected Federation Asset Management’s fee structure, comparing it with peers and highlighting the manager’s subsequent mea culpa over a controversial investment in Sendle. That piece reflects a recurring interest in how managers are paid, how those incentives line up with client interests, and how firms respond when investments go wrong.
Across these stories McKean treats fund governance as a central part of the investment narrative, not a footnote.
Formats and reporting style
McKean works across breaking news, enterprise reporting and feature writing, with experience in digital, print and podcast formats.
His prior role included hosting a finance podcast, where he translated complex superannuation and investment themes into accessible conversations while maintaining a focus on detail. At Rampart he writes long-form pieces that are built around scenes, dialogue and specific numbers, but the prose stays plain and direct, mirroring the way finance professionals talk among themselves. He occasionally steps into adjacent areas such as the business of sport and corporate communications, as in his work unpacking the rhetoric used by senior executives to sell strategic decisions to stakeholders. Across his body of work, his distinguishing trait is an ability to connect institutional finance - banks, super funds, asset managers and advisers - to the concrete experiences of customers, investors and staff, without losing the rigor of market and governance analysis.
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