Suzanne McGee
Suzanne McGee examines how investment products and market plumbing shape the way money moves through global finance for Reuters. Her coverage centers on exchange-traded funds, investor flows and the structure of newer vehicles, rather than on broad corporate or macro headlines. She writes in an analytical style that connects product design, regulation and crowd behavior, showing where innovation or stress in markets may translate into risk for investors.
Exchange-traded funds and thematic strategies
McGee’s core beat is the exchange-traded fund industry, from mainstream index products to niche thematic and speculative strategies. She tracks the rapid expansion of ETFs, documenting milestones such as U.S. ETF inflows crossing the $1 trillion mark in a single year and the concerns this pace raises about market concentration and bubbles. Her stories often weigh growth against fragility, exploring how the proliferation of complex and leveraged products can amplify market moves rather than just mirror them.
She pays close attention to new and unconventional ETF launches, including vehicles tied to prediction market platforms and the infrastructure that supports them.
Coverage of a leveraged ETF designed to last for just an hour shows her interest in the mechanics and risks of ultra-short-term trading tools. She also writes on futuristic themes such as quantum computing stocks, treating them less as technology stories than as case studies in speculative ETF-linked trades and volatility.
Across these pieces, McGee emphasizes how product structure, liquidity and index construction can affect both price behavior and investor outcomes. She returns repeatedly to questions about whether the ETF ecosystem is robust enough to handle stress, and how far innovation can go before it undermines the stability that passive investing is meant to provide.
Retail flows, crowded trades and investor behavior
A second strand in McGee’s work follows where investors are putting their money and what that reveals about sentiment and risk appetite. She reports on record flows into U.S. ETFs, breaking down which asset classes and strategies attract capital and how those trends shift with inflation worries, rate expectations and geopolitical shocks.
Her coverage of retail investors steering unprecedented amounts of cash into silver via exchange-traded products illustrates her focus on “crowded trades” and the potential for abrupt reversals when enthusiasm fades.
McGee writes frequently on cash management and defensive positioning, particularly through money market funds.
She has covered how investors drive U.S. money market fund assets to record levels when war-related risks and broader uncertainty push them toward perceived safety. In her work on hedge fund portfolio filings, she uses the positions of managers such as Tiger Global Management to show how professional investors are repositioning between growth stocks, platforms and financial firms as conditions change.
These stories link flows data and fund positioning to the lived experience of investors, explaining how crowded trades develop and what might unwind them. She treats both retail and institutional behavior as signals and stress points, highlighting when investors cluster too tightly in a single commodity, sector or strategy.
Fixed income stress and the cost of capital
McGee also covers episodes when fixed income markets become a source of wider anxiety, with particular attention to long-maturity U.S. Treasury yields. In analysis of panics over rising long-end yields, she details the intertwined supply and demand forces driving rates higher, including heavy government and corporate issuance and shifts in the mix of buyers. Her reporting explains why policymakers face constraints in trying to cap borrowing costs, connecting technical bond-market dynamics to the broader cost of capital across the economy.
She links these moves in yields to investor portfolio decisions, showing how higher long-term rates can push both retail and institutional investors to re-evaluate risk in equities, credit and alternatives.
Stories on surging money market assets and defensive allocations sit alongside her coverage of yield-driven volatility, giving a rounded picture of how bond-market stress reverberates through other asset classes. This perspective underscores her focus on the financial system’s wiring: how shifts in a single key rate can ripple through funds, strategies and investor behavior.
Regulation, retirement access and new market formats
Regulatory change and product access form another recurring theme in McGee’s coverage. She has reported on official guidelines that open the door for private assets to be included in 401(k) retirement plans, explaining what this means for plan sponsors, asset managers and savers.
In multi-reporter coverage of high-profile political events, she examines how policy statements and promises around retirement savings and stock market performance feed into investor expectations and market reaction.
Her work also follows emerging trading formats that blur lines between traditional securities and digital tokens, including plans by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to permit trading in stock tokens. She treats these developments as potential structural shifts, looking at how new instruments might challenge existing regulatory frameworks and alter liquidity patterns. Across regulatory and product stories, McGee brings the focus back to access, transparency and risk, laying out how rule changes and innovation could reshape the choices available to households and institutions.
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Abigail Summerville
Abigail Summerville brings a leveraged finance background to her work covering consumer and retail mergers and acquisitions for Reuters. She reports on deal-making and capital markets across food, beverages, spirits, personal care, skincare, bath products and pet food. Her stories focus on transaction terms, ownership stakes, valuation, debt structures and funding sources. She often breaks news on potential sales and strategic reviews before formal announcements. Notable coverage includes Sazerac’s acquisition of Au Vodka, Blackstone’s exploration of a ZO Skin Health sale, CVC’s efforts to sell the parent of Dr Teal’s, and Colgate-Palmolive’s planned divestitures. She also covers consumer IPOs, including Jersey Mike’s and Black Rock Coffee, and co-writes Wall Street market reports. She joined Reuters in 2022 after three years covering leveraged finance and primary debt markets.
Adekunle Agbetiloye
Adekunle Agbetiloye is a senior reporter who connects capital flows, hard numbers and energy transition to the wider African economy. He works at Business Insider Africa, covering how money, technology and energy reshape economic growth, jobs and living conditions. His beat spans the African economy, technology, energy transition, climate change, startups and critical minerals, with a focus on concrete deals and data-led stories. He reports on African startup funding cycles, sovereign wealth funds, billionaire investors, multilateral and private investment programs, energy and power markets, Bitcoin mining, and economic policy choices. His work follows how governments finance spending, manage debt and respond to social pressure, and how sector snapshots and health and development metrics reveal links between macro indicators, corporate strategy and everyday costs.
Aimee Picchi
Aimee Picchi connects Social Security, retirement programs and economic policy directly to the financial security of ordinary Americans, showing how macro decisions hit household budgets. She is associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch at CBS News, covering business and personal finance with clear, accessible explanations of complex money issues. Her core beat is Social Security and retirement, interest rates and inflation, and how policy, markets and company strategies affect workers, retirees, savers and investors. She reports on benefit adequacy, looming Social Security cuts, COLA changes, Federal Reserve rate decisions, fuel costs, trade tensions and labor’s share of income, always framing coverage around pocketbook impacts. Her background includes retirement reporting fellowships, prior staff reporting on technology, media and business, an Institutional Investor book on affluent investors, and freelance work for national outlets. She also writes science fiction and fantasy and is a Nebula Award finalist.
Alex Harring
Alex Harring turns fast-moving market, economic and corporate developments into clear pre-market briefings that show what will matter when U.S. trading opens. He is a markets and economics reporter for CNBC’s digital platforms and writes Morning Squawk, a flagship daily newsletter that gives readers five key things to know before the stock market opens. His beat spans financial markets, investing, consumer trends and the U.S. economy, with coverage of central bank decisions, inflation, corporate strategy, sector moves and geopolitical shocks. He focuses on how policy, data and earnings shape equities, interest rates, currencies and investor positioning, linking price action with underlying drivers in real time and in reported features. Harring’s background reporting on corporate news, business and the economy across print, digital, broadcast and streaming informs his habit of connecting markets, companies and geopolitics in one frame.