Alistair Barr has been a reporter covering hedge funds, insurance and banking at MarketWatch for three years. Before that, he was a reporter at Bloomberg News for almost five years in London, focusing on stock exchanges and hedge funds. Alistair started his business journalism career at Kiplinger’s Personal Financial Magazine in 1995 after graduating from the University of Ripon & York St. John in York, England. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife Kimberly Woolley and daughters Nora and Tessa.