Katya Stead
Financial Journalist & Reporter
Location:
South Africa
Education & qualifications:
- Dual Honours in Journalism and Literature (Cum Laude), University of KwaZulu-Natal
- BA in English, Media Studies (Cum Laude), University of KwaZulu-Natal
Knows about:
Markets, macroeconomics, stocks, investing, trading derivatives, literature, 90s music and movies
Experience:
Katya is a Financial Journalist & Reporter at Invezz, where she covers breaking news and analysis for various markets around the world. With a career in news and finance writing spanning nearly a decade, she is passionate about giving readers the bigger picture when it comes to finance. Katya's work has appeared in numerous publications around the world, including the Independent, the Mail & Guardian, the Africa Report, Insurance Day, ELLE magazine, Pepperstone, IG Markets, and many more.
Bio:
Likes writing deeper-dive articles on out-of-the-box subjects and equally enjoys reading others' work on the same. Katya is also a fiction novelist in her increasingly rare spare time, and has published two fantasy titles under a pseudonym. She can generally be found consuming far too many books, chocolates and cups of tea, with her cat (or toddler or husband) nearby. 
