Lombard Street Research was founded in 1989 by Tim Congdon CBE and quickly established its reputation as a leading provider of independent macroeconomic research.

Our consistent aim has been to provide accurate economic forecasts in order to improve the investment thinking and strategic decisions of financial institutions, banks and corporations worldwide.

Our economists

A research company is only as strong as its people, and at Lombard Street Research we can boast some of the most original, rigorous and consistently accurate comment and analysis on the world's markets.

Our team of economists has a breadth of specialities that gives us a comprehensive grasp of global economic trends, and an individual depth of knowledge and experience that affords us an unrivalled perspective on economic events.

Methodology

The key foundation of our research is monetary economics. Fundamental analysis of trends in money and credit, banking systems and flows-of-funds provide unique insights into economic developments and into likely movements of financial asset prices.

We also employ proprietary leading indicators to help generate forecasts for economic growth in all of the major economies of the world.

Read about our methodology in depth.

'A Friend in Lombard Street' The character featured in our logo is based on an original engraving of a certain Mr. Richardson, the first billbroker and the original "Friend in Lombard Street" as featured in Walter Bagehot's 1873 classic on monetary economics "Lombard Street".