In defence of newsletters

The difference between successful people and very successful people, Warren Buffett once said, is that very successful people say no to almost everything. I suspect he’s right. But I’ve never been goo

We didn’t make any specific calls in our first edition, but flicking through it at the British Library the other day (none of us have a copy) I was struck by how we managed to highlight important them

The past may be a foreign country, but it often feels very familiar. The first edition of MoneyWeek appeared 25 years ago this week, on 4 November 2000, just as a huge stockmarket boom based on a pote

Mistakes have their place. As a society matures, its elites seek to get more and more of its surplus output for themselves. They “milk the system”, becoming more corrupt over time. They get richer. Th

Youth is wasted on the young. If I had understood 25 years ago what I know now, I might be reading this edition’s editor’s letter on a beach in Cape Town rather than writing it. At our Wealth Summit l

“The lesson of history,” it is said, “is that the lessons of history are never learned.” Does the same apply to investment? Investors, amateur and professional alike, spend a huge amount of time porin