Why i launched moneyweek

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

“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

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

History may merely rhyme, rather than repeat itself, but it certainly often offers a neat sense of symmetry. When this magazine launched on 4 November 2000, air was hissing loudly out of the dotcom bu

“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

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