The MoneyWeek team
Andrew Van Sickle. Andrew grew up in Vienna and then went to the University of St Andrews, where he gained a first-class MA in Geography & International Relations. While working at Harrod's selling knitwear, he began to contribute to the foreign page of The Week and soon afterwards joined MoneyWeek at its inception in October 2000. Read all articles by Andrew Van Sickle.
Bill Bonner. Bill is the author of the acclaimed free daily email, The Daily Reckoning, and two best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving The Soft Depression of the 21st Century, and Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis. He is also the co-author (along with Lila Rajiva) of Mobs, Messiahs and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics. Read all articles by Bill Bonner.
Cris Sholto Heaton. Cris Heaton has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2006 and writes our weekly MoneyWeek Asia email. Prior to joining the MoneyWeek team, he contributed to a number of financial publications including Petroleum Economist, Platts and Shares. He has also worked in pensions and insurance consultancy at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Lane Clark & Peacock, as well as spells selling Brazilian music in Canada and teaching financial English to business students in France. Cris holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Durham, a graduate certificate in Journalism from the London College of Printing and is currently studying for a graduate diploma in Finance at Birkbeck, University of London. Read all articles by Cris Sholto Heaton.
David Stevenson. David joined MoneyWeek as Associate Editor in May 2008. Having started a career in the City with Morgan Grenfell Investment Management, David joined Oppenheimer in 1983, starting as a UK fund manager before taking over the European unit trust in 1986. He has subsequently managed European equity portfolios for Hill Samuel, Cigna and IAI International, a US-based Lloyds TSB subsidiary, and has worked as an analyst for stockbroker BNP Securities. After a brief period running his own business, David then returned to the financial world in 2007 as investment writer for the Motley Fool. He joined MoneyWeek in May 2008 as Associate Editor. Read all articles by David Stevenson.
Dominic Frisby. Dominic is MoneyWeek’s commentator on commodities, and is an active private investor in junior mining and energy companies. He is the presenter and producer of Commodity Watch Radio - an internet radio show run in association with Minesite, where Dominic discusses the commodities and financial markets with leading lights of the sector. Dominic was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University and the Webber-Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art. Aside from his involvement in the commodities sector, He is also one of the UK’s leading voiceover artists, a TV presenter and stand-up comedian. Read all articles by Dominic Frisby.
Eoin Gleeson. After graduating with a BA in economics from Trinity College Dublin, Eoin spent two years teaching Irish university students about the sorry history of their economy. He completed a research masters shortly afterwards, and submitted a thesis on herd behaviour in financial markets. He joined the Moneyweek team in October 2006. Read all articles by Eoin Gleeson.
James Ferguson. James Ferguson qualified with an MA (Hons) in economics from Edinburgh University in 1985. For the last 21 years he has had a high-powered career in institutional stock broking, specialising in equities, working for Nomura, Robert Fleming, SBC Warburg, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Mitsubishi Securities.
Jody Clarke. Jody graduated with an LLB in law and European studies from The University of Limerick in Ireland, after which he completed an MSc (Ag) in international development at University College Dublin. Following some gentle persuasion from his other half, he came to London where he worked for the United Nations World Food Programme as an intern. While there he completed his paper on the impact of HIV/AIDS, weak governance and drought on sub-Saharan food security. He joined MoneyWeek at the beginning of 2006. Read all articles by Jody Clarke.
John Stepek. John Stepek is the Editor of MoneyWeek and writes our daily investment email, Money Morning. John graduated from Strathclyde University in 1996, and went straight into a career writing about business and finance. He has worked for a number of financial magazines and newsletters, including Families in Business, Shares magazine and the business section of the Sunday Times. In 2003 he took a job on the finance desk of Teletext, where he spent two years covering the markets and breaking financial news. John joined MoneyWeek in 2005. Read all articles by John Stepek.
Merryn Somerset Webb. Merryn was a senior scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she gained a first class degree in history & economics. She then became a Daiwa scholar and spent a year studying Japanese at London University. In 1992 Merryn moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan's public TV station. In 1993 she became an institutional broker for SBC Warburg, where she stayed for 5 years. Returning to the UK in 1998, Merryn became a financial writer for The Week. Two years later, in 2000, MoneyWeek was launched and Merryn took the job of editor; she recently became MoneyWeek's Editor-in-chief. Merryn has published a book on personal finance for women, Love is Not Enough: The Smart Woman's Guide to Making (and Keeping) Money (HarperPress, 2007). Read all articles by Merryn Somerset Webb.
Paul Hill. Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute. Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited, and writes our weekly 'Who's tipping what' column. Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker. In addition to his weekly column in MoneyWeek, Paul also writes a very successful investment newsletter, Precision Guided Investments, where he gives personally recommended share tips based on his own extensive, in-depth research. Read all articles by Paul Hill.
Ruth Jackson. Born and raised in North Yorkshire, Ruth studied Modern History at the University of St Andrews. During this time she also travelled the world working for Scuba diving companies. As a result, Antartica is the only continent she hasn’t set foot on. In 2004 Ruth completed work experience stints with The Evening Press in York, FHM Magazine and Private Eye. In 2005 after graduating with a 2:1 MA in Modern History Ruth joined MoneyWeek as the editorial assistant. Since then she has taken on writing investing in property and personal finance articles, and she became the Travel Editor in September 2006. Read all articles by Ruth Jackson.
Simon Nixon. Simon was a senior scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in history, and was president of the Cambridge Union. He worked for six years in investment banking, first at Credit Lyonnais Securities and then at Flemings. He was a founding editor of MoneyWeek and City editor of The Week. He has contributed to a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including The Independent, The Spectator and The Tablet. Simon is currently executive editor of Breakingviews.com and writes the weekly City View column for MoneyWeek. Read all articles by Simon Nixon.
Stephen Bland. Stephen Bland qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1971 and between 1977 and 2001 ran his own successful accountancy practice in London. He has been an active private investor for 40 years. In 1999 he began writing on investing for the Motley Fool website (under the nickname "TMF Pyad") and a number of other financial publications. Since January 2008 he has been a contributor to MoneyWeek. Stephen also runs his own investment newsletter, The Dividend Letter, based on his hugely successful ‘High Yield Portfolio’ (HYP) strategy. Read all articles by Stephen Bland.
Tim Bennett. Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994. He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007. Read all articles by Tim Bennett.
Tim Price. Tim graduated with a BA in English language and literature from Christ Church, Oxford University in 1991, whereupon he entered the City as a bond salesman. Having worked at Paribas Capital Markets and Merrill Lynch International, he helped to set up an award-winning investment management department at Ansbacher & Co. in 2001. He then moved to Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) in London where he was chief investment officer, global strategies, helping to manage over $1 billion in an absolute return programme for institutional clients. Tim currently works as director of investment at PFP Wealth Management, a UK-based investment and financial advisory practice which advises on and manages £1.5 billion in client asset. He is also a regular contributor of articles to MoneyWeek and to our Roundtable discussions. Tim runs an investment advisory service, The Price Report, especially for MoneyWeek readers – giving individual investors the chance to hear the very latest views, insights and specific tips from top-level City investors and professional managers. Read all articles by Tim Price.
