Gareth Stokes holds a business degree in financial management and writes regularly on topics of interest in the financial and investment environments. After serving a four year stint as a business analyst in the UK, he returned to South Africa and joined Fleet Street Publications as their financial editor. He edited and contributed to the highly successful monthly financial newsletters The Zurich Club and Red Hot Penny Shares. He has now returned to the fold as MoneyWeek Online South Africa editor after taking some time off to pursue other writing interests. Gareth is also the author of Fear, Greed and the Stock Market, a beginner’s guide to successful stock market investing. He is also the online editor for Financial & Advisory (FA) News.
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.
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.
Cris Sholto Heaton. Cris has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2006 and writes our weekly MoneyWeek Asia email. Before 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 has degrees in finance from Birkbeck College, University of London, in mathematics from the University of Durham, and a graduate certificate in journalism from the London College of Printing. He holds the CFA Society of the UK's Investment Management Certificate.
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
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.
Eoin Gleeson. Eoin came to MoneyWeek in 2006 having graduated with a MLitt in Economics from Trinity College Dublin. He taught Economic History for two years at Trinity, while researching a thesis on how herd behaviour destroys financial markets. Eoin writes the magazine's Sector page - covering everything from Solar Power to Chinese sewage treatment - and acts as managing editor of MoneyWeek's newsletters.
Gary Booysen. Born and raised in Johannesburg, Gary studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds a quintuple major in Economics, Management, Psychology, Classics and English. He did a three year stint in London, working first as an editor before joining the investment community in the lofty heights of Canary Warf. His passion for seeking the truth behind investment jargon and economic muddling saw him turn down jobs with Sasfin and Investec in favour of the reflective life of MoneyWeek editor and analyst. He currently writes the Funds and Shares at a Glance as well as the exclusive newsletter Stockmarket Sleuth.
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
John Stepek. John Stepek is the Editor of MoneyWeek UK 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.
Karin Iten: Born and raised in Johannesburg, Karin studied English Literature before entering the financial world. Over the years, her love of shopping turned into a passion for saving money. These days, she’s the regular Personal Finance contributor for MoneyWeek¸ where she passes on her thrifty ways to help readers save money on insurance, medical aid, grocery shopping, etc. She also writes the Personal View page where she provides weekly advice to readers from SA’s top investment analysts on where they should put their money now. On a daily basis, she talks to the likes of David Shapiro (portfolio manager of Sasfin Securities), Chris Hart (chief economist at Investment Solutions), Lavan Gopaul and other renowned SA investment experts. In addition to this, Karin also works alongside Leon Kok, Chairman of The South African Investor and edits Red Hot Penny Shares for Gareth Stokes. This gives her access to an exclusive network of analysts who have their fingers on the pulse of all things finance.
Matthew Lynn. Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, writing a weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. Matthew is also a thriller writer.
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).
Riccardo Marzi. Riccardo Marzi started trading at the age of 18, and paid for his university education with the profits from his stock market investments. He began working for one of Italy's largest brokers while still at university. After graduating from Milan's Bocconi University in 1996 with a first-class degree in economics, Riccardo moved to London and worked as a sales trader in the City. He covered all major European and American markets looking for absolute return strategies; his client base comprised primary institutional clients including long-only funds, hedge funds and proprietary desks. In 2001, while working as a trader during the day, Riccardo went on to complete a MSc in Applied Statistics and Operation Research at the University of London's Birkbeck College. Riccardo retired in 2007, and now spends his days travelling the world, using his trading skills and experience to spot investment opportunities. Riccardo also runs his own investment newsletter.
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, Antarctica 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, personal finance articles and a weekly MoneyWeek Saver email. She became Travel Editor in September 2006.
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.
