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MoneyWeek’s mission is to bring you news, expert analysis and insights to help you understand what really matters when it comes to your finances. 

Make informed investment decisions and grow your wealth with the latest information and opinions on fund performances, global markets, property prices and the economy – from our team of award-winning journalists and finance experts. Our editorial is independent of commercial influence.

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Kalpana Fitzpatrick
Kalpana Fitzpatrick

Kalpana is an award-winning journalist with extensive experience in financial journalism. She is also the author of Invest Now: The Simple Guide to Boosting Your Finances (Heligo) and the children's money book Get to Know Money (DK Books). 

Her work includes writing for a number of media outlets, from national papers, and magazines to books. She has written for national papers and well-known women’s lifestyle and luxury titles. She was finance editor for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Red and Prima. She started her career at the Financial Times group, covering pensions and investments.

As a money expert, Kalpana is a regular guest on TV and radio – appearances include BBC One’s Morning Live, ITV’s Eat Well, Save Well, Sky News and more. She was also the resident money expert for the BBC Money 101 podcast. Kalpana writes a monthly money column for Ideal Home and a monthly 'Ask Kalpana' column for Woman magazine.

Kalpana also often speaks at events. She is passionate about helping people be better with their money; her particular passion is to educate more people about getting started with investing the right way and promoting financial education.

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Katie Williams

Katie has a background in investment writing and is interested in everything to do with personal finance and financial news.

Before joining MoneyWeek, she worked as a content writer at Invesco, a global asset management firm, which she joined as a graduate in 2019. While there, she enjoyed translating complex topics into “easy to understand” stories.

She studied English at the University of Cambridge and loves reading, writing and going to the theatre.

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Vaishali Varu

Vaishali graduated in journalism from Leeds University and she has experience working with the likes of Leicester Mercury, Inews and The Week. She also comes from a marketing background, where she has done copywriting and content creation for businesses. 

Currently writing about all things personal finance, Vaishali is passionate about finding the best deals around, whether it's the best credit cards or the cheapest personal loans, as well as sharing top money hacks to help people save and better manage their money. 

Henry Sandercock
Henry Sandercock

Henry Sandercock has spent more than eight years as a journalist covering a wide variety of beats. Having studied for an MA in journalism at the University of Kent, he started his career in the garden of England as a reporter for local TV channel KMTV. 

Henry then worked at the BBC for three years as a radio producer - mostly on BBC Radio 2 with Jeremy Vine, but also on major BBC Radio 4 programmes like The World at One, PM and Broadcasting House. Switching to print media, he covered fresh foods for respected magazine The Grocer for two years. 

After moving to NationalWorld.com - a national news site run by the publisher of The Scotsman and Yorkshire Post - Henry began reporting on the cost of living crisis, becoming the title’s money editor in early 2023. He covered everything from the energy crisis to scams and inflation. You will now find him writing for MoneyWeek. Away from work, Henry lives in Edinburgh with his partner and their whippet, Whisper.

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Oojal Dhanjal

Oojal has achieved a Master's degree in International Journalism from Cardiff University. She has written for several Newsquest dailies, Voice Wales, DIVA Magazine and Sony Music. 

Her work has revolved around covering critical social issues, such as the cost of living crisis, student poverty, industrial action, LGBTQIA+ issues and mental health. 

When she's not immersed in all things editorial, you can either find her walking around the streets of Cardiff, at Cineworld watching the latest film, or scrolling through cat reels wondering when she might bring one home.

Ruth Emery
Ruth Emery

Ruth is passionate about helping people feel more confident about their finances. She was previously editor of Times Money Mentor, and before that was deputy Money editor at The Sunday Times

A multi-award-winning journalist, Ruth started her career on a pensions magazine at the FT Group, and has also worked at Money Observer and for the Money Advice Service. 

Outside of work, she is a mum to two young children, a magistrate, and an NHS volunteer.

Marc Shoffman
Marc Shoffman

Marc Shoffman is an award-winning freelance journalist specialising in business, personal finance and property. His work has appeared in print and online publications ranging from FT Business to The Times, Mail on Sunday and The i newspaper. He also co-presents the In For A Penny financial planning podcast.

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Nicole García Mérida

Nicole graduated with a BA in journalism & communications from Cardiff University and then went on to do a masters in magazine journalism at City, University of London. She started off as an editorial assistant at MoneyWeek in 2019, and now, as well as contributing to the website, she’s a writer and section editor for the magazine.

Outside of work she loves cooking and eating, her dog Moose and her cat Fish, and buying more plants than she can fit in her house.

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Andrew VanSickle
Andrew Van Sickle

Andrew is the editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He grew up in Vienna and studied at the University of St Andrews, where he gained a first-class MA in geography & international relations.

After graduating he began to contribute to the foreign page of The Week and soon afterwards joined MoneyWeek at its inception in October 2000. He helped Merryn Somerset Webb establish it as Britain’s best-selling financial magazine, contributing to every section of the publication and specialising in macroeconomics and stockmarkets, before going part-time.

His freelance projects have included a 2009 relaunch of The Pharma Letter, where he covered corporate news and political developments in the German pharmaceuticals market for two years, and a multiyear stint as deputy editor of the Barclays account at Redwood, a marketing agency.

Andrew has been editing MoneyWeek since 2018, and continues to specialise in investment and news in German-speaking countries owing to his fluent command of the language.

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Cris Sholto Heaton

Cris Sholto Heaton is an investment analyst and writer who has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2006 and was managing editor of the magazine between 2016 and 2018. He is especially interested in international investing, believing many investors still focus too much on their home markets and that it pays to take advantage of all the opportunities the world offers. He often writes about Asian equities, international income and global asset allocation.

Cris began his career in financial services consultancy at PwC and Lane Clark & Peacock, before an abrupt change of direction into oil, gas and energy at Petroleum Economist and Platts and subsequently into investment research and writing. In addition to his articles for MoneyWeek, he also works with a number of asset managers, consultancies and financial information providers.

He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and the Investment Management Certificate, as well as degrees in finance and mathematics. He has also studied acting, film-making and photography, and strongly suspects that an awareness of what makes a compelling story is just as important for understanding markets as any amount of qualifications.

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Dr Matthew Partridge

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @DrMatthewPartri

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Max King

Max has an economics degree from the University of Cambridge and is a chartered accountant. He worked at Investec Asset Management for 12 years, managing multi-asset funds investing in internally and externally managed funds, including investment trusts. This included a fund of investment trusts which grew to £120m+.

Max has managed ten investment trusts (winning many awards) and sat on the boards of three trusts; two directorships are still active. After 39 years in financial services – including 30 as a professional fund manager – Max took semi-retirement in 2017. Max has been a MoneyWeek columnist since 2016 writing about investment funds in magazines and more generally on markets online, plus occasional opinion pieces. He also writes for the Investment Trust Handbook each year and has contributed to The Daily Telegraph and other publications.

Dominic Frisby

Dominic Frisby (“mercurially witty” – The Spectator) is the world’s only financial writer and comedian. He is MoneyWeek’s main commentator on gold, commodities, currencies and cryptocurrencies. He is the author of the books Bitcoin: the Future of Money? and Life After The State. He also co-wrote the documentary Four Horsemen and presents the chat show, Stuff That Interests Me.

His 2016 show Let’s Talk About Tax was a huge hit at the Edinburgh Festival and Penguin Random House has since commissioned him to write a book on the subject - Daylight Robbery: How tax shaped our past and will change our future. His 2018 Edinburgh Festival show, Dominic Frisby's Financial Gameshow, won rave reviews.

Dominic was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University and the Webber-Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art.

Find Dominic on X at @dominicfrisby

David Prosser

David Prosser is a freelance journalist with more than 20 years’ experience writing about personal finance, business, economics and entrepreneurship. A former business editor of The Independent and personal finance editor of Express Newspapers, David has also written for The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Financial Times and a range of specialist magazines and websites.

Find David on X at @davidprosserind

Ruth Jackson-Kirby

Ruth is a personal finance journalist with 17 years of experience writing about everything from pensions to pet insurance. Ruth started her career as a staff writer for MoneyWeek and she continues to contribute to the personal finance section of the magazine. Ruth also writes for numerous national publications including The Sunday Times, The Times, The Mail on Sunday and Good Housekeeping. Ruth is passionate about ethical investing and encouraging people to take control of their finances and not be put off by jargon.

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