MoneyWeek Conference 2016: what happens when money dies?

How to invest during the monetary endgame was the theme of this year's MoneyWeek Conference in London. John Stepek sums up the debate.

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"When banking dies: how to invest during a monetary endgame." That was the theme of this year's MoneyWeek conference, held in London this Monday just past (3 October). At a time when the deep faultlines in our banking system are threatening to wreak havoc in the markets yet again this time in the form of questions around Deutsche Bank's viability it seemed a particularly good opportunity to ask: can our current financial system survive? If not, what might replace it? And what does it mean for you as an investor?

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John Stepek

John Stepek is a senior reporter at Bloomberg News and a former editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in psychology in 1996 and has always been fascinated by the gap between the way the market works in theory and the way it works in practice, and by how our deep-rooted instincts work against our best interests as investors.

He started out in journalism by writing articles about the specific business challenges facing family firms. In 2003, he took a job on the finance desk of Teletext, where he spent two years covering the markets and breaking financial news.

His work has been published in Families in Business, Shares magazine, Spear's Magazine, The Sunday Times, and The Spectator among others. He has also appeared as an expert commentator on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Radio Scotland, Newsnight, Daily Politics and Bloomberg. His first book, on contrarian investing, The Sceptical Investor, was released in March 2019. You can follow John on Twitter at @john_stepek.