How you’d invest £1,000 until 2030

To celebrate our 1,000th issue, we asked you where you would invest £1,000 if you had to lock it up in a single asset or fund for the next ten years. John Stepek picks through the best of your ideas

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First of all, thank you so much. Our inbox has been swamped with suggestions for our “invest £1,000 for ten years” challenge. Merryn has chosen the winner in her editor's letter this week, but you sent in so many ideas that we thought we’d review them and get a feel for what MoneyWeek readers are buying now.

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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.