The biggest and best calls of MoneyWeek magazine's first 999 issues

MoneyWeek hasn't always got everything right, but we do hope that over the years we have managed to help our readers to protect and grow their wealth. John Stepek takes a trip down memory lane.

Queues outside the Northern Rock © Shutterstock
We warned of the credit crunch just before Northern Rock went bust © Shutterstock
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MoneyWeek launched on 4 November 2000, not long after the dotcom boom had turned to bust. It may not have been the most auspicious time to launch an exciting new investment magazine, but our always slightly bearish tendencies helped us to thrive and 1,000 issues later we’re still going strong, thanks to our readers. Here are some of the most significant calls we made along the way – and how they turned out.

Buy gold (Sept 2002)

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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.