A thousand thankyous

Welcome to the 1,000th issue of MoneyWeek – we couldn't have done it without our readers.

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Welcome to the 1,000th issue of MoneyWeek (and the tenth done from home!). It’s been quite a ride. We’ve seen a few bear markets. We’ve seen emergency monetary (and now fiscal) policy seemingly change the way markets work completely (see Andrew’s analysis of this madness in this week's magazine). We’ve watched the integration of China into the global economy; been front-row spectators as a 30-year interest rate and inflation cycle has played out; dipped in and out of a couple of commodity bull markets (time to buy again?); and seen technology transform our investing and personal lives along the way.

We have also gathered quite a few readers. The main thing to say this week, then, is thank you to all of you. Thousands of you have been subscribers since the very early days. You’ve seen all the extraordinary events of the last 20 years with us. And you’ve been our inspiration. Our original aim was to make all of our financial lives both simpler and richer by cutting through the self-interested waffle of the world of personal finance advice to get to the stuff that really matters. That has meant getting to grips with the long-term market trends noted above. But it has also meant focusing on less glamorous subjects: the power of compounding; the use of tax wrappers (sometimes the structure of a product matters as much as its contents); the relentless pace of change in pensions regulation; the need for real portfolio diversification (you can’t always be right, so you must always diversify); the best ways to produce a steady income; and the seemingly endless debate about the correct balance between active and passive investments.

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Merryn Somerset Webb

Merryn Somerset Webb started her career in Tokyo at public broadcaster NHK before becoming a Japanese equity broker at what was then Warburgs. She went on to work at SBC and UBS without moving from her desk in Kamiyacho (it was the age of mergers).

After five years in Japan she returned to work in the UK at Paribas. This soon became BNP Paribas. Again, no desk move was required. On leaving the City, Merryn helped The Week magazine with its City pages before becoming the launch editor of MoneyWeek in 2000 and taking on columns first in the Sunday Times and then in 2009 in the Financial Times

Twenty years on, MoneyWeek is the best-selling financial magazine in the UK. Merryn was its Editor in Chief until 2022. She is now a senior columnist at Bloomberg and host of the Merryn Talks Money podcast -  but still writes for Moneyweek monthly. 

Merryn is also is a non executive director of two investment trusts – BlackRock Throgmorton, and the Murray Income Investment Trust.