MoneyWeek
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MoneyWeek is an investment magazine (weekly) and website. It covers financial and economic news, and provides commentary and analysis across UK and global markets.
MoneyWeek is edited in London and published every Friday.
It is owned by MoneyWeek Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of US-based Agora Inc.
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[edit] History
MoneyWeek was launched in November 2000 by Jolyon Connell, and originally published by Dennis Publishing. It was designed as a financial version of The Week magazine, which was co-founded by Jolyon Connell five years previously.[1]
MoneyWeek was sold by Dennis Publishing to Financial News Ltd. in August 2002. Financial News Ltd. kept the magazine for 18 months and then sold it to Agora Inc., the current owners, in December 2003.
A South African edition of MoneyWeek was launched in June 2007, initially on a subscription basis, with newsstand availability from 2008.[2]
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MoneyWeek is edited by Merryn Somerset Webb.
Its aim is "…to make sense of all the thousands of column inches that are published daily in magazines, newspapers and internet sites dedicated to finance and distil it into useful information that we can all profit from."[3]
MoneyWeek provides a digest of the week’s financial and investment news, and also covers associated economic and political stories.
In addition to the news digest, it features market commentary and analysis, share tips, interviews, regular columnists (including Bill Bonner, founder of Agora Inc.), and travel and lifestyle pieces.
MoneyWeek’s editorial stance on investing and stock markets is often contrarian. For example, it consistently backed gold and oil as worthwhile investments from 2002 onwards, before they reached mainstream media awareness. It has also been predicting a UK housing crash since 2004.
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[edit] References
- ^ Connell, Jolyon, MoneyWeek, Issue 1, 4 November 2000, p.3
- ^ MoneyWeek comes to SA
- ^ Advertising in MoneyWeek - Money Week
