John Stepek, the Executive Editor of MoneyWeek, "How contrarians bet against the market and win", Investing Matters Podcast - Episode 13

Investing Matters

Welcome to this brand new investing podcast from the London South East. My name is Peter Higgins, you can find me on Twitter @conkers3 and I will be your host for this series of Investing Matters podcasts.

What can you expect from the Investing Matters podcasts? A great question. You will find long form interviews with noteworthy veterans and experts from the investment and fund management industry. During these interviews each interviewee will share and impart their knowledge, learning and insights on what aspects of Investing truly matters to them and what in their view should matter to investors. We hope this knowledge exchange benefits all and enables all those accessing and listening to these podcasts to achieve even greater investing success.

With that in mind, welcome to episode thirteen of the Investing Matters series, which is with none other than John Stepek, the Executive Editor of MoneyWeek magazine. John started out in journalism by writing articles about the specific business challenges facing family businesses. In 2003 John took a job on the finance desk of Teletext. Now how many of us remember page by page searching through the Teletext page for our share prices? Well, John spent two years covering the markets and breaking financial news for Teletext nurturing his writing skills.

John joined MoneyWeek in 2005 as their website editor, where his main job was to relaunch the Money Morning newsletter. He went onto become MoneyWeek’s Deputy Editor, then Editor and now is the Executive Editor of the MoneyWeek. During those seventeen years John has seen, experienced, talked about and written about almost every aspect of investing always with the intent of educating and informing investors of every skillset and generation. This is something he does brilliantly in his book, “The Sceptical Investor: How contrarians bet against the market and win – and you can too”. John’s work has been published in Shares Magazine, Spear’s Magazine, The Sunday Times, The Spectator and many others. You might also have seen John on TV, as he has appeared as an expert commentator on Bloomberg, Newsnight and Daily Politics among others.

In this Investing Matters podcast, I discuss with John, how studying psychology led to his passion for investment journalism, learning from history e.g. The Great Financial Crisis, how to spot bubbles, how opportunities can arise from when other investors are experiencing maximum revulsion, Buying companies for less that they are worth, his insightful investing book, “The Sceptical Investor: How contrarians bet against the market and win – and you can too”, How to find a good contrarian fund manager and much more.

We hope you enjoy this podcast, and we look forward to hearing your feedback.

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