About the author

                            Nick Louth is a freelance journalist and author. He has a monthly column on the Financial Times, writes the weekly Bernard Jones Investment Diary in the Investors Chronicle, and has two columns a week on MSN website.

After graduating from the London School of Economics in 1979, Nick Louth was City Editor of Prestel CitiService before joining Reuters in 1987.

During 12 years working for Reuters, Nick Louth worked in New York, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong. His articles have appeared in many of the world’s major newspapers, from USA Today to the Wall Street Journal. He has interviewed some of the world’s most powerful executives, from Microsoft’s Bill Gates to Jack Welch of General Electric, and he has appeared on Reuters Television, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.

Freelance since 1998, Nick writes for the Investors Chronicle, The Fleet Street Letter, and is an investment columnist on MSN’s UK website. Multiply Your Money, Nick Louth’s UK savings and investment guide was published by McGraw Hill in November 2001.