Looking Back At The Financial News

So, The Gibraltar Magazine has completed its twentieth year of continuous publication. Two decades would be an impressive achievement in almost any epoch but, given the digital tsunami that has swept over the publishing terrain in this particular era, it is most definitely something to celebrate. Especial thanks should go to the loyal advertisers and readers that have made this continuity possible.

For a little over a third of those 20 years, I have had the honour of penning the monthly finance column. My debut in these pages was in November 2008, when I was invited to try to explain a highly innovative new overseas pension scheme, which had been launched under a rather impenetrable acronym – QROPS. I'm delighted to say that we (QROPS and I that is) are both still around. I was asked back and have somehow managed to convince the editor every month since then that I had something useful to contribute.