Our place is with the industry

My experience withMoneyManagementbegan in 1993 when I walked into the offices of Australian Financial Press. I was an advertising executive who didn’t know the difference between a fund manager and a financial planner.

After six weeks of selling advertising onMoney Management, the wonderful staff writer on the publication, Christine Long, took pity on me. She sat me down and explained to me who this publication was aimed at and what it all meant.

I didn’t know then but the time that Christine spent with me epitomised the spirit of the people who have made and who continue to makeMoney Managementthe publication that it is today.

I worked for a number of years as advertising executive onMoneyManagementbefore leaving Australia to work in the United States. As luck would have it, upon my return my old position was newly vacated and I was welcomed back into theMoneyManagementfold. Despite a change of editor and some new journalists on the team,Money Managementfelt like home to me and it was as if I had never been away.

This year, I was delighted to take on the challenging and very exciting role of publisher.

Money Managementis more than a newspaper that reports about an industry. It is a publication that gets involved with the industry and actively participates in it. There are many awards in this market now but back in 1987, the originalMoney ManagementFund Manager of the Year award was truly exceptional and to this day it remains the pre-eminent industry award, as is the Financial Planner of the Year Award, whichMoney Managementintroduced to the market in 1989.

Money Management’srole has always been to educate and inform, we are the editorial innovators and we strive to bring editorial independence — without fear or favour.

All of this being said, it’s our readers who have kept us going all this time, for 15 years. From life agents to financial advisers to fund managers, our readers have supported us and we thank you all.

I am very proud to be the publisher ofMoney Managementand I look forward to many exciting years ahead.

And guess what? I did learn the difference between a financial planner and a fund manager.

Susie Newham

Publisher