Rodney Hobson is one of the country’s top financial commentators. He writes a weekly column for the Interactive Investor websites and his beginner‘s guide to the stock market, Shares Made Simple, is in its third edition. He is a regular speaker at the London Investor Show and also speaks on cruise ships and to investment clubs and other organisations. Rodney is a former News Editor for Business News on The Times and he has contributed to the City pages on the Daily Mail. During seven years living and working in Asia he was Business Editor of the Singapore Monitor and Deputy Business Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review.