Gosling's Grouse: Signing off

Final column for Investment Week

Since Investment Week launched nearly 25 years ago, there have been umpteen investment crises including the 'mother' or 'daddy' of all crises: Lehman Brothers.

We are only a few weeks away from the tenth anniversary of the bank's collapse at the height of the Global Financial Crisis - GFC - which for many IW readers probably feels/felt like the worst time in their investing lives. However, the great thing about getting older is you see a lot of things and one crash/correction/crisis feels like another.  For all you investing youngsters, the collapse of Lehman Brothers might have felt bad. But imagine being an emerging markets investor during the Asian crisis of 1997, or the Russian debt crisis, or the Mexican peso crisis, or the first of the...