Click go the years

I was sitting at a desk in the “millionaire’s factory” (Macquarie Bank) when Money magazine was first going to press 20 years ago. I was a handful of years into my career in finance and loving the fast-paced environment. Lunchtimes, evenings and weekends were spent studying and discussing finance and investment. It’s a wonder I have any friends left.

Early Monday evenings in the office several of us would wait at the end of the desk for Australia’s then most popular sharemarket newsletter, The Rivkin Report, to roll off the fax machine. The fax machine! A technology first commercialised in the 1960s.

We were also holding regular meetings about the “millennium bug”, or simply “Y2K”.