From her first incarnation as head of statistics (she had read maths at the University of London) through her time as finance editor and then mastermind of the newsletter Financial Report, she showed grit, feistiness, a disarming sense of humour and an affection for bone-dry La Ina sherry.

ECONOMIST: Financial journalism loses one of its greats

Stephen Leeb , editor of Personal Finance, recommends taking a chance on junk bonds via a well-managed fund like the PIMCO High Yield Bond Fund ( PHDAX) .

FORBES: Magazine Article

"The only way to establish intimacy is to be willing to open up about yourself, " says David Bakke, 46, an editor at a personal-finance website.

WSJ: Advice for Making New Friends: Share But Don't Overshare

"The MyFootballClub ownership model is an innovative way of funding a lower league club, " said Dan Jones, partner at Deloitte and editor of the Annual Review of Football Finance.

BBC: Fan website agrees club takeover

For the first 15 years of my career, I wrote mostly investigative feature stories, but now as an editor I am mostly responsible for investing and finance content in Forbes Magazine and on Forbes.com.

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The finance minister gave a frank interview to the BBC's political editor Mark Devenport.

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In a separate case, the BBC's economics editor was found not to have been biased when she said London's finance services accounted for "a tiny fraction" of the UK economy.

BBC: Newsnight breaches BBC's offence rules