Trevor Sykes

Trevor Sykes is one Australia's leading finance writers. In a journalistic career spanning more than half a century, he has been Editor of The Bulletin , Editor-in-Chief of Australian Business and Assistant Editor of The Australian Financial Review . He is also the creator of the Pierpont column in which he assumes the identity of a crusty old clubman who surveys the financial world and its scandals through the bottom of a brandy glass at the Croesus Club. His previous books include The Money...See more

Trevor Sykes is one Australia's leading finance writers. In a journalistic career spanning more than half a century, he has been Editor of The Bulletin , Editor-in-Chief of Australian Business and Assistant Editor of The Australian Financial Review . He is also the creator of the Pierpont column in which he assumes the identity of a crusty old clubman who surveys the financial world and its scandals through the bottom of a brandy glass at the Croesus Club. His previous books include The Money Miners (covering the Poseidon boom of 1969 - 70), Two Centuries of Panic , (a history of financial collapses since the arrival of the First Fleet), The Bold Riders (surveying the excesses of the 1980s) and Operation Dynasty (on Warwick Fairfax's takeover of the Fairfax empire). See less