Due to holidays Sam and Jon are unable to record this week so are releasing an interview from the archives.

This episode was originally released on 29 December 2021.

In this episode Sam interviews John Kingham, author of The Defensive Value Investor. John invests in high quality UK dividend stocks and launched the dividend stocks newsletter in 2011 (https://www.ukdividendstocks.com/).

Before launching the investment newsletter in 2011, John worked as a software analyst in the insurance industry. John been investing in UK stocks since 1995 and in 2007, he set up UKValueInvestor.com and started publishing his investment research as a series of blog posts which eventually turned into the newsletter.

In 2012, Harriman House asked John to write a book about his approach to investing. In 2016 The Defensive Value Investor finally made it into bookstores all over the UK.

John has also written regularly for other publications, including Master Investor Magazine and The Property Chronicle.