David Love

David Love was born in 1933, gained a degree in economics from the Australian National University, and went on to head the Australian Financial Review’s Canberra office in the early 1960s. After working for the World Bank in Washington, and taking on the simultaneous jobs of economics editor with the AFR and economics leader writer with the Sydney Morning Herald, he established Syntec, a highly regarded, privately circulated monthly newsletter that analysed business and financial developments for its high-level subscribers. John Fairfax & Sons took a half-share in the business in the mid-1980s, but Mr Love eventually bought out their share, finally selling the business to Access Economics in 1998. Mr Love is also the author of Straw Polls, Paper Money (2001).