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Merryn Somerset Webb is the Editor of MoneyWeek.
After gaining a first class degree in History & Economics at Cambridge, Merryn became a Daiwa scholar and spent a year studying Japanese at London University. In 1992, she moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan’s public TV station.
In 1993, she became an institutional broker for SBC Warburg, where she stayed for 5 years. Returning to the UK in 1998, Merryn became a financial writer for The Week. Two years later, in 2000, MoneyWeek was launched and Merryn took the job of editor. - -
A glimmer of a chance to save face in Japan
It’s always horrible to feel responsible for other people losing money but when it comes to Japan I really feel the pain: my own Isa is stuffed with Japan-related investments. So the fact that the Nikkei 225 was one of the world’s worst performing markets last year hasn’t exactly brought forward my retirement date.
Rescue rumours require a reality check
Deep in Cathar country in the south-west of France is a small village called Bugarach. To the uninformed eye, there isn’t much to distinguish it from the hundreds of other villages dotted around the Pyrenean foothills. But here a smallish bungalow recently changed hands for a rumoured €400,000, writes Merryn Somerset Webb
