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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. - -
Merryn Somerset Webb: Liars should put their house in order
Much fuss this week about the Financial Service Authority’s (FSA) review of the mortgage market.
Merryn Somerset Webb: Buy these cheap outperformers - while you still can
Investment trusts are cheap, they’re easy to buy and they easily outperform most other funds in rising markets. Buy them while you still can
It’s too early to sing a requiem for the dollar
The dollar looks just about dead. The US is running a massive trade deficit, has an almost unfeasibly large budget deficit and offers basically no yield at all to anyone dumb enough to hold its currency.
It’s too early to sing a requiem for the dollar
The dollar looks just about dead. The US is running a massive trade deficit, has an almost unfeasibly large budget deficit and offers basically no yield at all to anyone dumb enough to hold its currency.
Only cash can unite you from the freaky market
There was a time when David Swansen was every investor’s hero. Under his stewardship the Yale University endowment fund outperformed pretty much every other fund in the world between 1985 and 2008 and became the subject of a million business school seminars in the process.
Japan adds spice to the dinner table conversation
I had dinner this week with friends from my Japanese stockbroking days. They have not gone back into the market. So the question round the table was: is it too late?
Merryn Somerset Webb: Give me gold sovereigns over paper currency
If, like me, you believe a perfect storm is just getting going in the currency markets, it’s now a question of how – not if – to buy gold
Going for gold
I’ve been a gold bug for nearly ten years. It’s been good: the dollar price of gold has nearly quadrupled since 2000. It has also been easy.
Merryn Somerset Webb: No jam tomorrow for retailers
I made jam tarts the other day. many of my friends also bake. It is one of the classic symptoms of collapsing consumer confidence
The euro feels the strain
There was much excitement this week among the “worst is over” crowd as Germany and France reported GDP growth of 0.3 per cent.
