Feb 8, 2013

Can your fund manager move with the times?

Merryn Sommerset Webb

What is needed to win in a low-growth era?

Feb 1, 2013

A new take on the active vs passive debate

Fund investors might be smarter than we thought

Jan 25, 2013

Another industry managing quite nicely thank you

Wealth managers are an expensive option for many

Jan 18, 2013

Sterling pulls ahead in race for the bottom

It’s hard to find any reasons to be upbeat about the pound

Jan 11, 2013

Banks ignore the spirit of RDR

This is not the revolution in transparency we were expecting

Dec 14, 2012

This time Japan has a yen for change

A weaker currency could boost Japanese shares

Nov 23, 2012

Never forget that elephants don’t gallop

Traditionally, small-caps have outperformed. They should do so again

Nov 16, 2012

Chinese shares are just not cheap enough

Chinese companies are not what many investors think

Nov 9, 2012

1950s lesson for the boom in bonds

Pension funds now own more bonds than equities

Oct 26, 2012

The cost of growing old frugally

Older people spend less, so expect lower GDP growth in future

Oct 19, 2012

Going soft on the commodities supercycle

Metals may have seen their best gains, but softs could yet soar

Oct 12, 2012

A small island of good in a sea of bad

I’m learning about the awful products the industry has sold

Oct 5, 2012

A brief history of hyperinflations

Iranian-style hyperinflation is a lot more common than you might imagine

Sep 28, 2012

The day that really changed the world

Collapse of Lehmans was more significant than 9/11

Sep 21, 2012

The long-term price you pay for yield

Most funds charge their costs to capital, not income

Sep 14, 2012

Extrapolate away, but nothing lasts forever

China and Burberry offer latest evidence

Sep 7, 2012

Property treading water? Sinking, more like

Prime central London is propping up house price indices

Aug 31, 2012

Look to the east for cheap yield

Japan is not an obvious choice, but it should be

Aug 24, 2012

Euro defies gravity – but not for much longer

To keep eurozone broad money supply from contracting will take a whopping €3tn

Aug 17, 2012

Gold’s glittering future? We’ve seam it before

History suggests that gold mining shares could stage a rally

ABOUT MERRYN

Merryn Somerset Webb 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.

E-mail merryn@ft.com