Merryn Somerset Webb: Finance Author

Merryn Somerset Webb is one of my favourite finance and investment authors. She writes for the Financial Times newspaper and is Editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek magazine and has recently published a book on personal finance for women. As a former stock-broker based in Japan and non-executive director of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon, Japanese Investment Trust (BGS), she writes with real in-depth knowledge, but with an interesting, alternative and contrarian view-point, making her work refreshing compared to the majority of financial press.

Merryn studied history and economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, then became a Daiwa scholar, studied Japanese at London University and later moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan's public TV station. In 1993 she became a broker at SBC Warburg, returning to the UK in 1998, Merryn became a financial writer for The Week. In 2000, MoneyWeek was launched and Merryn took the job of editor.

Merryn has published a book on personal finance for women, Love is Not Enough: The Smart Woman's Guide to Making (and Keeping) Money (HarperPress, 2007)

Merryn Somerset Webb is also appearing in a Channel 4 Television programme with her fellow Financial Times columnist Mrs Moneypenny : "SuperScrimpers: Waste Not Want Not"