Merryn somerset webb biography books

British personal finance journalist

Merryn Rosemary Somerset Webb (born 23 June ), is a Senior Columnist at Bloomberg writing about wealth, investing and personal finance and is a radio and television commentator on financial matters.^[1]

Life and career

She attended Wycombe Abbey, a boarding school in the UK.^[2][3] After gaining a first class degree in History & Economics as a senior scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Webb was awarded a Daiwa scholarship and spent a year studying for a master's degree in Japaneselanguage at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. In , she moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan's public television station.^[4]

In , she became an institutional broker for SBC Warburg in Tokyo, where she stayed for five years. Returning to London in , to work for BNP Paribas, she later became a financial writer for The Week. Two years later, in , she took on the role of launch editor for the financial weekly MoneyWeek.^[4]

In she wrote her first book Love is Not Enough, a personal finance book aimed at women. In she co-presented Superscrimpers for Channel 4.^{[citation needed]}

In , Somerset-Webb was awarded an honorary doctorate in Business Administration from BPP University for her contribution to financial journalism.^{[citation needed]}

Somerset-Webb is a non-executive director of two investment trusts; the Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon Trust and the Montanaro European Smaller Companies Trust.^{[citation needed]}

In Somerset-Webb published her second book Share Power,

In she became a Senior Columnist at Bloomberg writing about wealth, investing and personal finance.

Awards

Somerset-Webb has won multiple awards for her journalism, including;

Bibliography

Somerset Webb, Merryn (20 April ). Love is Not Enough: A Smart Woman's Guide to Making (and Keeping) Money. HarperPerennial. ISBN&#;.

Somerset Webb, Merryn (20 January ). Share Power: How ordinary people can change the way that capitalism works - and make money too. Short Books. ISBN&#;.

References

External links

"Somerset Webb's website". Archived from the original on 4 July
"Merryn Somerset Webb". MoneyWeek.
"Merryn Somerset Webb". 5th Estate. HarperCollins.
"Merryn Somerset Webb". Your Money – Columnists. Financial Times.
"Merryn Somerset Webb archive". London Stock Exchange. Archived from the original on 20 September
"Articles". Spectator.
Sophie Morris (1 September ). "My Life In Media: Merryn Somerset Webb". The Independent. Retrieved 11 October