UK Smart Savings Dilemma: SIPP, ISA or LISA?
On this week's Merryn Talks Your Money personal finance episode, Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek tackle a listener’s question about an issue many young UK professionals face: where should retirem...
11 Mar 10min
Gold, Debt and the AI Boom: A Financial Historian’s Warning
On this week's Merryn Talks Money podcast, host Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with financial historian Edward Chancellor about how energy constraints and geopolitical tensions could reshape markets, whe...
9 Mar 33min
Markets Wrap: War, Energy and the Return of Inflation Risk
Markets have swung sharply as the escalating war in Iran and across the Middle East injects fresh uncertainty into oil prices, inflation, and the path of interest rates. On this week's markets wrap, M...
6 Mar 11min
Exclusive: Rachel Reeves on Iran Shock, US Trade and Inflation Risks
Hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek react to the Spring Statement, plus Bloomberg's exclusive interview with Chancellor Rachel Reeves. She sat down with Head of Economics and Government Stephan...
3 Mar 29min
What Can Quant Trading Strategies Teach Us About Markets?
Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with Simon Judes, chief investment officer of Winton, about how to properly understand quantitative investing. Judes attempts to demystify some of the strategies quantitati...
2 Mar 42min
Markets Wrap: From YOLO to HALO
From YOLO to HALO. In this week's markets wrap, hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek discuss why markets are ditching high multiple AI and software stocks, for "HALO" companies - heavy assets, l...
26 Feb 13min
The 51% Graduate Tax
Many of the graduates whose university costs were funded with Plan 2 student loans are now in their 30s, wondering why they have no money at the end of the month, and why they still owe more student d...
25 Feb 18min
Diversification Play: Why It's Not Too Late to Buy Asia
Fiona Yang, portfolio manager on the Invesco Asia Dragon Trust, joins Merryn Somerset Webb to discuss why global capital rotated from US equities into emerging Asia in 2025—and what she sees happening...
23 Feb 39min
