Six of the best books for investors

Merryn Somerset Webb recommends six books for investors – from bitcoin to investment trusts, via fish and horses.

I have just hung a vast print of a painting by Trevor Jones on my office wall. One reason for this is that it is an excellent portrait of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, who may or may not have been the original developer of cryptocurrency bitcoin (the developer used this name, but this person is not necessarily the developer).

Another is that Jones uses old copies of the Financial Times as the background for some of his paintings and my byline photo features just behind Nakamoto's left ear. I am vain enough to like this. But the best reason for having it up is that it works as a constant reminder that bubbles of one sort or another are never far away.

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Merryn Somerset Webb

Merryn Somerset Webb started her career in Tokyo at public broadcaster NHK before becoming a Japanese equity broker at what was then Warburgs. She went on to work at SBC and UBS without moving from her desk in Kamiyacho (it was the age of mergers).

After five years in Japan she returned to work in the UK at Paribas. This soon became BNP Paribas. Again, no desk move was required. On leaving the City, Merryn helped The Week magazine with its City pages before becoming the launch editor of MoneyWeek in 2000 and taking on columns first in the Sunday Times and then in 2009 in the Financial Times

Twenty years on, MoneyWeek is the best-selling financial magazine in the UK. Merryn was its Editor in Chief until 2022. She is now a senior columnist at Bloomberg and host of the Merryn Talks Money podcast -  but still writes for Moneyweek monthly. 

Merryn is also is a non executive director of two investment trusts – BlackRock Throgmorton, and the Murray Income Investment Trust.