Best of: How Do You Pick the Best Wealth Manager?

For today's show we're bringing you an evergreen episode that we found really insightful last summer and the lessons remain valid for today. The more than $100 trillion wealth transfer that’s projected to be passed down from older to younger generations over the next quarter century is set to resh…

Why the Price of Gold Reflects a Long-Term Shift

Investors have flocked to gold in the past year, prompting the precious metal to notch a series of price records and eclipse its inflation-adjusted peak from 1980. Friday’sFed-announcement drama notwithstanding, the price of gold is up 13% so far this year. It even smashed through $5,000 per troy o…

Markets Weekly: Gold’s Moves, Yen Intervention, and Fallout From a Weaker Dollar

Precious metals seem to be hitting new all-time highs almost every week. On this week's markets wrap, Money Distilled author and senior reporter John Stepek joins Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marcus Ashworth to debate what’s driving the rally. They also unpack US intervention in the Japanese currenc…

How Much Insurance Do You Really Need?

On this week’s personal finance edition of Merryn Talks Money, Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek break down the insurance cover that really matters as we head into 2026. They’re joined by Kevin Ryan, a consumer insurance expert and analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, who shares what’s shifting in…

In Greenland with Pippa Malmgren: Why the Arctic Is the New Geopolitical Battleground

Pippa Malmgren, chief executive of Geopolitica Institute, joins from Greenland to explain why the Arctic is now at the center of the geopolitical chessboard — from US claims that it needs to take over the Danish territory for national security reasons to how Greenlanders want to remain independent …

Markets Weekly: Japan’s Bond Shock and the Global Ripple Effect

Geopolitical tensions have grabbed the headlines this week, but the market turmoil is being driven as much by the Japanese government bond market as by anything coming out of Davos. Hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek look at what's going on. They also discuss the growing list of reasons why…

Asking Prices vs Reality: The True State of the Housing Market

Are UK house prices really taking off — or is something else at play? On this week’s personal finance edition of Merryn Talks Money, Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek dig into the latest eye-catching figures and reveal why the “surge” may not be quite what it seems. From the powerful role of loc…

GMO's Jeremy Grantham on buying start-ups, an AI bubble and why the small-cap premium is a myth

For more than four decades, Jeremy Grantham has been one of the most contrarian voices in global investing. The co-founder of Boston-based asset manager GMO, he built his reputation warning about bubbles before they burst, from Japanese equities in the late 1980s to US tech stocks in 2000 and housi…

Silver’s Surge, Oil’s Bounce, London Flat Prices and the Quiet Gilt Rally

On this week’s market round-up edition of Merryn Talks Money, Bloomberg senior reporter and author of the award-winning Money Distilled newsletter, John Stepek and Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marcus Ashworth discuss why falling London flat prices but rising costs mean bargains may still be illusory…

You’ve Spent Your Life Saving. Now Learn How to Spend

  Most people spend their working lives earning and saving toward a financial goal. This goal can be a number or something more tangible like a paid-off mortgage. But when you’ve spent decades feeding the same frugality habit, entering retirement and reversing that addiction can be an unfamiliar c…