In Conversation With: From ISAs To Pensions, Merryn Somerset-Webb Financial Expert Reveals All
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In Conversation... Merryn Somerset-Webb
This week, SL's founder and editor Georgie Coleridge Cole is joined by Editor In Chief of MoneyWeek and financial journalist Merryn Somerset-Webb to discuss the financial impact of Covid-19 and get her expert opinion on all things finance.
The two cover the lasting economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, from whether we're really in a recession right now to what may happen to the housing market. Merryn shares her thoughts on the furlough scheme and how the government has handled the crisis, and makes her predictions for the coming months. Plus, they answer our reader's questions on all things financial, from ISAs to pensions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's in conversation with podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Please remember that duty current lockdown restrictions, we're recording this |
| 0:13.6 | podcast remotely so if the sound is not tip top then do please bear with us. |
| 0:18.2 | Today I'm joined by Merin Somerset Web. |
| 0:21.3 | Merin is a Doyen of personal Finance, she's the editor and chief of Money Week. |
| 0:26.2 | She writes for the FT and the Saga magazine and she's also a bit of a hero of mine. |
| 0:30.9 | We did an event with Meren a few years ago and it had one of the longest waiting lists we've ever had. |
| 0:36.7 | It was a huge hit so it's lovely to be doing a podcast with you today, Merin. Welcome. |
| 0:42.4 | Well thank you for having me on. I remember with you. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 0:44.0 | I remember that event so well. |
| 0:46.0 | Can you imagine now a physical event with drinks and canopays jammed together on chairs |
| 0:51.0 | in a lovely building of a nice view. Those were the days, |
| 0:54.0 | I know you're a busy lady and for people listening that don't follow Merin, don't buy money |
| 0:59.8 | week, you must, because it's a brilliant, brilliant publication. I've said to you before, my husband swears. |
| 1:05.0 | But look, I've got loads of questions to ask you. |
| 1:08.9 | But we've got to start off with COVID. |
| 1:10.6 | How are you? |
| 1:11.2 | You're in Edinburgh. |
| 1:12.1 | How do you feel about COVID? That's a big question, isn't it? But, you know, we're coming out of lockdown. Do you think going into lockdown was the right move? I don't know. And I we will you know this is one of those things that we're going to find out over the next |
| 1:26.4 | six to 12 months we're going to find out whether the downsides of lockdown made the whole |
| 1:30.8 | thing worth it and we're also going to be able to compare what we did |
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