Two 'boring' funds in the Buffett mould

Warren Buffett's style is 'boring and irritating', says Merryn Somerset Webb, but his investment record is second to none. Here, she tips two capital-preserving funds that stick to the Buffett philosophy of 'proper value'.

Back in 2005, after a visit to Warren Buffett's shareholders' meeting, I wrote an article in which I was mildly critical. I called the event "boring and irritating".

I said I loathed the folksy atmosphere Buffett and his sidekick Charlie Munger created. I just didn't buy into the whole plain-speaking, home town-living, wise-cracking, coke-swigging PR picture or the pressure to buy Buffett products (jewellery, furniture, steak...).

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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.