Eight investment funds to consider

With stock-market returns expected to disappoint for years to come, investors need to seek out small, cheap funds, says Merryn Somerset Webb. Here, she looks at eight funds that fit the bill.

I've had an email from a reader complaining that I am obsessed with funds, wealth managers, fees, charges and the retail distribution review (RDR). In the old days, he says, I used to tell you more exciting things what was going to happen in the eurozone; how the UK public finances were going to implode; and how the end-game of the financial crisis was very high inflation.

Flicking back through recent columns, I see that he is absolutely right. Towards the end of last year, I suddenly came over all micro. I think I can put my finger on what happened.

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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.