Talking with … Merian Global Investors' Richard Buxton

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Merian Global Investors head of UK equities Richard Buxton talks not retiring, not abandoning value investing and not giving up on making a perfect tarte tatin, with Richard Romer-Lee

In your 34th year of investing, what sustains your drive? I still love investment, meeting companies, trying to judge the mood of the market to work out what is going on in the macro. After three and a half years both running money and helping to run the business, it is a huge relief to be fully devoted back to picking stocks. Following some recent high-profile retirements, might you be next? Indeed, Ian Spreadbury, Andrew Rose and Nigel Thomas have all retired - but I am still hugely passionate about investing in this business and I have absolutely no aspirations to put my feet up. ...

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