Merrill Lynch, Poppy Buxton

Buxton's Merrill Lynch trust is looking to the alternative energy sector as an increasingly attractive bet against a background of spiralling prices

Click here to download pdf With the volatile oil price remaining stubbornly high, the alternative energy market is becoming increasingly attractive, according to Poppy Buxton, co-manager of the Merrill Lynch New Energy Technology investment trust. Admitting the alternatives sector, which can be split into a number of diverse subsections, is inherently risky, Buxton said that many of the companies within it are now starting to mature. On a global scale, government policy is becoming more and more supportive of alternative energies with cross-border treaties such as Kyoto being ratified wh...