UK: BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN - WARREN BUFFETT.

US 'investment genius' Warren Buffett has made his mint and his reputation by doing the last thing companies expect - investing for the long term and backing their boards to the hilt.

As eyes for a good business go, one of the few who can justly claim to have near perfect vision is the American investor Warren Buffett. A legend among the stock market fraternity in the US, his talent for spotting undervalued and well-managed companies to invest in has put this 64-year-old businessman, born in Omaha, Nebraska, among the country's wealthiest individuals.