Callum Abbot

Portfolio Manager, JPM UK Equity Plus Fund , J.P. Morgan Asset Management

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Shorting away the risks

Shorting away the risks

The key point of difference for JPM UK Equity Plus is its ability to short. In my previous two articles on the JPM UK Equity Plus fund, “Extending the alpha opportunity in UK equity” and “Standing out from the crowd in UK equity”  I explained how shorting gives...

Standing out from the crowd in UK equity

Standing out from the crowd in UK equity

Most equity investors generate returns by buying shares of stocks they think will go up. However, investors can benefit from stocks that they think will go down, using a technique called short selling, or ‘shorting’. To take a short position, an investor borrows the...

Extending the alpha opportunity in UK equity

Extending the alpha opportunity in UK equity

When fund managers have a positive view on a stock, they can buy it and build a position as large as their liquidity and risk parameters allow. In many cases, this can be many times the weight of the stock in the index, significantly increasing the potential to...