A pick-up in share placings, IPO activity and beaten-up companies moving down the market capitalisation scale has the m...
A host of UK smaller companies have reported results ahead of analysts’ expectations in what JPMorgan fund manager Kate...
The UK continues to track along the government’s road map to opening up. All the statistics are moving in the right dir...
A pick-up in share placings, IPO activity and beaten-up companies moving down the market capitalisation scale has the managers of JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies spoilt for choice. Georgina Brittain and Katen Patel have invested selectively with a focus on capturing the...
A host of UK smaller companies have reported results ahead of analysts’ expectations in what JPMorgan fund manager Katen Patel deems to be the start of a strong re-rating for domestic earners. ‘The Covid-19 crisis hit UK company earnings hard last year – mid and small...
JPMorgan Claverhouse has been repositioned twice in the past year – at the height of the coronavirus crisis towards resilient companies and six months later towards more cyclical businesses. ‘It’s been a year like no other,’ said Will Meadon, who runs the UK equity...
JPM UK Equity Plus differentiates itself from its peer group through the ability to short. Fund manager Callum Abbot said “We use shorting as a way to get meaningful underweights in a market with a structure that restricts long only managers from doing so.” A dozen...
In a year when the UK stock market slid 9.8%, the JPM UK Equity Plus long/short fund lost just 8.5% and has added nearly 2% of outperformance per annum since inception. The fund follows the same strategy as many other JPMorgan UK equity funds in looking for stocks...
The continuation of Brexit trade talks is seen as a positive for JPMorgan UK equities fund manager James Illsley. ‘There must have been some ground given for talks to continue. We always knew there would be a lot of posturing and it would go to the wire,’ he said,...
It has been a rollercoaster ride for investors in UK equities – the most unloved stock market in the world – and especially so for fund managers like JPMorgan’s Georgina Brittain whose universe has a domestic focus. For her, a net 35% of global asset allocators being...
JPMorgan fund manager Georgina Brittain likes pleasant surprises and is finding plenty of reasons to delight in recent trading updates. Momentum is one of three factors the veteran mid-cap stock-picker favours, the other two being quality and value, and a host of her...
JP Morgan UK Equity Growth fund manager Kyle Williams sells out of airlines and pubs and fills his basket with e-commerce starlets. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated existing growth trends, the rise of online retail being a notable example and one...
Kyle Williams, co-manager of the JP Morgan UK Equity Growth fund, picks some of his top non-tech themes. For JP Morgan UK Equity Growth fund manager Kyle Williams, the microchip and the internet have been as transformative for life today as the rotary steam engine and...