UK smaller companies funds have produced more than double the returns of funds with a larger or multi-cap focus in the four years since the EU referendum. The average return in the IA UK smaller companies sector in the four years to 22 June is 32.3% – 130% more than...
Technology is not a conventional stomping ground for income investors but is proving an important source of returns for Citywire AAA-rated JP Morgan manager Katen Patel. He is finding opportunities in companies that play to such themes as digitisation and the energy...
Seismic shifts in the way the world works – from flexible working to online shopping – bode well for JPM UK Equity Income, which looks across sectors and the market capitalisation spectrum to capitalise on trends such as digitation and low-cost home ownership. We...
‘[Covid-19] is a health crisis, a social crisis, a financial crisis and an institutional crisis all rolled up, each feeding off the other, and it’s on a global scale'. Will Meadon, JPMorgan, Claverhouse investment Trust. As equity markets started their descent into...
‘The nifty 50 was a phenomenon in the US in the 60s when earnings were scarce... Today, it is the tech giants – almost a nifty five’ Will Meadon, JPMorgan Claverhouse investment trust. Housebuilders, life assurers and online retailers are among Will Meadon’s ‘new...
Bus operator National Express, fashion retailer Next and airline Wizz Air are among the ‘quality’ businesses that JP Morgan fund manager James Illsley, who holds a Citywire + rating, has been buying at knockdown prices. They stand to be the comeback kings in their...
An investment strategy that focuses on high-quality companies and is well diversified across investment styles and sectors should stand UK equity investors in good stead when the ‘skies clear’, according to JP Morgan fund manager James Illsley. ‘Don’t ask me about...
Retail is a sector ripe with opportunity for long/short JPMorgan fund manager Callum Abbot, but it is not a simple case of buying the e-tailers and selling the high street names. ‘Disruption has been a huge theme for a number of years now – the advent of the internet...
JPM UK Equity Plus shorted eight out of 10 of the worst performing UK stocks last year and did not own the other two, positioning that contributed more than 3.3% of alpha for the year. The ability to short stocks is a defining feature of the fund and differentiates it...
Galvanised by the general election result and ‘Boris bounce’, savers poured £1.3 billion into UK equity funds in December – inflows not seen since 2013. This new-found confidence was felt across the UK commercial community, with demand for funds investing in large,...