This year has been brimming with opportunity and rife with risk for value managers like Ian Butler. The stock market sell-off in March allowed him to add defensive names at knock-down prices to a portfolio typically populated with cyclicals. However, global lockdowns...
Companies might struggle to post profits this year, but JPM UK Smaller Companies fund manager Georgina Brittain has her sights set on 2021 and beyond. ‘Don’t just think about the here and now,’ she said. ‘This year will be a write-off in profit terms for some...
The Peter Hargreaves-backed Blue Whale Growth fund has defied the recent market volatility to grow by more than £100m since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. The fund, which has returned 58.6% since inception in September 2017 to 10 June and...
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...
‘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...
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...
FTSE companies that suspend dividend payments as a result of current market uncertainty will be expected to restart them ‘as soon as it is prudent to do so’, the Investment Association (IA) has said. In a letter sent to all FTSE chairs on behalf of its members...
The FTSE 100 has fallen as hopes of a slowdown in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic faded, insurers weighed after cancelling their dividends and Tesco (TSCO) cooled bullishness on the supermarket sector after warning on costs. The UK blue-chip index...
The FTSE 100 has rallied after a slowdown in coronavirus deaths in France and Italy over the weekend, while European governments began preparations to ease lockdowns put in place to contain the spread of the pandemic. The UK blue-chip index jumped 93 points, or 1.7%...
Value has experienced its longest period in the doldrums since the great depression of the 1930s and is now cheaper rel...
It has been great to have test cricket being played again. A sport I am utterly useless at (and one I found pretty dull...
This year has been brimming with opportunity and rife with risk for value managers like Ian Butler. The stock market se...
