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Having invested in China for more than two decades, Martin Lau, manager of FSSA Greater China Growth fund, is ideally placed to explain what is happening with real estate giant Evergrande. He explains the issues in the Chinese property market and why the government is keen to tackle high prices, puts the regulatory interventions of the past few months into perspective, and reassures investors that...

Anthony Cross has managed the Liontrust Special Situations fund since its launch in 2005. In this podcast, he tells us why the valuation of a stock may not matter if the company can compound over time. He discusses the attractions of BP and Shell and goes into detail about the intangible assets he and his co-managers look for when investing in a firm. Anthony also discusses the importance of compa...

John Stopford and Jason Borbora-Sheen became managers of Ninety One Cautious Managed in May 2020. In this podcast, Jason discusses the performance of the fund and the changes made since they took. He also tells us why risks are increasing for equities, reveals why he likes emerging market bonds, financials and healthcare and gives his outlook for both equities and bonds in the next 12-18 months. L...

Lesley Dunn, co-manager of Baillie Gifford Strategic Bond fund, talks to us about how company balance sheets are recovering after the pandemic. She discusses the amount of money firms had to borrow to keep themselves afloat in lockdown, the price they had to pay to do so, and how some are now looking to reduce their debt. Lesley also gives her view on inflation and discusses the investment case fo...

John Citron, co-manager of JPMorgan Emerging Markets trust, tells us how emerging markets have changed over the past decade. He also discusses the new sectors that are appearing and the new opportunities that are available. John also reveals that Walmex is the trust’s longest-standing holding and tells us why it has been such a good investment for almost 30 years and why it remains so today. He al...

Neil Goddin, co-manager of Artemis Positive Future fund, tells us how a bout of gout led him to invest in Beyond Meat. He explains how the new fund targets companies making positive environmental and social impacts and discusses the healthcare and education sectors and the opportunities their lack of innovation to date is creating for disruptive companies. Neil discloses that the two key questions...

In an investment version of the game “Would you rather…”, Darius McDermott, managing director of FundCalibre and Chelsea Financial Services, gives his views on the current opportunities in the market. Discussing interest rates, China, absolute return funds, bonds, Bitcoin and more. Learn more on fundcalibre.com Please remember, we’ve been discussing individual companies to bring investing to life...

David Walton, manager of Marlborough European Multi-Cap fund, tells us why so many European companies are still undiscovered by investors. We learn why a small population in Sweden can be beneficial to company growth and why difficult politics in Italy can lead to good opportunities. The podcast ends with a discussion about M&A activity picking up on the Continent. Learn more on fundcalibre.co...

David Coombs, manager of Rathbone Strategic Growth Portfolio, talks to us about a range of alternative investments and how you can make money from the volatility in emerging market currencies and interest rate expectations. He also talks about the idiosyncratic risk in music royalties, using Taylor Swift as an example, and tells us about investing in the entire retail value chain and the companies...

Church House Tenax Absolute Return Strategies co-manager James Mahon tells us why low bond prices have caused more confusion than conviction in the market at the moment – and why he thinks it will result in numerous bouts of volatility. He also tells us why the global economy was not prepared for the bottleneck in demand for production and staff availability, resulting in higher than expected infl...

“Insurance is a get rich slow kind of an industry” says Nick Martin, manager of Polar Capital Global Insurance fund. But while my parents may have hidden from the door-to-door insurance salesman of the 1980s for fear of having to listen to an hour-long monologue, the industry is anything but boring for investors. Nick talks us through mother nature and the emergence of secondary perils, how coral...

While inflation numbers have picked up sharply in the US and the UK, Japan is still battling deflation. John-Paul Temperley, deputy manager of AXA Framlington Japan fund, tells us why women could play an important role in getting inflation back into the economy, describes the “stealth move” of the Japanese stock market and tells us that while Japan may not have the sexy internet companies of the U...

Juliet Schooling Latter and Darius McDermott return to discuss the major issues impacting markets in the second quarter of 2021. They talk about top performing Brazilian equities, European real estate funds and UK smaller companies. With inflation proving stickier than first anticipated, they give their views on how high prices could go, before discusses whether the big technology companies have b...

Simon Moon, manager of the Unicorn UK Smaller Companies fund, tell us why smaller companies are the place to be in this stage of the economic recovery. He also talks us through why small-caps can be leaders in the ESG space, despite being overlooked by a number of credit rating agencies. He also explains why a business like Braemar Shipping Services can benefit from the blocking of the Suez Canal...

Every year, European companies source more and more of their revenues from outside the continent. In this podcast, Niall Gallagher, manager of GAM Star Continental European Equity, tells us about this, the debt-laden balance sheets of long-haul carriers, and why private equity firms find it harder to make takeover bids in Europe than in the UK. With pricing power beginning to return along with ver...

Charles Luke, manager of the Murray Income Trust, tell us the UK mid-cap space is an overlooked and under-appreciated segment of the market, which is full of companies with excellent growth potential. He also talks us through his investment in Moonpig and why cards could be a trojan horse for the untapped online gifting market. He also goes into detail about how he builds a portfolio that can do w...

Nick Clay, manager of TM RWC Global Equity Income fund, tells us about his new fund, the old favourites he’s invested in, and explains how he achieves a yield 25% greater than that of the market. He discusses reappraising the inequalities in society, interest rates, inflation and the market’s obsession with growth stocks. Finally, he tells us how the income opportunities in the US have grown and w...

From tax returns to elective surgeries, and from national grids to who’s watching what on TV, there are plenty of attractive franchise opportunities to be found around the world. In this interview, Bertrand Cliquet, co-manager of Lazard Global Equity Franchise fund, tells us about the three ways he and the team make money for investors, why they don’t hold Amazon and why cryptocurrency gains could...

Rebecca Jiang, co-manager of the JPM China Growth & Income Trust, talks us through the growing opportunity in the A-Shares market and the importance of tapping into structural growth themes like technology, healthcare and consumption as China moves to a capital light growth model. She also tells us about the Chinese governments’ ESG agenda and why fears of inflation will not lead to another co...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be in charge of a ‘stock’ of fund managers? (it’s the best idea for a collective noun we could find ongoogle). In a slightly different interview to the norm, Stephanie Butcher,chief investment officer at Invesco reveals all. She tells us about her roleand discusses diversity and inclusion projects and unconscious bias. Shedescribes the work she does with sc...

Laura Bottega, managing director and lead portfolio specialist on the Morgan Stanley Global Brands fund, discusses the growth vs value conundrum, rising inflation and the benefits of scale. She highlights the companies that, during the pandemic, used the time to invest in their digital offerings, to expand e-commerce and social media and to advance the new trend of hyper-personalisation, and discu...

In a slightly different format to the usual Investing on the Go podcast, Morgan Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, and Mick Dillon, manager of Brown Advisory Global Leaders fund discuss behavioural finance and the psychology of money. They cover 19-year-old Robinhood investors trading 5,000 a day and why long-term investing is not intuitive to young people, why Baby Boomers are more wo...

John Bennett, manager of Janus Henderson European Focus, takes us on an eloquent journey around the continent in this podcast. With topics including V-shaped recoveries 1.0 and 2.0, the great tug of war between growth and value, how the S&P 500 became the S&P5, jumping on the ESG bandwagon, wooden satellite experiments, the winner in the salmon vs red meat argument and the posturing of Pre...

Richard Sennitt, the new lead manager for Schroder Asian Alpha Plus fund, talks to us about taking over the fund. He discusses the outlook for Asia, tells us which sectors and countries he favours, and gives his views on the ongoing trade wars between China and the US. He also tells us why US interest rates and bond yields should be less of an issue for Asia today and explains why Northern Asian e...

In a slightly different format to usual, Juliet Schooling Latter and Darius McDermott discuss the major issues impacting markets in the first quarter of 2021. They explain the rising yield curve and why it matters for investors and outline why value has started to outperform growth. With social media groups influencing stock markets they also discuss how fund managers have dealt with the investmen...