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Last month, star manager Terry Smith announced he was throwing £25m of his own money behind a new investment trust, Smithson. Ahead of its launch, Money Marketing editor Justin Cash sat down with Simon Barnard and Will Morgan, the fund’s managers, to talk strategy, as well as their thoughts on some of the hottest topics in investments.
City star Terry Smith has revealed plans for a new investment trust focused on global small and mid-sized companies. Smith's self-titled firm Fundsmith will roll out the Smithson Investment Trust with the aim of finding and investing in 25 to 40 of the world's best small and medium-sized companies.
FT article on the launch of Smithson Investment Trust
Fundsmith has developed a considerable fan club of investors and it is not difficult to see why. The Fundsmith Equity fund topped the bestseller lists of both the Bestinvest and AJ Bell DIY investment platforms last year and has returned a whopping 266 per cent in a little over seven years since it was launched.
Terry Smith has emerged as Britain’s top investment performer once again after another year of stellar returns.
Fundsmith, the asset management company run by British stock-picker Terry Smith, said on Wednesday it was launching a fund to tap growing demand from institutional clients in sustainable investment.
Terry Smith, the British investor, is targeting institutional investors by launching a fund that shuns “sin stocks”, including pornography, oil and tobacco.
John Chatfeild Roberts, who runs the £6.7 billion Merlin multi-asset funds, has revealed the investments he is making for protection in the event of a market correction.
The Telegraph report that Terry Smith has invested a further £115m in to Fundsmith, bringing his total investment in the fund to £200m.
In this article, Citywire reports that Fundsmith attracted net inflows of £1 billion in Q2. The article notes that Q2 was a tough period across the industry but that Fundsmith's performance propelled the group into the top 10 managers by gross sales for the first time in its history.
In this video by AJ Bell Investcentre, Ross Mould discusses Fundsmith, its strategy and the type of companies it invests in and why.
This week Ben Gutteridge interviews internationally acclaimed money manager Terry Smith, Chief Executive & CIO of Fundsmith. First on the agenda is Fundsmith’s Investment Philosophy which governs the decision making process but also shows clear differentiation from the competition.
The Evening Standard - Terry Smith's book is a must-read for everyone in the market
The Evening Standard - Terry Smith achieves goal of producing the number one risk-adjusted fund
When Terry Smith launched his boutique back in 2010 not everyone was convinced he could make it in the funds world.
Fundsmith today announces that personal finance and investment publication, Money Observer, has awarded the Fundsmith Equity Fund (“Fundsmith Equity” or the “Fund”) a Rated Fund status. Money Observer has also included Fundsmith Equity in three of their model growth portfolios, recognising the Fund’s “impressive performance”.
If you are wondering how to put together a portfolio of equity investments, you could do worse than visit the website for Fundsmith and download lots of relevant documents. These will give you an insight in a particular type of equity investing that I will caricature as ‘Buffett Mk 2.0’.
The outspoken chief executive has delivered table-topping returns with only a little tinkering on his £1.5bn Fundsmith fund.
Evening Standard - Old-fashioned way pays off for Smith
What has become clear following RDR is that a large number of different parties receive payments from investment funds. The traditional charging structure on funds was ‘bundled’ so a single annual management charge (AMC) was deducted by the fund company to pay the cost of managing the investments, platform services and the annual commission payment to a financial adviser.
