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Money Maestros

Judge a fund manager: what success looks like, and why fees matter so much.

What’s included

  • 16 pages, in plain English, with charts and examples
  • 8 topics, each a short read
  • A checklist to act on, and sources so you can check every fact
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What’s inside

A Few Companies Do Most Of The Work

  • Two ways to respond
  • Own everything
  • Find a manager

Terry Smith: Buy Good Companies

  • The hard years
  • The lesson
  • Buy good companies, don’t overpay, do nothing

Nick Train: Betting On Brands

  • The hard years
  • The lesson
  • A handful of great British names, held for decades

Tom Slater: Riding The Storm

  • The swings
  • Investment trusts are different
  • Discounts

Lyon And Scriven: Two Different Paths

  • Sebastian Lyon: protecting capital
  • Dominic Scriven: growing with Vietnam
  • Weakness: in strong markets it lags well behind shares

Neil Woodford: The Fall

  • What went wrong
  • The outcome
  • The warning signs

More Managers To Study

  • Skin in the game
  • Keith Ashworth-Lloyd
  • Stephen Yiu

Ten Questions Before You Choose

  • 1. What is the fund trying to do?
  • 2. Can I explain the manager’s method in a sentence?
  • 4. How did it do in the bad years?

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