Fund manager: Aled Smith
Products available: ISA, OEIC & Savings Plan
The Fund's objective is long term capital growth through investment in North American securities. It may also invest in Canada, and in companies which are listed, registered or trading within North America.
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The fund manager seeks to identify the best stocks from all sectors, size ranges, and phases of the company life cycle (growth, fading, mature and recovery). No top-down views are imposed on sector choices and there is no reference to a benchmark in the stock selection process.
Aled Smith joined M&G in December 2000 as a global equity fund manager before being appointed Head of Equity Research in September 2003. In December 2004, Michael Stiasny took over as Head of Equity Research allowing Aled to fully focus on fund management.
Aled worked at JP Morgan for eight years, four of these as a specialist senior analyst for the media sector. His responsibilities included stock selection for around $100 million of funds and allocating appropriate portfolio weightings to the media stocks that he covered. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Aled was an Actuarial Consultant for Coopers & Lybrand from 1989 to 1992.
He graduated from Oxford University, with a BA in Mathematics in 1989. In 1995 he successfully completed the CFA qualification.
In addition to the fund data that can be found by accessing the menu to the left of this page you may also wish to read the fund key features document which contains further fund information.