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...Canada Life, Fisch Asset Management, Barings, HSBC and SVM have all announced plans to pay for research themselves in the past two weeks....
...Neil McCarthy, investment analyst at Heron House Financial Management, advocates a similarly global approach, by holding the SVM Global investment trust....
...But 195 funds were more volatile than the index, headed by SVM UK Opportunities, with a standard deviation of 36.4 per cent....
...Gains are still there to be made for the discerning investor, believes Colin McLean, managing director of SVM Asset Management, if stock selection is carefully scrutinised....
...These include Tim Russell at Cazenove, Roger Guy, manager of Gartmore’s new European absolute return fund and Colin McLean, manager of SVM’s new Absolute Alpha fund....
...Colin McLean is managing director at SVM Asset Management...
...Over a cup of tea in the City, Colin McLean, managing director of SVM Asset Management, put it to me that investors are still misunderstanding banks’ fundamentals and misinterpreting hedge funds’ positions...
...It is Barcelona-based but has offices in Cuba, has real, tangible investments on the ground and boasts investment trust SVM Global and hedge fund Value Catalyst as investors....
...Colin McLean, UK active fund manager at SVM Asset Management, warns that institutions may be wary of floats not handled by reputable brokers....
...“We are certainly not adding to [Russian exposure] just now,” says Colin McLean, fund manager at SVM. “It’s not that there’s been any policy change on our part....
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