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Chelverton fund manager James Baker keen on UK small caps

Published: 10:13 13 Jan 2016 GMT

Proactive speaks to James Baker, lead manager of Chelverton UK Equity Growth fund, about his investment strategy and top picks for 2016.

The fund, which has returned over 23 per cent to investors over the past twelve months, focuses on small and mid-cap stocks and has a bias towards media, technology, healthcare and industrial sectors.

“We have a simple investment strategy,” says Baker. “We like profitable businesses, predictable sales and growth outpacing UK GDP.

Email marketing specialist dotDigital (LON:DOTD), software firm IMImobile (LON:IMO) and Victrex (LON:VCT), a plastics manufacturer, are among Baker’s favourite stocks.

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