Asset manager Miton has appointed top-performing manager Andrew Jackson to run CF Miton UK Value Opportunities Fund (GB00B8QW1M42), as its managers Georgina Hamilton and George Godber are leaving to go to Polar Capital. Mr Jackson used to work at Ecclesiastical Investment Management, now known as EdenTree.
Mr Jackson ran EdenTree UK Equity Growth Fund (GB0008445982) between November 2003 and July 2015, over which time the fund returned 263.7 per cent against the Investment Association UK All Companies sector average of 153.3 per cent, and 151.5 per cent for the FTSE All Share Index. Mr Jackson left Edentree in July 2015.
He will take over CF Miton UK Value Opportunities after the departure of Mr Godber and Ms Hamilton, under whose management this fund grew its assets from £211m to £589.6m.