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Keith Ashworth-Lord has consistently outperformed and shuns UK negativity
December 30, 2020
  • Five-year returns more than double FTSE All-Share
  • Invests in companies across the market cap spectrum

There are few UK evangelists quite like Keith Ashworth-Lord. The manager of the CFP SDL UK Buffettology Fund (GB00BF0LDZ31) used a recent interview with the Investors’ Chronicle to dismiss some of the bearish sentiment on domestic stocks as “an absolute load of trash”.

November rally aside, UK shares remains highly divisive. Yet SDL UK Buffettology is among the few funds to make impressive returns from the market in good times and bad. The fund generated an 80 per cent total return in the five years to 14 December, more than double that of the FTSE All-Share and the average UK equity growth fund. It has beaten the index in all but one full calendar year since its 2011 launch.

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