Revealed: Brewin Dolphin's top fund picks for 2018

Ben Gutteridge's top selections

Tom Eckett
clock • 5 min read

This year has been another 12 months of equity markets grinding higher, politics once again having a major influence on markets, most notably in Europe, and central banks beginning to look to taper their monster bond-buying programmes.

Ben Gutteridge (pictured), head of fund research at Brewin Dolphin, has named his top seven funds to look for in 2018 across a variety of asset classes, ranging from emerging markets to global fixed income. Man GLG UK Income fund "Targeting those strategies that provide a premium level of growth at attractive prices, otherwise known as ‘GARP', should make for a sound investment strategy in 2018. Our pick here is the Man GLG UK Income fund, a UK equity income strategy. "When we look at the underlying characteristics of the fund we see both growth and value features and within those v...

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