Article: Q&A: Doel pledges to capture essence of investing.(Interview)

Phil Doel, director of UK equities at F&C Investments and manager of three funds, talks to Hannah Smith.

Q: UK Select Trust's performance improved during the first half of this year. How have you been driving returns?

A: There is quite a lot of overlap between UK Opportunities and the UK Select Trust. The [investment] trust has had a fantastic year - net asset value was 20% ahead at the end of September. It is run in a similar way to UK Opportunities, with three main differences. One is that as it is an investment trust we were able to gear it up to 110% to the middle of September. We also had a couple of holdings that were different to UK ...

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