Jane's Darwin to launch rival to M&G Cautious Multi Asset

David Jane is preparing to roll out the first offering from his new boutique, Darwin Investment Managers, and is making plans for a second absolute-return focused product later this year.

The TM Darwin Multi Asset fund will open its offer period at the start of May, with the official launch date slated for the end of the month. The second fund will be a total return multi-asset fund, which is expected to come to the market in September. Darwin Multi Asset will be modelled on the M&G Cautious Multi Asset fund Jane launched when he was head of equity investments at the group. “It will be very like the old fund I ran at M&G because I designed it,” Jane says. “My stock selection process is the same. I identify attractive positive long-term themes and find stocks that ...