Hidden gems: 19 buyers choose their under-the-radar funds

The Big Question: Which small funds are your hidden gems?

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Selectors pick out the smaller funds which have remained under the investment radar despite strong performance.

Ian Aylward, head of multi-manager research, Aviva Investors   GVO UK Focus The GVO UK Focus fund has less than £200m in assets. while GVO now has a laser-like focus following its recent sale by SVG (the London listed private equity vehicle) to Hansa (the Swiss investment company). Given the team's heritage, its focus remains on embedding a private equity mindset in the investment philosophy. That approach manifests itself by augmenting traditional public equity methods of analysis such as earnings per share growth, and P/E valuations, with private equity methods of analysis such a...

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