Managers' top contrarian trades revealed

What is your most interesting contrarian position?

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Fund managers explain why they are going against the herd with their stock, sector and country allocations.

  John William Olsen, manager, M&G Global Growth fund   Indivior    Indivior is a single-product pharma company producing addiction cessation treatments. It was created at the end of last year from the spin-off of the pharmaceuticals division of Reckitt Benckiser.  A few things occurred at the time that created a genuine contrarian opportunity. The spin-off happened on 23 December when a lot of market participants were on holiday, so volumes were low and Indivior subsequently dropped out of the FTSE 100, causing index trackers to sell out.  Plus, a number of investors in ...

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