Artemis' Littlewood on living up to great expectations

INTERVIEW

May 2009 saw one of the more hotly anticipated launches of recent times as William Littlewood returned to running retail money. Here he talks to Julian Marr, editorial director of Marketing-hub.co.uk, about Artemis Strategic Assets' first year and future prospects

Investors can have the memories of goldfish but, when it comes to people who have made them money, their powers of recall markedly improve. Thus the return to retail fund management of Littlewood, whose stewardship of Jupiter Income made it a must-have holding in the 1990s, was greeted with great excitement. One year on, has his £567m Artemis Strategic Assets portfolio lived up to expectations? Objective “The fund’s objective is to beat cash and equities over rolling three-year periods while looking to be as fully invested as possible in rising markets and offering some – but definitel...