Wealth Club hands new Quality Shares portfolio to ex-HL manager Huggins

Discretionary shares portfolio

Valeria Martinez
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Wealth Club has launched its first discretionary shares portfolio, named Quality Shares, which will be managed by former Hargreaves Lansdown manager Charlie Huggins, Investment Week can reveal.

Prior to joining Wealth Club in April 2022 after ten years at Hargreaves Lansdown, with five of those as a fund manager, Huggins was the lead manager of the HL Select Growth Shares fund, as well as a co-manager of the HL Select UK Income Shares fund, with a combined AUM of £500m.  The portfolio will be composed of 15 to 20 companies in North America, the UK and Europe with long-term capital growth prospects, resilient business models, competitive advantages, "exceptional" cash generation and strong cultures. Huggins, head of equities at Wealth Club, said: "We have called this the Qual...

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