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As Christopher Nolan’s new telling of ‘The Odyssey’ hits movie screens across Britain, I’ve been pondering what its hero might be able to teach us about investing, at a time when markets, in my view, are overheating.
My quarterly updates are pretty sparse when it comes to text and my monthly commentaries are non-existent to minimal. However, I felt the urge to write a longer note, mostly because I am growing nervous about problems brewing in wider financial markets.
In this Fund in 5ive, Artemis’ co-manager Jack Holmes and investment director Josh Passmore discuss how the fund achieves true diversification by looking beyond the usual suspects to have beaten its peer group over all time frames.
Since Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini budget sent a wrecking ball through the gilt market in September 2022, the ‘moron premium’ has entered common parlance, at least within financial circles. The phrase, which refers to sovereign debt yields rising because of politicians’ mistakes, was brought out of retirement and dusted off when 30-year gilt yields spiked in August and September 2025, peaking around 5.7%1.
It’s an old adage that there’s no such thing as a free lunch – somewhere down the line there’s a payment to be made. Except perhaps in the world of fixed income.
Many great thinkers through the ages have prized the concept of simplicity. Leonardo da Vinci believed it to be “the ultimate sophistication”; Albert Einstein quipped that “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”; while author William Golding concluded that “the greatest ideas are the simplest”. Then why, I wonder, do so many investment professionals try to make things so complicated?
A pressing debate for investors and asset allocators is whether corporate bond spreads are too tight. If yields are almost as high for a theoretically much safer government bond, shouldn’t they just buy gilts instead? Or even park their money in cash, given the high rates some savings accounts are paying out at present.
In this video, the team discuss how they have consistently beaten the benchmark, their investment process, what excites them about the future of UK equities and who the joker of the team is!
The Artemis SmartGARP European Equities Fund is up 33% over one year*. We ask manager Philip Wolstencroft if investors have missed the boat.
After a strong run of performance, we ask Philip Wolstencroft, Manager of the Artemis SmartGARP European Equity Fund, if it’s time to take profits in European banks amid interest rate cuts.
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