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Alex Wright, portfolio manager of Fidelity Special Situations & Special Values shares his perspectives on the recent tariffs-related market volatility. Against a backdrop of global uncertainty, he highlights why the UK market with its low valuations, strong earnings growth and high dividends remains an attractive environment for contrarian stock pickers, and well positioned to weather the tariff storm.
The unpopularity of the UK market in recent years has made it an attractive hunting ground for contrarian value investors. While investors continue to be seduced by the charms of the US technology sector, we believe the UK market has an underappreciated richness of opportunity, combining strong earnings growth, high dividend yields and low valuations.
Sam Morse and Marcel Stötzel, portfolio managers of Fidelity European Fund and Fidelity European Trust PLC, examine the challenges and opportunities facing investors in European equities. Despite an uncertain macro backdrop, they explain why a focus on high quality companies with strong balance sheets and sustainable dividend growth can continue to drive attractive long-term returns for investors in the region.
Fidelity China Special Situations PLC portfolio manager Dale Nicholls shares his outlook for 2025 and provides an insight into how he is looking to position the portfolio against an evolving macro backdrop.
Alex Wright, portfolio manager of Fidelity Special Situations & Special Values, shares his outlook for 2025 and provides an insight into how he is looking to position the portfolios against an evolving macro backdrop.
With visitors heading to Paris for this summer’s Olympics, which French companies stand to benefit? Marcel Stötzel, portfolio manager of the Fidelity European Fund and Fidelity European Trust PLC, examines the changing dynamics of the luxury goods market. He highlights why he continues to favour companies with strong pricing power, which will be well-placed to grow in an uncertain market environment.
Across the globe, despite a brief comeback, many value stocks and sectors are languishing at historical lows relative to their growth counterparts. Against this backdrop, our value-oriented portfolio managers review the landscape facing investors in the world’s key economies, highlighting the opportunities we’re seeing in mispriced stocks and the potential catalysts for a value revival more broadly.
Chinese equities have recently been marked by elevated volatility, but there are signs of economic stabilisation and green shoots of improving investor sentiment. Having recently completed 10 years at the helm of Fidelity China Special Situations PLC, Dale Nicholls reflects on the key changes he’s seen on the ground through a tumultuous period and outlines why now could be an opportune time to revisit the case for Asia’s largest economy and stock market.
While discounts in the investment trusts universe make headlines (the average sector discount has widened slightly over the first quarter to nearly 16%), as managers we get on with the day job of seeking out investments that have the prospects to grow and provide positive returns for the 16,000+ shareholders holding a stake in the CT Global Managed Portfolio Trust.
Political noise is a distraction in any market environment but in an election year the clamour is heightened. So, in February we had one of our holdings, Nat West Bank, reporting its biggest annual profit since the 2007 financial crisis but in the days that followed seeing its share price fall on speculation of a possible windfall tax on the banking sector. As an investor, sometimes it feels like you can’t win.
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