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Sebastian Lyon
Troy Asset Management Ltd, Personal Assets
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	FE Trustnet verdict Overall, performing better than the peer group composite. However, over a long track record, the manager has underperformed the peer group more often than not. Good stockpicking has had a material positive impact on results, which have tended to be relatively better in a falling market.

Manager profile

Before establishing Troy Asset Management in 2000, Sebastian was a Director at Stanhope Investment Management (the management company for the GEC Pension Fund) where he jointly managed a £2 billion equity portfolio and was also responsible for asset allocation. He was previously employed by Singer & Friedlander Investment Management. Sebastian graduated from Southampton University in 1989. Sebastian is also a Treasurer of Childhood First.

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Annualised total return over 12.1 years

+8.8%

Cumulative performance (% growth)

	1 year	3 years	5 years	7 years	10 years
Sebastian Lyon	6.1	28.6	56.2	78.1	145.8
Peer Group Composite	24.7	32.8	32.1	49.5	132.3
Over / Under	-18.6	-4.2	24.1	28.6	13.5

Total return for Sebastian Lyon

Rolling Alpha Quartile:

Discrete three year periods

Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.


Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4

0-36m

12-48m

24-60m

36-72m

48-84m

Discrete calendar year performance : Sebastian Lyon

Discrete performance

	0-12m	12-24m	24-36m	36-48m	48-60m	60-72m	72-84m	84-96m	96-108m	108-120m

Sebastian Lyon	6.1	5.9	14.5	20.2	1.2	-2.4	16.8	11.2	16.8	6.3
Peer Group Composite	24.7	-8.5	16.3	20.8	-18.3	-3.1	16.8	20.0	13.6	13.4
Over / Under	-18.6	14.4	-1.8	-0.6	19.5	0.7	0.0	-8.8	3.2	-7.1

Performance vs peer group composite: Sebastian Lyon

How a manager matches up against his peers gives you some idea of how talented he is. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.

Overall markets

Outperformed peer group composite

4 years

out of a possible 10

Overall markets

Underperformed peer group composite

6 years

out of a possible 10

Rising markets

Outperformed peer group composite

1 year

out of a possible 7

Falling markets

Outperformed peer group composite

3 years

out of a possible 3

Funds currently managed

Fund	Sole/Co-managed	Sector	Periods

Trojan	Lead manager	UT Flexible Investment	since May 30 2001 to present
Personal Assets Trust plc	Lead manager	IT Global Growth	since Mar 03 2009 to present

Funds managed previously

Fund	Periods

Trojan Capital	since May 01 2008 to Oct 31 2011

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