There are 177 FE Alpha Managers this year, including 60 new entries.
The elite manager rating highlights the top-10 per cent of fund managers in the UK, based on their relative performance, risk-adjusted Alpha and consistency in all market conditions.
All UK and offshore-domiciled funds and investment trusts are taken into consideration when judging a manager, with a bias towards those portfolios with more assets under management (AUM).
However, the manager must head up at least one fund in the IMA unit trust and OEIC universe to qualify for the rating.
FE Trustnet will dedicate an entire day to the rebalancing on Wednesday this week, including in-depth analytical studies into why managers have been up- and downgraded, as well as exclusive interviews with some of the standout individuals on the list.
However, we thought we’d whet you appetite with the full list today – we know a lot of you have been waiting a long time to see it…
We have put a star next to the newcomers and a double star next to those that have been FE Alpha Managers in every year since the rating's inception back in 2009.
Click here to see the list with links to individual manager profiles
The list
| Manager name | Fund group |
|---|---|
| Adrian Frost | Artemis Fund Managers |
| Adrian Gosden | Artemis Fund Managers |
| Ajay Gambhir* | RWC |
| Alex Grispos | CF Ruffer Investment Mgmt Ltd |
| Alex Savvides* | JO Hambro Capital Management |
| Alex Wright | Fidelity (FIL Investment Intl) |
| Alexander Darwall | Jupiter Asset Management |
| Alexander Smitten | Cazenove Invest Fund Mgmt Ltd |
| Algernon Percy* | JO Hambro Investment Mgmt |
| Algy Smith-Maxwell** | Jupiter Unit Trust Mgrs Ltd |
| Alistair Thompson* | First State Investments UK Ltd |
| Alister Hibbert | BlackRock |
| Amit Lodha | Fidelity (FIL Investment Intl) |
| Andrew C. Green** | GAM Sterling Management Ltd |
| Andrew Holliman* | Polar Capital |
| Andy Brough** | Schroder UT Managers |
| Andy Headley* | Veritas Asset Mgmt (UK) Ltd |
| Angus Tulloch** | First State Investments UK Ltd |
| Anthony Cross | Liontrust Fund Partners LLP |
| Anthony Eaton | CF JM Finn Investment |
| Ariel Bezalel | Jupiter Unit Trust Mgrs Ltd |
| Barnaby Wiener* | MFS Meridian Funds |
| Barry Norris** | Argonaut Capital |
| Ben Rogoff* | Polar Capital |
| Ben Russon** | Newton & BNY Mellon Asset Mgmt |
| Ben S.Kottler* | MFS Meridian Funds |
| Bill McQuaker* | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| Bill Mott** | PSigma Unit Trust Managers Ltd |
| Bradley George | Investec Asset Mgt Limited |
| Brian Pessin | Lazard Fund Managers |
| Bryan Agbabian* | Allianz Global Investors Lux |
| Bryan Burrough* | BlackRock Invest Mgrs UK Ltd |
| Charles Richardson* | Veritas Asset Mgmt (UK) Ltd |
| Chris Bullock* | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| Chris Hutchinson* | Unicorn Asset Management |
| Christopher Metcalfe | Newton & BNY Mellon Asset Mgmt |
| Crispin Odey** | Odey Asset Management |
| Curt Schibli* | Brookfield Invmt Mgmt Ltd (UK) |
| Daniel Nickols** | Old Mutual Dublin Funds plc |
| David Ballance | CF Ruffer Investment Mgmt Ltd |
| David Coombs | Rathbone Unit Trust Mgmt Ltd |
| David Dudding** | Threadneedle Inv Services Ltd |
| David Gait | First State Investments UK Ltd |
| David Hooker | Insight Invest Mgt (Gbl) Ltd |
| Dr. Guy Morrell | HSBC Gbl Asset Mgt (HSBC Inv) |
| Dr. Paul Jourdan* | Amati Global Investors |
| E Carmignac* | Carmignac Gestion |
| Evy Hambro | BlackRock |
| Ezra Sun* | Veritas Asset Mgmt (UK) Ltd |
| Feras Al-Chalabi* | Odey Asset Management |
| Francis Brooke | Troy Asset Management Ltd |
| Geoff Hitchin | Marlborough Fund Managers |
| Giles Hargreave** | Hargreave Hale Limited |
| Glen Finegan | First State Investments UK Ltd |
| Gordon Grender** | GAM Sterling Management Ltd |
| Graham French** | M&G UK |
| Guy de Blonay | Jupiter Asset Management |
| Harry Nimmo** | Standard Life Investments |
| Hugh Young | Aberdeen Asset Management |
| Iain Stewart** | Newton & BNY Mellon Asset Mgmt |
| Ian Fishwick | Fidelity (FIL Investment Intl) |
| Ian McVeigh | Jupiter Unit Trust Mgrs Ltd |
| Ian Spreadbury** | Fidelity (FIL Investment Intl) |
| James Henderson | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| James Salter* | Polar Capital |
| James Thomson | Rathbone Unit Trust Mgmt Ltd |
| Jamie Hamilton | M&G UK |
| Jan Luthman** | Liontrust Fund Partners LLP |
| Jenny Jones** | Schroder UT Managers |
| Jeremy Hall | Ignis Asset Management |
| Jeremy Podger* | Fidelity (FIL Investment Intl) |
| John Bennett | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| John Chatfeild-Roberts** | Jupiter Unit Trust Mgrs Ltd |
| John Dodd* | Artemis Fund Managers |
| John Lo | Fidelity (FIL Investment Intl) |
| John MacDougall* | Baillie Gifford |
| John McClure | Unicorn Asset Management |
| John Wood** | JO Hambro Capital Management |
| Jonathan Simon* | JP Morgan Asset Management |
| Julian Fosh | Liontrust Fund Partners LLP |
| Julian Lewis** | Cavendish Asset Management |
| Julian York | HSBC Gbl Asset Mgt (HSBC Inv) |
| Julie Dean* | Cazenove Invest Fund Mgmt Ltd |
| Kevin Adams** | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| Leigh Harrison | Threadneedle Inv Services Ltd |
| Leigh Himsworth** | City Financial Investment |
| Leon Howard-Spink** | Schroder UT Managers |
| Luis Freitas de Oliveira* | Capital International |
| Luke Kerr* | Old Mutual Dublin Funds plc |
| Margaret Lawson* | SVM Asset Management |
| Mark Asquith | Somerset Capital Management |
| Mark Barnett | Invesco Asset Management |
| Mark Costar* | JO Hambro Capital Management |
| Mark Hall** | Franklin Templeton Funds (UK) |
| Mark Heslop* | Threadneedle Inv Services Ltd |
| Mark Martin | Neptune Investment Management |
| Mark Niznik | Artemis Fund Managers |
| Mark Slater** | MFM |
| Martin Gray** | Miton |
| Martin Lau** | First State Investments UK Ltd |
| Martin Walker* | Invesco Perpetual Fund Mgrs |
| Mary McBain | CF Ruffer Investment Mgmt Ltd |
| Matthew W Ryan* | MFS Meridian Funds |
| Matthias Born* | Allianz Global Investors UK |
| Max Godwin | M&G UK |
| Melanie Mitchell* | Kames Capital |
| Michael Ulrich | F&C Fund Management |
| Mick Brewis** | Baillie Gifford |
| Mike Amey | Allianz Global Investors UK |
| Mike Faulkner* | Sanlam Universal Funds plc |
| Mike Fox | CIS UT Managers |
| Millar Mathieson | First State Investments UK Ltd |
| Nathan Gibbs** | Schroder UT Managers |
| Neil Woodford** | Invesco Perpetual Fund Mgrs |
| Nick Purves* | RWC |
| Nick Train | Lindsell Train |
| Nicola Stafford* | Fidelity (FIL(Luxembourg)SA) |
| Nigel Thomas | AXA Framlington |
| Oleg Biryulyov* | JP Morgan Asset Management |
| Paul Chesson | Invesco Perpetual Fund Mgrs |
| Paul Marriage | Cazenove Invest Fund Mgmt Ltd |
| Paul Spencer | Franklin Templeton Funds (UK) |
| Peter F. Fruzzetti* | MFS Meridian Funds |
| Peter Lawery** | Jupiter Unit Trust Mgrs Ltd |
| Phil Cliff* | M&G UK |
| Philip Dicken** | Threadneedle Inv Services Ltd |
| Philip Gibbs** | Jupiter Asset Management |
| Philip Payne | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| Philip Rodrigs | Investec Fund Managers (UK) |
| Reza Vishkai | Insight Invest Mgt (Gbl) Ltd |
| Richard Bell | Baillie Gifford |
| Richard Hodges | Legal & General UT Mgr Ltd |
| Richard Pease** | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| Richard Plackett** | BlackRock |
| Richard Smith** | Invesco Perpetual Fund Mgrs |
| Richard Woolnough** | M&G UK |
| Rob Burnett** | Neptune Investment Management |
| Robert Hay | Newton & BNY Mellon Asset Mgmt |
| Robert Siddles | F&C Fund Management |
| Robert Smith | Baring Asset Management |
| Robin Geffen** | Neptune Investment Management |
| Robin Hepworth** | Ecclesiastical Investment Mgmt |
| Robin Parbrook* | Schroder Investmt Mgt(LUX)S.A. |
| Robrecht Wouters* | JO Hambro Capital Management |
| Roger Morley* | MFS Meridian Funds |
| Rosemary Banyard* | Schroder Investments Ltd |
| Rupert Fleming* | S&W Fund Administration Ltd |
| Sean Ashfield* | Consistent Unit Tst Mgt Co Ltd |
| Shaw Wagener* | Capital International |
| Simon Haines* | Threadneedle Inv Services Ltd |
| Simon Pickard* | Carmignac Gestion |
| Simon Rowe* | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| Sonja Uys* | Insight Invest Mgt (Gbl) Ltd |
| Spencer Adair* | Baillie Gifford |
| Stephen Bailey** | Liontrust Fund Partners LLP |
| Stephen Harker* | GLG Partners UK Limited |
| Stephen Thariyan | Henderson Global Investors Ltd |
| Stephen Yiu* | Artemis Fund Managers |
| Steve Cordell | Cazenove Invest Fund Mgmt Ltd |
| Steve Roth* | GLG Partners UK Limited |
| Steve Russell | CF Ruffer Investment Mgmt Ltd |
| Stewart Cowley | Old Mutual Dublin Funds plc |
| Stuart Mitchell | SW Mitchell Capital |
| Stuart Rhodes | M&G UK |
| Teera Chanpongsang | Fidelity (FIL Investment Intl) |
| Thorsten Winkelmann* | Allianz Global Investors Lux |
| Tim Wilson | Newton & BNY Mellon Asset Mgmt |
| Tim Wood | McInroy & Wood Portfolios Ltd |
| Toby Ricketts** | Margetts Fund Management |
| Tom Dobell** | M&G UK |
| Tom McGrath | Apollo Multi Asset Management |
| Victor Lee* | JP Morgan Asset Management |
| Victor Wood** | McInroy & Wood Portfolios Ltd |
| Will James | Standard Life Investments |
| Will Landers* | BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A. |
| William Yuen* | Invesco Asset Management |
Make sure you tune in on Wednesday – every FE Trustnet story will be dedicated to the FE Alpha Manager re-balancing, including in-depth analytical studies and exclusive interviews with some of the stand-out individuals on the list.
We'll also take a look at some of the managers who have lost their FE Alpha Manager status.