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Jupiter UK Special Situations

Ranked 64 out of 261 in - UK (All Companies) over 12 months
All calculations are in GBP

Managed by

Ben Whitmore

Ben Whitmore studied geography at St John’s College, Cambridge University. He has been a fund manager since 1998 and joined Jupiter in 2006. Prior to joining Jupiter, Ben worked at Schroder Asset Management where he managed both retail and institutional portfolios. Ben is a bottom-up stock picker who manges money with a clear, contrarian, value bias. He is a member of the Institute of Investment Management and Research (IIMR).

Objective

The objective is to obtain capital growth by exploiting special situations principally within the UK. The Fund's investment policy is to attain the objective by investing primarily in UK equities, in investments considered by the manager to be undervalued.

Performance

UK (All Companies) over : 31/12/2013 - 31/12/2014
  • Rank 64/261 Total Return
  • Rank 27/261 Standard Deviation
  • Rank 58/261 Max Drawdown
Fund Name Return
62 JOHCM UK Dynamic B Acc

3.0%
63 Threadneedle UK Retail Net Inc GBX

2.9%
64 Jupiter UK Special Situations

2.9%
65 Kames UK Equity Acc B

2.8%
66 Insight Equity Inc Booster Sterling Income Shares

2.8%
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Fund Name Risk
25 UBS UK Opportunities A Acc

2.3
26 Standard Life Inv UK Equity High Alpha Inst Acc

2.3
27 Jupiter UK Special Situations

2.3
28 Neptune UK Opportunities A Acc GBP

2.3
29 JOHCM UK Opportunities B Acc

2.4
29 BlackRock Growth & Recovery A Inc

2.4
29 NatWest UK Specialist S2 Inc

2.4
29 CBF Church of England Investment Inc

2.4
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Fund Name Loss
56 EIP United Kingdom Specialist Eq Prgme Srs 2 GBP

-3.9%
57 SWIP Multi Manager UK Equity Growth A Acc

-3.9%
58 Insight Equity Inc Booster Sterling Income Shares

-3.9%
58 Halifax UK Growth C

-3.9%
58 GVO UK Focus I

-3.9%
58 Threadneedle UK Retail Net Inc GBX

-3.9%
58 Jupiter UK Special Situations

-3.9%
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Total Return

Quarterly Performance

to 31/12/2014 Annual Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2014 2.9% -0.6% 2.4% -1.1% 2.3%
2013 28.2% 12.1% 1.7% 4.2% 8.0%
2012 17.1% 6.7% 0.0% 6.1% 3.4%
2011 1.6% 1.5% 1.8% -7.8% 6.7%
2010 13.4% 6.3% -9.0% 12.4% 4.3%
2009 25.2% -9.6% 10.8% 22.7% 1.9%
2008 -20.0% -8.7% -0.8% -6.7% -5.3%
2007 5.1% 3.2% 4.3% -2.0% -0.3%
2006 22.0% 14.0% -5.4% 4.4% 8.3%
2005 13.1% 6.6% -4.0% 8.1% 2.2%
2004 11.0% 7.6% -2.0% -1.4% 6.8%
2003 28.4% -7.9% 21.0% 10.4% 4.3%
2002 -31.8% -3.6% -9.7% -22.7% 1.4%
2001 -26.9% -15.9% 4.2% -29.9% 19.0%
2000 2.9% 13.8% -5.0% 0.2% -5.0%
1999 51.0% 14.0% 4.3% 0.2% 26.7%
1998 2.1% 18.7% 1.1% -21.9% 8.9%
1997 18.6% 5.2% -0.5% 7.8% 5.0%
1996 7.6% 11.7%

Month by Month Performance

Returns Vs Risk

Asset Allocation

Breakdown

31/10/2014

Top 10 Holdings

Stock Size
BP PLC ORD 5.91
AstraZeneca PLC ORD 4.48
GlaxoSmithKline PLC ORD 4.14
Reed Elsevier PLC ORD 3.96
BAE Systems PLC ORD 3.79
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC ORD 3.43
Aviva PLC ORD 3.42
The Sage Group PLC ORD 3.41
Wolters Kluwer NV ORD 2.90
Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC ORD 2.85
31/10/2014

Registered For Sale In

  1. United Kingdom

Fund Info

  • Launch date03/06/1996
  • Share Class size1,266Mn
  • Base currencyGBP
  • ISIN GB0004777347

Purchase Info

  • Min. initial investment50,000
  • Min. additional investment5,000

Charges

  • Annual management1.5%

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Harrison added to T. Bailey Best Ideas fund

In a bid to chase UK Equity Income prospects, T. Bailey has added Leigh Harrison's Threadneedle UK Equity Alpha Income fund and Ben Whitmore's Jupiter UK Special Situations fund to its UK Best Ideas fund.

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Our panel weighs up two contrarian funds that look to the long term for growth. Each invests mainly in UK stocks, made attractive by weak equity markets, and has a large-cap bias

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Former Jupiter Special Situations manager Kenneth Warnock is to join Alliance Trust as an investment analyst.

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Performance is for the period shown (month end to month end, bid/bid, gross income reinvested, calculated in GBP).