Fund Manager Focus: Special dividends on the rise in Asia

How Prusik Asian Income topped the charts

Prusik IM's Tom Naughton explains how his fund has gone from hidden gem to multi-manager favourite.

Asian equities boutique Prusik Investment Management has had a stellar year, with its newest fund topping the performance charts despite a tricky environment for investors in the Asia Pacific region. Tom Naughton’s Prusik Asian Equity Income fund won the Asia category at Investment Week’s Fund Manager of the Year Awards earlier this month, and the fund has gone from a hidden gem to a favourite among multi-managers looking for a high conviction, high alpha fund offering small-cap exposure.  In fact, the fund has proved so popular with investors that the group introduced a front end cha...