Polar launches large-cap healthcare fund to tap 'major structural change'

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Polar Capital has launched a Healthcare Blue Chip fund as it expands the range run by Daniel Mahony and Gareth Powell's specialist team.

The fund, lead managed by Mahony and Powell (pictured), will invest in a portfolio of 25-30 blue chip stocks and seek to outperform the MSCI World Daily Total Return Net Health Care index. Sector exposure will encompass pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical device and healthcare services firms. The launch, which has been seeded by PSigma IM, follows Polar's November 2013 rollout of a Biotechnology fund for its healthcare team, which also runs the £488m Healthcare Opportunities fund and the Global Healthcare Growth and Income trust. Those funds have capitalised on the runaway retu...

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