Five active US equity funds offering the most alpha since Trump's election

The best performers revealed

Lauren Mason
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Baillie Gifford American, Loomis Sayles U.S. Equity Leaders, Morgan Stanley US Advantage and T. Rowe Price US Blue Chip Equity are the S&P 500 benchmarked strategies within the IA North America sector to have achieved top-quartile alpha generation and bottom-quartile tracking errors relative to their average peer since US President Donald Trump was elected on 8 November 2016 to time of writing (26 October), according to research from Investment Week using data from FE fundinfo.

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