Woodford more defensive than Nutt

While Neil Woodford and Anthony Nutt have consistently outperformed their peers, the former is more defensive, favouring non-cyclical consumer goods to Nutt"s financials

The UK Equity Income sector is rife with top managers and some of the biggest retail funds in the UK compete in this area. Despite some periods where his style was out of favour, Neil Woodford is undoubtably one of the strongest players in this market. This week"s head to head compares him with Anthony Nutt of Jupiter, also considered one of the top UK equity income managers. In addition to their comparable reputations and the amount of retail money each manage, they both run income and higher income funds plus the equity portion of distribution portfolios, although Woodford"s was only l...