Woodford dominates UK Equity Income sector

Invesco Perpetual manager boasts first and second best portfolios in popular sector over three years

Invesco Perpetual continues to dominate the UK Equity Income space, with Neil Woodford's High Income and Income offerings topping the one- and three-year performance tables. The peer group's best-performing fund over three years to 31 December 2006 was his High Income offering, which rose 101.15% on a bid to bid basis, according to Standard & Poor's. Woodford's Income fund came second over the cumulative period, generating 99.75%, with George Luckraft's Axa Framlington Equity Income third, with 96.59% growth. By contrast, the average fund in the 74-strong sector rose 69.88% over the same...