Thematic: Commonality between equity income funds

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Click here to view the UK Equity Income Sector Top 20 Investment Week examined the top 10 holdings across the top 20 best performers in the IMA's Equity Income sector to see the level of commonality between these portfolios. While there are some obvious similarities between themes the managers are playing, each is doing it in their own way with little uniformity seen at all in the top weightings. While the majority of funds have their largest weightings in financials, these position vary considerably and while stocks like BP and HSBC feature prominantly in most portfolios, their positions again appear individual.

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