Moore's mid and small-cap focus fires unconstrained income fund to top of table

Top-line growth focus propels industry newcomer's UK Equity Income Unconstrained fund into the upper echelons of competitive sector.

In January 2009 Standard Life Investments made the audacious move to appoint the unknown Thomas Moore as manager of the group’s UK Equity Income Unconstrained fund. The fund had struggled since inception in February 2007 with Dominic Byrne at the helm and by the time Moore was appointed it had slumped into the bottom quartile of the IMA Equity Income sector. Two and a half years down the line, Moore has raised a few eyebrows after spearheading his first retail fund to the upper echelons of its peer group, while more than trebling its asset base from £13m to £55m. Under Moore’s st...