Cross, Mundy and Plackett reveal special sits picks

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Charlotte Richards talks to three managers about the stocks driving their outperformance.

It is a label that covers a wide range of mandates, but ‘special situations’ funds comprise a large portion of the IMA UK All Companies sector’s best performing funds. Investment Week finds out where the opportunities and value can be found in times of economic uncertainty. Anthony Cross Co-manager of the £758m Liontrust Special Situations fund     It is clear we remain in a challenging economic environment which is restricted by the deleveraging process and characterised by, at best, low growth in the UK and Europe. During the second half of 2012, however, we began to see a ...

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