Jason Pidcock and Caroline Keen of the Newton Asia-Pacific equities team say the trend for dividend-paying Asian companies is continuing to evolve.
Jupiter's Guy de Blonay is among 22 managers who have made Trustnet's Alpha Manager list for the first time, while high profile names including Sanjeev Shah and Mark Lyttleton have been cut.
Offerings from BlackRock, Schroders, Henderson and Newton top disparate peer group
It has been a turbulent year for UK equity income fund managers, with BP suspending its payments, large-cap miners reinstating dividends and investors looking to the mid-cap space for income opportunities.
Newton's Paul Brain is to run a new offshore global bond fund for BNY Mellon Asset Management based on his flagship onshore fixed income product.