What's Hot? Biotech Growth trust manager Geoff Hsu on talking to physicists

WHAT'S HOT?

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Geoff Hsu, manager of the Biotech Growth trust, tells Cherry Reynard why he is confident the well-performing sector has even further to run.

Healthcare has been one of the notable winners of the past 12 months, but nowhere more so than biotechnology. Long unloved in the nervous post-credit crisis environment, it has shot ahead since the start of this year, delivering, in many cases, triple digit returns. While all biotechnology funds have risen with this tide, the Biotech Growth trust, run by US healthcare specialists OrbiMed, has been the stand-out performer. Manager Geoff Hsu took over the trust in 2005 when OrbiMed changed the investment remit. Previously known as the Finsbury Life Sciences trust, the fund had been focu...

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