Barnard delivers for Marlborough

Michael Barnard, manager of Marlborough UK Equity Growth, has quietly steered the fund to top decile performance over every measurable time period, but without the fanfare enjoyed by many fund managers. Management of the fund was contracted out to Barnard, proprietor of stockbrokers MD Barnard & Company, by Marlborough Fund Managers back in 1995. In the seven years since he took the helm, the fund has returned 210.34% versus a UK All Companies sector average of 37.10%, on a bid-to-bid basis. This was achieved with a beta of 0.81 versus a sector average of 0.99, ranking the fund top for r...