Stick to make Special Sits his own

Rathbones' fund manager Carl Stick has one of the hardest jobs in the industry, following Patrick Evershed as manager of the top-performing £27m Special Situations fund. Stick, who came to fund management after working as head chef for the Crown Prince of Jordan, inherits a fund that ranked first out of 285 funds in the UK All Companies sector according to Standard & Poor's figures, in the 12 months to 31 December, with offer to bid returns of 16.68% against a sector average of -7.77%. Not only will investors expect Stick to continue that outperformance but he must also continue the to...