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Each month RealAdviser asks a panel of fund selectors to give their verdict on a company's fund range. This month SGAM gets the once-over

Jason Brittain, manager of the T Bailey Equity Income fund SocGen has been quietly improving and getting more impressive on its UK and US side. We rate both the Special Opportunities fund managed by Hugh Sergeant and the SocGen UK Growth managed by Hari Sandhu quite highly. The problem is that the UK Growth fund is in a particularly competitive part of the market. It is first quartile, but there are funds above it and it has never done well enough to make it into the UK portfolio. On the Special Opportunities fund, we like the style. A lot of it is stockpicking and with markets unexcitin...

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