The fund managers' view

robert burdett, co-head of credit suisse multi-manager services Schroders has been a tale of two halves. The retail side has enjoyed some strong years via an early adoption of the 'concentrated' approach through the Alpha range, with a combination of talented and/or experienced managers such as Nathan Gibbs and Richard Buxton in Japan and the UK respectively, and the new breed of Adriaan de Mol van Otterloo and Zafar Ahmadullah on Europe. Each Alpha fund had unique characteristics in its brief to suit each manager, and many of the managers gave up other - usually institutional - funds to...