David TaylorFund Manager

David Taylor joined Chelverton in 2006 . He began his career as an analyst in the research department at Wedd Durlacher and moved into fund management in 1987 with the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund.

He joined Gartmore Investment Limited in 1991, during this time, he ran a combination of institutional funds and investment trusts, namely the Clydesdale Investment Trust and London & Strathclyde Trust. In 1995, he moved to LGT to manage small cap retail funds and latterly spent nearly seven years as head of UK smaller companies at HSBC Asset Management.

  • BA (Hons) Business Studies, University of Kingston
  • 19 years
    38 years
Oliver KnottFund Manager

Oliver Knott joined Chelverton Asset Management in January 2020 as an Assistant Fund Manager. He has extensive experience in UK small and mid cap equities having joined Brewin Dolphin as a generalist salesman after graduating from the University of Essex with a 1st class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.Prior to joining Chelverton, he worked as an equity analyst for N+1 Singer, in their highly respected technology research franchise. Oliver is a CFA Charterholder.

  • BA (Hons) PPE, University of Essex
  • CFA
  • 5 years
    15 years
Phoebe BakerAnalyst

Phoebe joined Chelverton in March 2023 as a Responsible Business Trainee. She has a 1st class honours degree in Biomedical Sciences from The University of Edinburgh. Prior to working for Chelverton, Phoebe worked for socially and environmentally driven start-ups and scale-ups in an account management capacity, helping her first employer to achieve B Corp certification.

  • 2 years
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Key facts

£313.5m
Fund size
5.71%
Historic yield
85
Holdings
BenchmarkN/A
IA SectorIA UK Equity Income
Morningstar categoryEAA Fund UK Equity Income
Launch date04 December 2006
Fund typeUK Domiciled OEIC
Base currencyGBP
Dividend frequencyQuarterly
Country of registrationUK

Fund objective

The objective of the Fund is to provide a progressive income stream and achieve long-term capital growth by investing primarily in a portfolio of fully listed and AIM traded UK equities. The Fund will invest in UK companies which aim to provide a high initial dividend, progressive dividend payments and long term capital appreciation.

The historic yield reflects distributions over the past 12 months as a percentage of the bid price of the B share class as at the date shown. It does not include any initial charge and investors may be subject to tax on their distributions.

Source: Apex Fundrock Ltd as at 31/12/2023.