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Global equities: How should investors approach market uncertainty?

We’re in an average recessionary market, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities, argues Pendal’s CHRIS LEES in this fast podcast

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An excerpt from this podcast

Chris Lees, senior portfolio manager, Pendal Global Select Fund:


“If you don’t think there’s a banking crisis coming, then it’s actually time to gently start buying again, and that’s what we’re doing.  

“We think that we’re in a normal recessionary bear market. We’re not going into, we think, a global banking crisis market.  

“Therefore equity markets around the world are probably in a double bottoming process.  

“So there are opportunities now for us to start adding into our funds for our clients. 

“In the post-Covid, post-recessionary world, as we look forward, healthcare looks really very, very attractive.

“We’ve got some fantastic growth stocks in the biotechnology tools, the biotechnology equipment, the biotechnology outsourcing world.  

“Those are fabulous businesses whose earnings have got nothing to do with oil, nothing to do with interest rates, nothing to do with all the current problems in the world.  

“Some of those stocks, a year or two ago, were very, very expensive. Many of them, the share prices halved now in this recessionary bear market, and yet their earnings are rock solid.

“Those are a fabulous opportunity for us to put into the fund for our clients.” 


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About Chris Lees and Nudgem Richyal

Chris Lees co-manages Pendal Global Select Fund with Nudgem Richyal. The pair have been working together in global equities investing for more than 20 years.

Chris has more than 32 years of investment industry experience. He joined Pendal Group’s UK-based asset manager J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) in 2008 after spending 19 years at Baring Asset Management, ultimately as head of its global sector team.


About Pendal Global Select Fund

Pendal Global Select Fund is a global equities portfolio with a distinctive, yet proven approach. Fund managers Chris Lees and Nudgem Richyal have worked closely together for more than 20 years.

They manage a portfolio of 30-60 stocks using quantitative analysis and fundamental research based on decades of experience.

The team draws on the experience of 40-plus investment professionals at JOHCM and Regnan.


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