Select the options below that best describe your investor status

Select your location  -  

Your location is pre-selected based on your location settings

You will be able to select an investor type once a location has been selected.

If none of the above applies to you, please go to our corporate site.

Clicking 'Accept and Enter' means you agree to our investing disclaimers.

Our disclaimer policy

Specific disclaimer policies will be shown here once your location and investor type has been selected.

UK Equity Income

Our advocacy for the power of compounding underpins our focus on generating a consistent dividend yield premium over the FTSE All Share index.

About UK Equity Income

The Martin Currie UK Equity Team offer a diverse suite of products across the capitalization spectrum driven by the power of investing in undervalued companies with superior quality metrics, management and sustainable cash flow profiles.

We are long term, active UK equity stock pickers. As traditional UK equity investors we adopt a commonsense approach in what we do – long only, profitable, UK listed, direct equity investment. Our rigorous fundamental research process enables us to identify the very best opportunities within the universe whilst keeping the spotlight on balance sheet quality, business model sustainability and valuation. We apply a naturally sceptical approach to our asset valuation process, maintaining awareness of the bear case scenario and the impact to investor returns. With no intentional style bias our portfolios offer high quality exposure across the capitalization spectrum managed in a collaborative environment from the heart of Leeds, UK.

ESG analysis is conducted and embedded into our research process. Our focus on materiality, engagement, and ultimately valuation enables us to integrate our proprietary ESG scoring system into the stock-selection process through appropriately adjusting company cash flow forecasts.

Our UK Equity Income portfolios are aligned to the same overarching common-sense philosophy applied by the team. We believe that high quality UK companies generating sustainable cash flows and trading on reasonable multiples offer significant potential to outperform the broader market over the long term.

We don’t believe in simply chasing the highest yielding investments. We want attractively valued companies with good quality brands, pricing power and the ability to generate income and compound that income over the long term. Our advocacy for the power of compounding underpins our focus on generating a consistent dividend yield premium over the FTSE All Share index.

The Martin Currie UK Equity team have been managing UK Equity portfolios since 1995, making them the longest tenured team across all IA sectors. Based in Leeds away from the “noise” of London the team operate in a collaborative manner where desk-based discussion and challenge is encouraged.

The results are rigorously scrutinised investment theses presented in high conviction portfolios of reasonably valued, quality UK companies.

Portfolio characteristics UK Equity Income
Long-Term objective To generate an income that is higher than that of the FTSE All-Share Index, together with investment growth over a three to five-year period net of fees and costs
Benchmark FTSE All-Share Index
Allocation UK listed shares
Market capitalisation All-cap with a large cap bias
Style Focus on quality fundamentals
Number of stocks 30-50
Portfolio turnover 20-40%
Target yield Consistent yield premium over the FTSE All-Share Index
Dividend frequency Quarterly
Inception January 1995

Investment team

Richard Bullas

Job title
Co-Head, UK Equities (Small & Mid-Cap)
Experience
23 years
Ben Russon

Ben Russon

Job title
Co-Head, UK Equities (Large Cap)
Experience
23 years
Dan Green

Dan Green

Job title
Portfolio Manager & Research Analyst
Experience
13 years

Marcus Tregoning

Job title
Portfolio Manager & Research Analyst
Experience
17 years

Will Bradwell

Job title
Portfolio Manager & Research Analyst
Experience
11 years
Jo Rands

Jo Rands

Job title
Portfolio Manager & Research Analyst
Experience
19 years
Courtney Westcar

Courtney Westcarr

Job title
Research Analyst
Experience
7 years

We don’t believe in simply chasing the highest yielding investments. We want attractively valued companies with good quality brands, pricing power and the ability to generate income and compound that income over the long term.

Related insights