{"id":634,"date":"2014-07-11T06:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=634"},"modified":"2014-07-11T06:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T06:59:32","slug":"the-woodford-equity-income-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"The Woodford Equity Income Fund."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Woodford is the former rock star fund manager at Invesco Perpetual.<br \/>\nHe runs the new CF Woodford Equity Fund is the new equity fund that has just launched.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Woodford Funds\" href=\"https:\/\/woodfordfunds.com\/the-woodford-equity-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/woodfordfunds.com\/the-woodford-equity-fund\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>With \u00a31.6bn under management in the CF Woodford Equity Fund its top 10 holdings are:<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca <strong>8.3%<\/strong><br \/>\nGlaxoSmithKline <strong>7.1%<\/strong><br \/>\nBritish American Tobacco <strong>6.2%<\/strong><br \/>\nBT <strong>6%<\/strong><br \/>\nImperial Tobacco <strong>5.3%<\/strong><br \/>\nRoche <strong>3.9%<\/strong><br \/>\nImperial Innovations <strong>3.6%<\/strong><br \/>\nReynolds American <strong>3.6%<\/strong><br \/>\nRolls-Royce <strong>3.5%<\/strong><br \/>\nCapita <strong>3.4%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So with <strong>\u00a31.6bn under management on day one<\/strong> and holding world class companies like <strong>BT and Astra Zeneca<\/strong> on day one, and also very interesting to see Neil backing British start-ups like Imperial College&#8217;s technology spin out Imperial Innovations, a small tech investor that invests in technology companies whose roots are from the University of London&#8217;s science and technology university.<\/p>\n<p>We see that the fund has <strong>6% of its \u00a31.6 Billion in BT plc<\/strong>, the <em><strong>world&#8217;s most dynamic telecoms and media player<\/strong><\/em>, that equates to an <strong>investment of \u00a396 Million into BT<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWith the BT share price at about \u00a33.80 (Fri 11th July) that means the CF Woodford Equity Fund has about 25,263,157 shares in BT, about <strong>25 million shares in the worlds most innovative telecoms company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Woodford backing British Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Woodford is the former rock star fund manager at Invesco Perpetual. He runs the new CF Woodford Equity Fund is the new equity fund that has just launched. [https:\/\/woodfordfunds.com\/the-woodford-equity-fund\/] With \u00a31.6bn under management in the CF Woodford Equity Fund its top 10 holdings are: AstraZeneca 8.3% GlaxoSmithKline 7.1% British American Tobacco 6.2% BT 6% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}