Forty-five managers have made it into the 2016 FE Hall of Fame, meaning they have been rated as FE Alpha Managers for at least seven years, with 28 managing to achieve the highly coveted FE Alpha Manager rating eight years in a row – since the rating launched in 2009.
The past several years have seen markets experience increased volatility brought on by the financial crisis as well as macro-political events which have resulted in many asset managers losing their conviction – thus making this year’s Hall of Fame managers even more noteworthy for their ability to achieve consistently outstanding returns over this period.
Among the managers in the 2016 FE Hall of Fame are veteran emerging markets managers Angus Tulloch and Martin Lau – both underlining their ability to ignore the noise and withstand increased volatility – star UK equity income manager Neil Woodford, and Mark Slater, manager of the MFM Slater Growth and MFM Slater Recovery funds.
Other star managers to make the grade include M&G bond guru Richard Woolnough, Schroders’ Andy Brough and Jenny Jones, and Standard Life’s Harry Nimmo.
Fund managers are judged according to their track records since 2000, with extra weighting for managers with the longest track records to highlight the benefits of experience. The rating is based on three components: risk-adjusted alpha; consistency of outperformance versus their benchmark; and outperformance in both up and down markets.
Overall, 189 fund managers were awarded an FE Alpha Manager Rating in the 2016 rebalance. Forty-seven managers achieved the accolade for the first time this year, and 12 women were named FE Alpha Managers.
2016 FE Hall of Fame Managers
Barry Norris. Argonaut Capital Partners. FE Alpha Manager 8 times. >
< Christopher Metcalfe. BNY Mellon. FE Alpha Manager 7 times.
Robert Hay. BNY Mellon. FE Alpha Manager 7 times. > 
< Mary McBain. CF Ruffer Investment Mgmt Ltd. FE Alpha Manager 7 times.
Steve Russell. CF Ruffer Investment Mgmt Ltd. FE Alpha Manager 7 times. >
< Richard Pease. CRUX Asset Management Limited. FE Alpha Manager 8 times.
Simon Knott. Discretionary Unit Fund Mgrs Ltd. FE ALpha Manager 7 times. >
< Robin Hepworth, EdenTree Investment Management. FE Alpha Manager 8 times.
Ian Spreadbury. Fidelity. FE Alpha Manager 8 times. >
< Leigh Himsworth. Fidelity. FE Alpha Manager 8 times.
Ian Fishwick. Fidelity. FE Alpha Manager 7 times. >
< Jeremy Podger. Fidelity. FE Alpha Manager 7 times.
Martin Lau. First State. FE Alpha Manager 8 times. >
< Ben Russon. Franklin Templeton Funds. FE ALpha Manager 8 times.
Paul Spencer. Franklin Templeton Funds. FE Alpha Manager 7 times. >
< Andrew Green. GAM Fund Management Ltd. *Fe ALpha Manager 8 times.
Gordon Grender. GAM Fund Management Ltd. FE ALpha Manager 8 times. >
< Bill McQuaker. Henderson Global Investors Ltd. FE Alpha Manager 7 times.
John Wood. JO Hambro Capital Management. FE Alpha Manager 8 tmes. >
< Algy Smith-Maxwell. Jupiter Asset Management. FE ALpha Manager 8 times.
John Chatfeild-Roberts. Jupiter Asset Management. FE Alpha Manager 8 times. >
< Alexander Darwall. Jupiter Asset Management. FE Alpha Manager 7 times.
Guy de Blonay. Jupiter Asset Management. FE Alpha Manager 7 times. >
< Stephen Bailey. Liontrust Fund Partners LLP. FE ALpha Manager 8 times.
Jan Luthman. Liontrust Fund Partners LLP. FE ALpha Manager 8 times. >
< Julian Fosh. Liontrust Fund Partners LLP. FE ALpha Manager 7 times.
Richard Woolnough. M&G. FE ALpha Manager 8 times. >
< Jamie Hamilton. M&G. FE Alpha Manager 7 times.
Giles Hargreave. Marlborough Fund Managers. FE Alpha Manager 8 times. >
< Victor Wood. McInroy & Wood Portfolios Ltd. FE Alpha Managers 8 times.
Mark Slater. MFM. FE LApha Manager 8 times. >
< Rob Burnett. Neptune Investment Management. FE ALpha Manager 8 times.
Crispin Odey. Odey Asset Management. Fe ALpha Manager 8 times.>
< Daniel Nickols. Old Mutl Glbl Investors(UK)Ltd. Fe ALpha Manager 8 times.
Andrew Holliman. Polar capital. FE ALpha Manager 7 times. >
< James Thomson. Rathbone Unit Trust Mgmt Ltd. Fe Alpha Manager 7 times.
Daniel Hanbury. River & Mercantile Asset Mgmt. FE Alpha Manager 7 times. >
< Andrew Bough. Schroders. FE Alpha Manager 8 times.
Jenny Jones. Schroders. FE ALpha Manager 8 times. >
< Harry Nimmo. Standard life Investments. FE Alpha manager 8 times.
Angus Tulloch. Stewert Investors. FE Alpha Manager 8 times. >
< David Dudding. Threadneedle. FE ALpha Manager 8 times.
Philip Dicken. Threadneedle. FE ALpha Manager 8 times. >
< Leigh Harrison, Threadneedle. FE ALpha Manager 7 times.
Neil Woodford. Woodford Investment Management. FE Alpha Manager 8 times. >
