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Sam Ford
Aberforth Partners, Aberforth Unit Trust Mgrs Ltd
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Manager profile
Sam joined Aberforth in August 2019 and became a Partner in May 2021. He is responsible for the following sectors - Aerospace and Defense; Health Care Providers; Media; Medical Equipment and Services; Oil, Gas and Coal; Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology; and Software and Computer Services. Sam has passed all three levels of the CFA programme.
Total return for Sam Ford
Manager career performance
Rolling Alpha Quartile: Discrete three year periods
Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.
 
Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4
 
 
 
 
 
60-96m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
72-108m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
84-120m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
96-132m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
108-144m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Discrete calendar year performance : Sam Ford

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Sam Ford 16.0 3.4 -11.9 49.1 -15.7 10.7 -5.6 12.2 9.9 0.4
Peer Group Composite 23.5 -1.1 -28.3 57.2 -4.7 6.0 -4.5 13.0 11.2 0.4
Over / Under -7.5 4.5 16.4 -8.1 -11.0 4.7 -1.1 -0.8 -1.3 0.0
Performance vs peer group composite: Sam Ford
How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.
 
Overall markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
4 years
out of a possible 10
 
Overall markets
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Underperformed peer group composite
6 years
out of a possible 10
 
Rising markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
2 years
out of a possible 6
 
Falling markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
2 years
out of a possible 4
Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust plc Co-managed IT UK Smaller Companies since Aug 01 2019 to present
Aberforth UK Small Companies Co-managed UT UK Smaller Companies since Aug 01 2019 to present
Aberforth Geared Value & Income Trust PLC Co-managed IT UK Smaller Companies since Jul 01 2024 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust PLC since Aug 01 2019 to Jun 24 2024
M&G Dividend since Feb 01 2015 to May 03 2019
M&G Pan European Dividend since Feb 01 2015 to fund close
M&G UK Income Distribution since Feb 01 2015 to Nov 22 2017
M&G UK Sustain Paris Aligned since Jan 01 2017 to May 03 2019
M&G European Select since Jul 01 2017 to May 03 2019
Alliance Trust Asia Pacific Equity since Oct 01 2010 to Aug 17 2011
M&G (Lux) Pan European Dividend since Dec 07 2018 to May 03 2019
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