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Alan Birtwistle is considering becoming a landlord for the first time
Credit: JULIAN SIMMONDS
Landlords have been ditching properties in their droves after changes to taxation, a ban on evictions and ever-increasing regulation.
Many have sold up as house prices soared amid demand for bigger homes. Despite all this, Alan Birtwistle is considering becoming a landlord for the first time.
Mr Birtwistle, 56, recently extinguished a 29-year career as a fireman, retiring in 2019. He now lives and works at a campsite near Orpington in Kent during the summer and wants to escape to the Canary Islands during the winter.
After a divorce in March last year, he has £280,000 in bank accounts, earning little or no interest, and no property. “I chose not to buy a home so I could travel,” he said.
Evenlode branches out from income stable with global equity fund launch
‘The concise investment style should provide a high degree of active share’
Evenlode’s decision to branch out from equity income funds has been hailed as a “natural step” in the boutique’s trajectory.
On Tuesday the firm revealed it would be launching Evenlode Global Equity for UK investors. The fund, which will be co-managed by Chris Elliott and James Knoedler (pictured), will take a bottom-up concentrated approach, holding between 30 and 50 companies in the portfolio over long periods.
The strategy employs the same process and philosophy as the £925m Evenlode Global Income fund, which Elliott works on with lead manager Ben Peters, but is not constrained by having to maintain a level of dividend payments.