Paul Angell is AJ Bell's Head of Investment Research. Paul began his investment career with a global investment bank in 2010, holding various roles across London and Hong Kong over the following years. In 2016, Paul then joined a UK-based investment consultancy business. Here, he was responsible for selecting investment strategies across asset classes to support the firm’s £2.5 billion managed portfolio service, as well as numerous external clients.
Paul joined AJ Bell in 2023 to lead the firm’s investment research offering, ensuring that clients across the business have a great selection of investment options to work with.
20 March 2025
The changes we've made to the Favourite funds listWe keep our Favourite funds list under constant review to ensure we have the highest conviction in the funds we’ve selected. Following a recent review, we’ve added the Schroder Asian Alpha Plus fund and removed the Fidelity Asia and Schroder European funds.
In Asia, we’ve chosen to add the Schroder Asian Alpha Plus fund because of its strong...
20 January 2025
AJ Bell Favourite Funds list updateThe AJ Bell Favourite funds list is designed to lighten your research load.
There are thousands of funds out there – so we’ve narrowed the field by selecting a high-quality shortlist that we believe can deliver on their objectives over the long term. To make the list, each fund needs to pass our robust, independent selection process.
What have we...
10 January 2025
AJ Bell Investment Trust Select list updateThe AJ Bell IT Select list is designed to lighten your research load. There are many trusts out there – so we’ve narrowed the field by selecting a shortlist of trusts we believe can deliver their objectives over the long term. To make the list, each trust needs to pass our robust, independent selection process.
What have we changed?We keep our IT...
16 October 2024
Favourite funds update - 16 October 2024The AJ Bell Favourite funds list is designed to lighten your research load.
There are thousands of funds out there – so we’ve narrowed the field by selecting a high-quality shortlist of funds we believe can deliver their objectives over the long term. To make the list, each fund needs to pass our robust, independent selection process.
What have we...
30 September 2024
Starter portfolios update - 30 September 2024We recently carried out an in-depth review of our Starter portfolios. As a result, we’ve made them both simpler and lower cost for new investors.
Let’s start with the simpler approach. Each portfolio is now spread across two types of investments: global shares and global bonds. These are large, easily traded markets that have worked well together...
16 August 2024
Favourite funds update - 16 August 2024The AJ Bell Favourite funds list is designed to lighten your research load. There are thousands of funds out there – so we’ve narrowed the field by selecting a high-quality shortlist of funds we believe can deliver their objectives over the long term. To make the list, each fund needs to pass our robust, independent selection process.
What have we...
14 August 2024
Three rising star fund managers to look out forGenuine rising stars in fund management are a rare breed. Investors typically focus on experience and long-term performance track records, making appointing junior fund managers a risk to asset managers. On top of this, asset managers continue to attempt to move beyond the era of star managers, preferring to focus on investment teams and processes...
25 July 2024
Star manager down: what happens when a fund manager leaves or retires?While the concept of ‘star managers’ may have lost some momentum in recent years, there are still plenty of funds that have key person risk.
This year alone we've seen two clear examples in the announced departures of Ben Whitmore from the Jupiter UK Special Situations fund and Mike Riddell from the Allianz Strategic Bond fund.
The commonality was...
9 May 2024
Favourite funds update - May 2024The AJ Bell Favourite funds list is designed to lighten your research load. There are thousands of funds out there – so we’ve narrowed the field by selecting a high-quality shortlist of funds we believe can deliver their objectives over the long term. To make the list, each fund needs to pass our robust, independent selection process.
What have we...
18 April 2024
Favourite funds update - April 2024The AJ Bell Favourite funds list is designed to lighten your research load. There are thousands of funds out there – so we’ve narrowed the field by selecting a high-quality shortlist of funds we believe can deliver their objectives over the long term. To make the list, each fund needs to pass our robust, independent selection process.
What have we...
