As a father to six children, Adrian Frost, 51, never knows what he's doing from one weekend to the next. "But I wouldn't have the audacity to naff off for eight hours on a Saturday." As such, says the manager of Artemis Income Fund, "I'm bad at golf".
Luckily, he's much better at picking stocks his fund yields 6.2% and is down a respectable 23.1% against a 30.9% drop for the FTSE All-Share over 12 months. But before income and equity funds can rebound, he reckons the corporate bond market has to recover. And that could happen sooner than you think.
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Artemis Income Fund top ten holdings
| Name of holding | % of assets |
| Royal Dutch Shell B Ord | 6.10 |
| BP | 5.70 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 5.40 |
| AstraZeneca Plc | 5.00 |
| Vodafone Group | 4.90 |
| Centrica | 4.20 |
| RWE AG (NEU) | 3.90 |
| National Grid | 3.70 |
| Koninklijke Kpn NV | 3.20 |
| HSBC Holdings | 3.20 |
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