Capital Group New Pers (LUX) B (EUR) |



by Stephen Welch

American Funds' parent Capital Group announced that veteran manager Jody Jonsson on American Funds New Perspective will relinquish her role as Capital World Investor subsidiary’s principal investment officer, who is in charge of allocating capital across the subsidiary’s management team, on March 1, 2025. Jonsson will remain as a manager. Barbara Burtin will take over for Jonsson as PIO after serving as a manager on the strategy for more than seven years. Veteran Rob Lovelace remains as the strategy’s lead PIO and PIO of subsidiary Capital International Investors. This move does not alter the strategy's High People rating or its Morningstar Medalist Ratings. |
Capital Group New Perspective (which includes the American Funds US mutual fund and the Luxembourg, Australia, and Japan vehicles) stands out from the pack with a veteran management team, robust analytical support, and proven process focusing on firms benefiting from global trade. The strategy employs a sensible approach focusing on global multinationals that can take advantage of evolving global trade. Capital Group, the parent of American Funds, splits the strategy's hefty $135 billion asset base into individual sleeves among 10 named managers, a handful of undisclosed up-and-comers, and two analyst-run research sleeves. Two principal investment officers help ensure the strategy's sleeves meld together into a diversified global portfolio. The managers run their portions of the overall portfolio as they see fit but must stick to companies that receive at least 25% of their revenues from outside their home region and have at least a $3 billion market-cap float at the time of purchase. This strategy benefits from a stable team of industry experts. Four of its 10 managers have served together since December 2005, with Robert Lovelace (the longest-tenured manager) serving more than 23 years. While veteran manager Jonathan Knowles retired in early 2024, the firm named Anne-Marie Peterson and Kohei Higashi as managers in November 2023. Peterson and Higashi had been managing small portions of the strategy as undisclosed managers for three years each. Behind the management team sits a deep and talented team of more than 100 analysts. The strategy has been incredibly consistent and has typically gotten ahead by protecting capital in down markets. Over the trailing 10 calendar years, the US fund landed in the global large-stock growth Morningstar Category's bottom half only once while placing in the top quartile in five. While the strategy didn’t keep pace with the MSCI ACWI Growth Index in 2023, its trailing five-, 10-, 15-, and 20-year returns through May 2024 all ranked in the category's top third or better. This is a promising global equity option, and there's little reason to believe the strategy can't build on its record. |
Morningstar Pillars | |
People | High |
Parent | High |
Process | Above Average |
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