The stock market falls in February and March were so fast and so deep that Hugh Sergeant, manager of ES R&M UK Recovery fund, says this is the best opportunity to buy value stocks in his 30-year career – the key is simply to work out which companies can survive. In this podcast he tells us about new holdings he has bought including WH Smith, ASOS, Next and Autotrader, and reveals why he thinks UK smaller companies in particular are so unloved.

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