Listening to a number of fund managers yesterday, talk about how they pick investments was uncannily like hearing gamblers describe how they analyse form for the runners at the 2.30 at Kempton; or, worse still, the choice of numbers on the roulette table. Cynical? Moi? Yes, about making things too complicated, trying to look clever and beat the markets in the short term. My view has always been that a boring but well-managed managed fund will always be fine if you hang on in there. If it’s not rocket science, don’t use a quadratic equation to solve it.
“Platforms call for UK government to resist launching ‘retrograde’ British ISAs”
There is a school of thought which might say that, should you wish to revive and encourage investment in the UK Stockmarket, a starting point might be the reversal of Brexit.