Winning ways

The year 2003 was one of recovery from one of the most severe bear markets of all time. But the euphoric shout that accompanied last year's bounce has fallen into a slightly depressed sigh. Fund managers, as usual, have on the whole been unable to do much but track the performance of the market. However, there are exceptions and this year we have invited Standard & Poor's to provide their analysis of the top 12-month performers of the biggest nine sectors in their offshore and international databases, giving their expert overview on economic and market activity within each sector as well...