Investment: OBSR's top UK fund picks

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OBSR'S Ruli Viljoen scrutinises the top funds in the UK All Companies sector.

With 18.6% of funds under management (FUM) of the IMA sectors, the UK All Companies still dominates the landscape. If to this figure we add in UK Equity Income and UK Smaller Companies too, the FUM increases to 29.2%. However this masks a rapidly changing landscape as the UK All Companies sector also represented the worst selling sector in net retail sales terms in five calendar months in 2010. Conversely FUM in the Global Sector would appear to be on the rise, increasing from 6.3% at the end of 2005 to 7.8% at the end of 2010 and representing the best selling sector in December 2010. ...

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