What were the best and worst-performing funds over 10 years of QE?

A decade of fiscal stimulus

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Today marks exactly 10 years to the day since the Bank of England introduced ultra-loose monetary policies - namely quantitative easing and 0.5% interest rates - to the UK economy.

Over the past decade to the end of February 2019, the FTSE All Share index has returned 189.10%, meaning those tracking the index over this time frame would have almost tripled the original value of their invested capital. That said, had an investor bought and sold a FTSE All-Share tracker at the worst possible times over the last decade, they could have lost 16.32% of their money. In this gallery, Professional Adviser's sister title Investment Week looks at the UK equity funds to have best navigated the last ten years of loose monetary policy, as well as those that have struggled the...

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