IMA figures prove bold institutional buyers beat retail counterparts to short-term gains
Based on IMA sales figures, institutional buyers have been more adventurous than retail investors in recent years, with the latter tending to stick to the more traditional UK All Companies, Equity Income and Corporate Bond sectors. To judge whether institutional or retail fund buyers have been the shrewder investors over recent years, this month's Investment Strategies survey has taken sales figures for the first four months of the year going back to 1998 to ascertain the most popular sectors of the market in terms of net sales. It then looks at subsequent returns from the most popular...
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