Market returns low in Q1

By Mohamed Ali Bernat Research from Close Fund Management has shown that first quarter returns have been significantly better for investments started at the end of the preceding year than those started between January and March. According to the research, an investor who bought into the UK All Companies Sector in the fourth quarter of 1999 would have returns of 6.75% by the end of the year, compared with 1.47% for the first quarter of 2000. The margin is narrower for investors in the FTSE 100 Index, with a difference of just 0.03%, but investors in the Techmark index have seen widely di...