Investor uncertainty highlights need for advice

The survey of more than 2,000 investors’ predictions of asset class performance reveals nearly half of respondents (49%) do not know which asset class will perform best in 2006. A further 24.1% of respondents think buy-to-let residential property will be the best performing asset class, while 10.2% opt for commercial property, 5.1% for UK equities, 4.6% for global equities, 3.7% for cash and 3.2% for bonds. But a ranking of how each asset class performed in 2005 reveals global equities were the top performer with 23% of the total returns, followed by UK equities with 22% of returns and ...