Why you should ditch the second home and invest in shares

Research from broker Bestinvest has revealed in the last quarter of a century, those investors who bought the FTSE All Share index - or just the FTSE 100 - and reinvested the dividends, achieved a return of over 1000%. Figures provided by Lipper showed an investor buying into the FTSE All Share at the start of 1986 would have seen return of 1110%, while those buying just the FTSE 100 would have made 1165%. The growth assumes dividends were reinvested, and dividends made up the vast majority of the returns, supporting the argument that shareholders should opt to reinvest income rather ...