The best ways to play the UK recovery

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We ask fund managers which sectors they think will perform well as the UK economy starts to improve.

As signs start to point towards a recovery in the UK economy, investor attention has turned back to domestic companies. Indeed, the most popular sectors among investors for the first seven months of this year have been mainly UK sectors with banks (46%), resources (31%) and telecoms (8.6%) seeing the most inflows, according to statistics from investment platform TD Direct Investing.  We ask a group of fund managers which sectors look set to perform well as the state of the economy improves...

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