Finding your niche

For a year which has seen unprecedented growth in the number of funds available, the area of niche investing remains stubbornly elusive. For years, the term has baffled and confounded financial planners and stock pickers alike, with new definitions emerging only to be supplanted by the next as investments change shape or enter the mainstream. For Robert Lockie, a certified financial planner at London-based IFA firm Bloomsbury Financial Planning, the definition of niche, or exotic, investments is a subjective one. “What is one man’s view of what is exotic is not necessarily someone els...