Easter Gallery Series: Which funds have been the best 'nest eggs' for UK investors?

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Laura Dew
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Kicking off Investment Week's Easter Gallery Series, Laura Dew explores which funds have been the best 'nest eggs' for investors, returning the most over the past ten years.

Investment Week explores which funds have been the best 'nest eggs' for investors, returning the most over the past ten years.  In a world focused on short-term returns, investors sometimes need to be reminded to have a 'buy and hold' mentality. For patient investors, holding any of these funds for the past ten years would have led to returns of up to 700%.  The funds are often specialised in certain areas with strong returns coming from mandates focused on biotechnology, technology and smaller companies.  Source: FE. Data to 19 March 2018  

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