Three stars of a rollercoaster year

Ruli Viljoen, head of investment research at OBSR, looks back at this year's key trends and reveals three of the best-selling funds of 2011.

The year has not quite played out and there is every possibility that any number of scenarios could still unfold, particularly with so many questions still hanging over the macroeconomic outlook, not only in Europe, but further afield too. I was struck by just how eventful a year it has been when reading a recent article produced by Stewart Cowley, head of fixed income and manager of the Old Mutual Global Strategic Bond fund. I quote: “We have all been mesmerised by a year that has successively thrown at us Australian floods, New Zealand earthquakes, a Japanese tsunami, the Arab Sprin...