The sectors which returned over 200% in the last decade

It has been a monumental ten years for equity and bond markets, with the euphoria of the first half matched by the despair seen on the faces of traders in the second half, after one of the worst financial meltdowns ever seen.

With steep rises in stocks from 2002 until 2007, most investors were wholly unprepared for the sudden and shocking falls we would witness in 2008. Today the financial system remains constricted around the world, as banks rush to unwind over-stretched balance sheets, and economies contract in the face of a potential slowdown in China and the US. Investors, battered for the last four years by equity markets, have rushed into bonds in ever greater numbers in the ongoing search for returns, while everyone has got used to the idea you cannot get 5% on cash anymore. But where, if you had...