Friday Briefing: What it really cost you to double your money last year

Friday Briefing

Eve Maddock-Jones
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Just 27 funds made money every month in 2023, out of more than 5,000. I’ll let that sink in.

As our glorious leader James Baxter-Derrington penned back in November, timing the market is a hard thing to do, and the best bet for investors is to spend as long as possible in them. I wanted to expand on that and see what the real cost of sticking with your investments was this year, for better or worse. Friday Briefing: I'm not sure this is what Sunak and Hunt had in mind  One of the better parts of January is getting a full year's worth of data on all funds and trusts, allowing you to take a deep dive into their performance statistics. (The little things th...

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