Hi guys,
Just wanted any thoughts/opinions on which of these active funds/IT's have worked out really well for you or you would consider adding to your portfolio for 10 years for growth? I would put a lump sum in at the beginning of each tax year and leave it? Any other suggestions? It would be to go alongside a global tracker such as VWRL
* Monks
* JP Morgan Global Growth and Income Trust (JGGI)
* F&C
* Fundsmith
* Templeton Emerging Markets IT
Looking forward to your replies
Mark
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Which active fund/IT would you pick ... ?
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The OP fell foul of the 'edit window' , so the post was a bit confusing!
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Re: Which active fund/IT would you pick ... ?
I've done quite well out of Fundsmith, but then I've done even better out of Smithson, so that probably is at least worthy of consideration.
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I've been keeping tabs on a number of ITs for the last 5 years or so, and Alliance, F&C and Scottish American have all given returns of about 12%, measured by XIRR.
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tjh290633 wrote:I've been keeping tabs on a number of ITs for the last 5 years or so, and Alliance, F&C and Scottish American have all given returns of about 12%, measured by XIRR.
TJH
US stock (total returns/accumulation) over the last 5 years have risen 16.5% annualised in US$ terms, 17.2% in £ terms. Primarily due to the broad index being relatively heavily weighted into tech stocks. Other broader US stock indexes haven't done anywhere near as well. Funds that are weighted more towards that index will naturally also have benefited from having done so.
Alliance F&C is around 55% North America, Scottish American is around 28% US, so (weighted) over 9% of the 12% gain figure might be attributed to that for F&C and 5% for Scottish American. Suggesting that for F&C the 45% rest of portfolio made 6% and for Scottish American the 72% rest made 9.7%. Of the two it seems to me that the Scottish American was the more diversely rewarding whilst F&C is more concentrated and 'got lucky'.
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1nvest wrote:tjh290633 wrote:I've been keeping tabs on a number of ITs for the last 5 years or so, and Alliance, F&C and Scottish American have all given returns of about 12%, measured by XIRR.
TJH
US stock (total returns/accumulation) over the last 5 years have risen 16.5% annualised in US$ terms, 17.2% in £ terms. Primarily due to the broad index being relatively heavily weighted into tech stocks. Other broader US stock indexes haven't done anywhere near as well. Funds that are weighted more towards that index will naturally also have benefited from having done so.
Alliance F&C is around 55% North America, Scottish American is around 28% US, so (weighted) over 9% of the 12% gain figure might be attributed to that for F&C and 5% for Scottish American. Suggesting that for F&C the 45% rest of portfolio made 6% and for Scottish American the 72% rest made 9.7%. Of the two it seems to me that the Scottish American was the more diversely rewarding whilst F&C is more concentrated and 'got lucky'.
This is the point of having an active management. Sometimes they are good, or get lucky
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Re: Which active fund/IT would you pick ... ?
Arborbridge wrote:This is the point of having an active management. Sometimes they are good, or get lucky
Survivorship bias. The lucky ones get a golden bonus and get to continue playing, the unlucky get a golden handshake. A small number, the luckiest of the luckiest are hailed as geniuses and held up as what can be possible. The financial sector piggybacks on such gameplay and extracts enough to be able to build tall skyscrapers in the most expensive of locations and pay massive wages to many ... funded by those that are tempted into the gameplay with their life savings, more often on the pretence that everyone is a winner.
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