Post-financial crisis: Where did your money work the hardest?
8 Aug 17
This Wednesday (9 August) marks 10 years since the global financial crisis began, the morning BNP Paribas finally halted redemptions from funds containing now-infamous CDO instruments. We take a look at six sectors to see where you would have been best placed to invest in the decade that followed.
Europe has been put on the back burner by investors for most of the period post-crisis, with Greece in trouble, the banking system under strain and growth across the continent sluggish.
It is only this year that mainsteam investors have begun to look at funds in the Europe ex UK sector in any seriousness, but it returned 93.27% over 10 years.
Stonehage Fleming’s European All Cap Equity was by far the top performing fund during the decade judged by its 245.34% return over the period, 152% more than the sector average
BlackRock’s European Dynamic Fund also impressed with returns of 233.08% and Man GLG’s Continental European Growth Fund with 221.03%.
Down the scale, the Scottish Widows European Select Growth fund returned just 49.72% and the Barclays ex UK Alpha Fund fared little better with returns of 53.14%.
