Millwallawayveteran1988
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My Pension fund will end around 7% up for the year I think. It was hammered in March as I was overweight in Mid250 stock following the election result. I sold out of those and bought into tech heavy global funds and that helped it recover a lot (Up 40% since March low)At year end the FTSE-100 is down 15% on the year, the FTSE-250 mid cap index is down 7.3% and the FT All Share is down 13.2%. On the other hand the Dow, S&P 500, Japanese Nikkei and German DAX are all up.
Who’s managed to beat the markets?
I’m quite pleased that my UK shares are up about 5% with some purchases in March and green energy shares bought last year more than offsetting losses in FTSE100 companies like BP, BT etc.
Funds have done well especially US and Asian ones.
So overall not a bad year considering.
I was looking at funds earlier and the best over the 12 months was
Baillie Gifford American - 121.7% up.
The worst
Guinness Global Energy - 36% down.
I have neither of these. I wish I had the BG American one though. I know some people on here do. Good choice!!!
I’m currently changing the weighting’s of mine. Increasing UK, Japan, Emerging Markets and Europe.
Time will tell if that’s a good decision or not!!
Much will depend on successful vaccine roll out I think now.