Asia and smaller companies bear fruit in 2017

Funds exposed to Asia and smaller companies produced the best returns for investors in 2017, according to Shore Financial.

Asia and smaller companies bear fruit in 2017
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Bottom of the pile

At the opposite end of the spectrum, the worst-performing fund list was dominated by energy and gold funds (see chart below).

The bottom 10 included Investec Global Energy (-13.05%), Charteris Precious Gold and Metals (-12.46%), Smith and Williamson Global Gold & Resources (-11.55%), MFM Junior Gold (-8.89% ) and MFM Junior Oils (-7.94%).

The freshly-closed Manek Growth fund was the worst returning for the year with -23.03%.

Source: FE

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