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Market Comment - January '17

January 2017

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

If you just look at the growth in a range of stock market indices for 2016, you might get the impression it was an easy year to make money.  It wasn’t. The FTSE Small Cap index is up 12%, which is respectable. The average fund specialising in this sector was up just 8%, hinting at underlying problems. This is given greater clarity when you consider the dispersion of returns – the best small cap fund was up 32%, and the worst down 5%.There was volatility early on in the year, around the time of the Brexit vote, and again with the Trump election.  These were not helpful (and will certainly have triggered some bad investor decisions) but they were not the problem. The problem was a switch to a new environment, wh ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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