As 2020 proved, anything can happen, in the investment world and beyond.
With the pandemic still sadly going strong, markets could be just as volatile and full of surprises - good and bad - this year too.
Fund ratings agency FundCalibre has identified 12 funds and investment trusts to watch in 2021. They include funds which shot the lights out in 2020, such as Scottish Mortgage, as well as those that suffered like a Latin American and Uk equity fund, or those that announced key manager changes or have milestone third anniversaries pending in the next 12 months.
Fund ratings agency FundCalibre has identified 12 funds to watch in 2021
My father used to ‘play the stock market’.
He folded the profits from his small business in the 1970s into company shares, some of which came as recommendations from his stockbroker, over the bakelite telephone with a twisted brown cord.
He added to this substantially with the big privatisations of the 1980s, and left a decent sum to my mum when he died in 1997. She fortunately sold the portfolio before the stock market went down the pan at the turn of the millennium.
What was left of that money came to me and my brother early in 2020 - a modest sum, nowhere near life-changing. So what better to do with it, than invest?
Confessions of an Impulsive Investor: I put my inheritance into a magpie Isa of specialist investment trusts and snazzy ETFs, and it s up 20% - so far. Adrian Lowery for Thisismoney.co.uk
My father used to ‘play the stock market’.
He folded the profits from his small business in the 1970s into company shares, some of which came as recommendations from his stockbroker, over the bakelite telephone with a twisted brown cord.
He added to this substantially with the big privatisations of the 1980s, and left a decent sum to my mum when he died in 1997. She fortunately sold the portfolio before the stock market went down the pan at the turn of the millennium.