pslewis

You scared the pants off me!!!!!

I never miss a trick normally ........ so was thinking my old age had creapt up on me and turned me into a Financial Numptie

RESSE

iTrader: (1)

Many different "sectors" available - here are some of the main contenders:

Global Dynamic
Global Emerging Markets Flexible
Asset Allocation UK Dynamic
Asset Allocation UK Flexible
Equity Africa
Equity Asia Pacific
Equity Asia Pacific exlcuding Japan
Equity BRIC
Equity China
Equity Euroland
Equity Europe
Equity Europe excluding UK
Equity Germany
Equity Global
Equity Global Emerging Markets
Equity India
Equity Japan
Equity Korea
Equity Latin America
Equity Russia & CIS
Equity UK
Equity UK Income
Sector Real Estate UK
Sector Health
Sector Finance

On and on the list goes - check out a copy of Money Management Magazine in W H Smiths - the magazine (FT Business) analyse the performance of over 2,000 funds each month, and you can see the performance for each fund, over 1 2 3 5 and 10 years against the average for their particular sector.

Excellent source of factual information.

john banks

Why avoid Japan? I think it is rather good value at present. India and China are performing similar badly recently. How likely do you think it is that Japan is in bubble territory compared with China? Africa is I feel too risky.

I've been buying Brazil, gold, oil recently. Last year I bought Japan and so far am sitting on a loss, although not nearly as bad when valued in GBP due to its weakness.