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By Richard Milne
Published: February 16 2011 18:07 | Last updated: February 16 2011 18:07
Look back at asset returns for 2010 as a whole and investors look to have had it easy. Equities, bonds and commodities all did well, with the S&P 500 returning 15 per cent, corporate bonds 9 and gold 27 per cent.
But delve a little deeper and the job of making a decent return was much trickier. Huge swings in prices during the year meant that investors caught on the wrong side of a trade in a month such as May, when the eurozone debt crisis erupted, struggled. High correlation between companies' share prices hurt stockpickers.
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