Revealed: Top selling funds and biggest losers in 2011

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Asset managers have struggled to keep investors on board in the face of 2011's extreme market volatility, which has hit short-term performance on many funds.

In terms of inflows, the big winners to emerge this year are absolute-return style strategies which have proven attractive to investors seeking safe havens and capital protection. The popularity of Standard Life Investments' Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund has grown throughout the year, with the fund perceived as a harbour in challenging markets. Euan Munro and team's multi-asset fund has returned 32.3% in the three years since the credit crunch and produced a positive return of 0.7% over the past year, beating the majority of absolute return funds which posted losses. ...

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