Increasing risk does not necessarily lead to higher returns in equity funds, according to research conducted by FE comparing vehicles in the Investment Association's UK All Companies sector to their FTSE All-Share benchmark, which found that nearly half of the funds with higher volatility underperformed over three years.
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