Best and worst-performing funds over ten years of QE

A decade of fiscal stimulus

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Today marks exactly ten years to the day since the Bank of England introduced ultra-loose monetary policies - namely quantitative easing and 0.5% interest rates - to the UK economy.

Today marks exactly ten years to the day since the Bank of England introduced ultra-loose monetary policies - namely quantitative easing (QE) and 0.5% interest rates - to the UK economy.  Over the past decade to the end of February 2019, the FTSE All Share index has returned 189.10%, meaning those tracking the index over this time frame would have almost tripled the original value of their invested capital. That said, had an investor bought and sold a FTSE All-Share tracker at the worst possible times over the last decade, they could have lost 16.32% of their money. In this gallery...

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