Morningstar OBSR: Five top-performing UK funds weathering the storm

Morningstar OBSR investment research analyst Richard Whitehall looks at which UK All Companies funds have managed to overcome the recent turbulent market conditions.

The past 17 months have provided a challenging environment for investing in UK-listed equities. From April 2009 to the end of 2010 the FTSE All-Share index rose by 32.62% providing some consolation to investors who had stayed with the asset class following the huge sell-off in 2008 through to early 2009 when the index fell by 36.29%. However, in 2011 as concerns over the global economic recovery surfaced and the eurozone sovereign debt crisis spread from the periphery to Italy and Spain, equity markets faltered, with short-term performance being driven even more strongly by investor...